the best movies never made

North West Passage

Historical documentary of man's long time quest for the Northwest Passage with the last 1/3 of the film devoted to discussing how climate change has now made this a reality for part of the year.
 
Pave Low Down: An epic 2007 war film starring Ben Affleck and Denzel Washington about the disasterous Operation Eagle Claw mission to rescue US embassy staff held hostage in Iran. As depicted in the film, the assault team was succesfully able to storm the embassy and rescue the hostages before one of the helicopters sent to retrieve them was shot down over Tehran, resulting in the Delta Force assault team and the hostages fighting their way back to the embassy and taking a stand there. Out of the entire assault force and the hostages, only 11 were able to escape and evade their way to Turkey, while the rest where either killed in the fighting or executed after being captured, leading to the US invasion of Iran at the beggining of 1980, which itself was depicted through the eyes of members of the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division in the television series Generation Kill.

Very interesting. Ive been doing a little reading about Eagle Claw as part of my Masquerade timeline, including ways that it could go bad--or good.
 
Mission: Possible (2019) - The laziest agent of the CIA is forced to leave his cushy desk at Langley and team up with his opposite of the MI:5, to try to solve a riddle of global proportions. Starring Jack Black as the CIA agent, and Simon Pegg as the MI:5 operative, this duo will atempt to save the world... while spending as little energy as possible.

Teaming up against infamous Chilean criminal, El Weon.
 
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How about this classic?
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Seinfeld: The Movie
This time, it's really about nothing.

Proving the formula of Seinfeld could work for the big screen, Larry David claimed he got the idea for the movie when someone said, "You've lost your marbles." One of the plot threads woven through the movie is George complaining that he lost his marble collection.
 
12 Years a Slave

A harrowing film about a German Social Democrat MP in 1933 who is arrested by the Nazis the day after Hitler comes to power. He spends eight years in concentration camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, followed by four years as an unwilling member of the Dirlewanger Battalion, forced to commit war crimes.
 
The Scarlet and the Black

A war film about the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879.

Thomas the Tank Engine

A war film about a Soviet armoured train, the Thomas, taking tanks to besieged Stalingrad, and the men on board her.
 
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Enemy at the Gates

Animation set in the Thomas the Tank engine universe as plans are made and begun to totally electrify all the railways on Sodor. Will Gordon and Thomas be sold for scrap?
 
One Second After 2012

Dir: Ron Howard

A film based on the novel by William R Forstchen, about an EMP attack on the USA and the Northern Hemisphere and the effects over a twelve month period.

Main Cast

John Matherson : Gary Sinise
Elizabeth Matherson : Dakota Blue Richards
Jennifer Matherson : Dakota Fanning
Jenny, Johns mother in law : Maggie Smith
Makala Turner : Eva Green
Charlie Turner : Scott Bakula
Washington Parker : Louis Gossett Jr
Dan Hunt : Martin Sheen
Jim Bartlett : Lee Majors
Doc Keller : Kevin Bacon
Tom Barker : Mark Harmon
Don Barker : Sam Waterson
Kate Lindsey : Glenn Close
Ben Johnson : Asa Butterfield
Bob Scales : Harvey Keitel
Leader of "The Posse" : Woody Harrelson
 
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Frequent Wind (2004):
A recounting of the final week of the Vietnam War, the Fall of Saigon and US evacuation efforts, told through the perspectives of an American embassy worker, a South Vietnamese writer, a Marine and an NVA Tank commander.

Frozen (2013):
Nine Soviet student trekkers climb the Ural mountains, and discover they are not alone, nor welcome, in a sinister turn of events now called the Dyatlov Pass incident.

The Dark Knight (2008):
The comedic adventures of a slave named Jende, who after begin freed in bizarre circumstances in a Libyan market, finds himself enveloped in various events across medieval Europe as he tries to get home.

Justin Beiber: Never Say Never (2011):
A grandiose thriller detailing the rise and fall of a former Rhodesian paratrooper Justin Beiber, and how he came to run one of the largest arms trafficking rings in history during the 1990s.

Snowpiercer (2014):
Australian film covering the journey of the Douglas Mawson's (Benedict Cumberdale) Far Eastern Party through the Antarctic in 1912-1913, from which he returned as the sole survivor.

North West Passage.

The tragic story of the doomed Franklin expedition searching for the fabled short cut to the Orient. James Robertson Justice stars in his Oscar winning role as Admiral Franklin.

Definitely recommending you to watch AMC's "The Terror" series, if you haven't already.
 
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