Some people (nominators) need to get out more. No Little Big Horn???? Nevsky? What about Charlton Heston as "Andy by-God JAckson!" and Yul Brynner as Jean Lafitte at New Orleans? Hardly "Never Told"
Pirates of the Caribean? Are you serious?
Instead of my usual movie economics lesson, I will explain my votes, and why I think Horrywood could take a stab at them and make money.
Justinian and Belisarius. So-so, but throw in Theodora as written up in Procopius' "Secret History", and you have a winner. Demi Moore, of course. Perversions, perversins, perversions!
Oliver Wiswell would pander to the cynics in Horrywood who hate America, and would show the Loyalists/Tories as Good Guys. It would go totally beyond Roberts, of course, and put Gibson's Tavington in a blue coat.
It would be totally overdone, and make as little money as the Horrywood anti-Iraq War movies, which uniformly tanked. I would want it done right, of course, and would leave the theatre bitterly disappointed, like a true wargamer.
PA National Guard in the Ardennes would pander to the other side of Hollywood, the ones who make "We Were Soldiers", Saving Private Ryan, and Flags of our Fathers. There are still enough people who want to see movies with the Yanks as Good Guys, and the 28th was certainly heroic! How about "The Bloody Buckets" as a working title?
Pennamite Yankee wars wouild show Americans at their worst, including the PA regiment that camped out on the Susquehanna 12 miles below the Wyoming Massacre and did not lift a finger to help. This is for Horrywood, not Hollywood to make. See comments on OW above
More than half of the other choices would never get made, except as a badly (and CHEAPLY!) produced History Channel clunker. Is that how you want it done?
And as for Peiper, Good golly Miss Molly
Was the nominator serious? Why not the 2nd SS at Oradour?
Well, I guess we could follow them after the War with the heroic Senator Joe McCarthy defending Peiper