| Winston Smith | 21 Jun 2015 2:32 p.m. PST |
May I suggests "Great Catherine", featuring Jeanne Moreau as Herself and Peter O'Toole playing his usual madman.
In one scene they wargame Bunker Hill in her apartments. Sensing she is losing, she wades out to sink the British frigate that is raking the Patriot lines. "Mar'm, you sank my battleship!" Suggest others. |
 20thmaine  | 21 Jun 2015 2:59 p.m. PST |
Callan (aka Red File for Callan). It's (another) remake of the original Wednesday Play that spawned the TV series, so Callan and Schneider steal Peter Gilder's wargames setup for Gettysburg…. From 1hour 24min in : YouTube link |
| wrgmr1 | 21 Jun 2015 3:00 p.m. PST |
All of my 28mm ACW figures were used in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Two".
It was filmed here in Vancouver. |
| Wackmole9 | 21 Jun 2015 3:20 p.m. PST |
James Bond the living daylight. Joe Don Baker as Brad Whitaker: An American arms dealer and self-styled general.
had a huge miniature layout of gettysburg & Waterloo |
| TNE2300 | 21 Jun 2015 3:50 p.m. PST |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Scrumptious and the Grandfather
play toy soldiers (little wars?) at the end |
| Dynaman8789 | 21 Jun 2015 4:46 p.m. PST |
The Living Daylights also had the famous line "He met his Waterloo". The Final Countdown – features a shot where sailors are playing Squad Leader. "Wargames", of course, "Would you like to play a game…" |
| bandit86 | 21 Jun 2015 4:50 p.m. PST |
Murder at 1600 has I believe a civil ar layout at the beginning |
| darthfozzywig | 21 Jun 2015 5:08 p.m. PST |
40-Year-Old Virgin has Steve Carell's character painting up minis. |
| Chris Palmer | 21 Jun 2015 5:39 p.m. PST |
In E.T. They play a D&D-like RPG at the kitchen table |
| Stryderg | 21 Jun 2015 6:16 p.m. PST |
The General's Daughter has the general touching up a ACW mini. |
| EHeise | 21 Jun 2015 6:26 p.m. PST |
Bandit you are correct. I think it was Wesley Snipes character who was recreating Gettysburg layout. in the movie one of the figures were crushed and thats how he knew someone had been in his apartment. IIRC |
| dBerczerk | 21 Jun 2015 6:37 p.m. PST |
The 1977 version of "The Four Feathers" had a great opening sequence featuring beautifully-painted Napoleonic figures. I credit the first two minutes of this movie, more than any other factor, as the major impetus getting me into this hobby. link The actual movie is not bad, but the opening credits are the greatest movie introduction I have ever seen! |
| GypsyComet | 21 Jun 2015 9:48 p.m. PST |
Jean Reno's mentor/ex-co-worker in "Ronin" has a large scale depiction of the 47 Ronin he is working on, though it is not clear whether it is just a diorama or meant to be used. |
combatpainter  | 22 Jun 2015 2:03 a.m. PST |
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| Bob the Temple Builder | 22 Jun 2015 3:11 a.m. PST |
Follow this link to see my contribution to this topic = link dBerczek, the figures used in that opening sequence of THE FOUR FEATHERS belonged to one Eric Knowles, who used to own a wargames shop in East London many years ago. I later bought some of those figures from him, and owned them for quite a few years before selling them on to another wargamer. |
| Martin Rapier | 22 Jun 2015 5:51 a.m. PST |
The recent TV series '1864' featured Bismark and von Moltke the Elder playing with metal toy soldiers on the floor in an HG Wellsian manner. Similar things took place in 'Young Winston'. 'The Sum of All Fears' starts with a WW3 training simulation committee game. The last episode of 'Blackadder Goes Forth' has Haig playing with toy soldiers on his map and sweeping most of them into a waste basket. |
| Tom Reed | 22 Jun 2015 7:19 a.m. PST |
In the movie "Stripes" with Bill Murray the captain is playing with toy soldiers on his desk when his aide comes in. |
| John Treadaway | 22 Jun 2015 7:21 a.m. PST |
New Tricks (BBC TV series with old coppers investigating cold cases) series 3 episode 8. Had the SL Warlords (including me) on and off throughout the whole show with big wargames layouts. Sadly (but not surprisingly) the only youtube version if a 'view it through a letterbox' style YouTube link which makes watching it quite hard! John T |
| DisasterWargamer | 22 Jun 2015 8:10 a.m. PST |
Girls Just Want to have Fun has a scene with her father working over a wargame table or scene While not a movie – this Columbo episode starts with Civil War miniatures and has a table as a central prop along with the miniatures YouTube link |
| Winston Smith | 22 Jun 2015 11:21 a.m. PST |
Did you notice how many of them are not actually "gaming"?
They just want to have a large diorama of Gettysburg or Waterloo to show someone is nuts. |
| Cerdic | 22 Jun 2015 11:36 a.m. PST |
…or a virgin, apparently! |
| willthepiper | 22 Jun 2015 12:32 p.m. PST |
In Season 2 of House of Cards (the US version), Frank starts obssessing about an ancestor who was killed in the ACW at Spotsylvania. He's been collecting and painting what look like 54 mm figures, but it seems more that he's building a diorama of the battle rather than getting ready for wargaming. We're only half way through the season so I don't know where they're going with this yet. He also met up with ACW re-enactors this season as well. BTW, Mrs Underwood's comments on Frank's toy soldier: "an improvement on the video games!" |
| willthepiper | 22 Jun 2015 12:41 p.m. PST |
Does Chess count? There's The Three Musketeers where Charlton Heston as the Cardinal disrupts the King's chess match (the one with dogs representing the chess pieces). |
| Bunkermeister | 22 Jun 2015 10:40 p.m. PST |
A CSI episode had a Civil War re-inactor who had ACW troops and I think I remember he was a wargamer. Dead Like Me character Rube has a display box with ACW figures in it. Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog |
| Olaf 03 | 23 Jun 2015 10:41 a.m. PST |
There was at least one episode of Magnum PI where Higgins had out a collection of wargaming figures (I think they were Napoleonic) |
