There’s always the Opium War — but that didn’t really have a happy ending for anyone except the opium merchants.
Then there’s the Cola Wars…
The Battle of Sterling Bridge. Perhaps this time, they could actually film it on a bridge?
Bannockburn, too.
The Great Northern War. Peter the Great of Russia, vs. Charles XII of Sweden.
Perhaps someone should finish the Ivan the Terrible trilogy.
The voyage of the SMS Seeadler, one of the last sailing ships used in combat (as a merchant raider, in WWI!), would be awesome. Facinating story, and a facinating commander. Relatively bloodless, too.
The WWI Zeppelin raids—in particular the raid of L13 on Sept. 8, 1915—would be a real treat, if done right. Maybe they could get Paul Roland to do the soundtrack.
Personally I think Great Big Battles tend to make lousy war movies - you can’t connect with individuals or mentally keep track of the action if the scale is too big.
I think the raids on Zeebrugge and St Nazaire (particularly the latter) would make for awesome big-budget action movies.
Oh, yeah, the HMS Campbeltown explosion! Plucky Brits and blundering Nazis. That would make for a great movie.
Yes!
Of course, a lot of the attacks on the Tirpitz would be good, too. Esp. Operation Source.
For low comedy - how’s about the story of Tirpitz, himself?
The Battle of Bir Hacheim.
The French Foreign Legion holding off the Afrika Korps during the disastrous (for the Allies) Battle of Gazala.
Rommel, ordered to shoot all the German Legionaires, reported to Berlin (deliberately) that there were no Germans fighting with the FFL.
Some excellent and most worthy ideas here!
Now, if only we could find a way of getting them made…
This would be the problem with Trafalgar. It was several smaller engagements of ships that would be largely indistinguishable to the modern eye. The pivotal dramatic tension had to do with whether the farthest flotilla of Continental ships would turn around and join the battle; happily for the British but unhappily for moviemakers, it did not.
There would be some crashing action-movie scenes of cannons knocking down masts, and sailors dying in hideous bloody ways. Of course, Jerry Bruckheimer would insist on changing Nelson’s dying words from “Kiss me, Hardy” to “Kick some ass!”
I’d say go for the very earliest battle for which we have an account - the Battle of Kadesh, the grand clash between the Egyptians and the Hittites. Both sides claimed victory!
Features - a dramatic spy story (spies mislead Ramses as to where the Hittites were), an ambush (by those same Hittites), a dramatic clash of chariots, Ramses surrounded by triumphant Hittite soldiers, Ramses personally fighting his way clear (at least according to the official Egyptian version), Ramses leading the counter-charge, the Hittites now caught by surprise as their soldiers had scattered to loot the Egyptian camp … and a bloody battle.
All ending, finally, with a marriage - of Ramses to a Hittite princess.
Great. Mud. Lots and lots of mud. But if any one battle has captured all that was stupid and wasteful about WWI, it was Passchendaele.
Kadesh? Great! Who should play Priam? 'Cuz if the Hittites were there he would’ve had to go with a bunch of Trojans.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a movie about the battle of Crecy. Should be sufficiently gory, with heroic, outnumbered Englishmen defeating the French aristocrats in a properly disrespectful manner. Not much room for romance, though.
There’s got to be a decent war movie to be found in Swedish history, but I can’t really think of one. The death of king Charles XII, maybe?
The Battle of Lund in 1676. Finally ended the Danish menace in Sweden 
It’s got everything, miscomunication, foggy battlefield, loads of gore and finally Charles XI (the Swedish King) making a decisive impact!
I’d watch it.
I am still waiting for the Battle of Pelennor Fields to be properly filmed. 