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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2021 12:34:16 GMT
The theft of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston - the single largest property theft in the history of the world - is just fascinating and so, so chilling. There are countless conspiracy theories revolving around the heist, but here are the facts: In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as police officers entered the Gardner Museum and stole 13 works of art by artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas. The works, including Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (his only known seascape) and Vermeer’s The Concert, are worth more than $500 million. A vehicle pulled up near the side entrance of the Museum. Two men in police uniforms pushed the Museum buzzer, stated they were responding to a disturbance, and requested to be let in. The guard on duty broke protocol and allowed them through the employee entrance. At the fake officers’ request he stepped away from the watch desk. He and a second security guard were handcuffed and tied up in the basement of the Museum. The thieves departed with 13 of the Gardner’s works of art 81 minutes later. The Museum was equipped with motion detectors, so the thieves’ movements were recorded. The best known works of art were taken from the Dutch Room. They sliced Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black from their frames; removed Vermeer’s The Concert and Flinck’s Landscape with an Obelisk from their frames; pulled an ancient Chinese bronze Gu, or beaker, from a table; and took a small self-portrait etching by Rembrandt from the side of a chest. In the Short Gallery, on the same floor as the Dutch Room, five Degas drawings and a bronze eagle finial were stolen. Manet’s Chez Tortoni was taken from the Blue Room. The thieves departed at 2:45 am, after making two separate trips to their car with the artwork. The guards remained handcuffed until police arrived at 8:15 a.m. The FBI is still actively investigating the case, and is offering complete immunity to anyone who can come forward with news of the stolen works of art. The museum itself has offered a $10 million reward to anyone who can produce the artworks in good condition. The spaces where the paintings hung are still bare, in the hope that they will be returned home some day. The Gardner House of Boston, designed to resemble a Venetian palazzo: Some of the stolen works of art: How the security guard was found the next morning: Composite sketches of the thieves: Okay, your turn! So, this is now the subject of a four-part docuseries on Netflix - This is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist. I can't wait to watch!
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Post by Joaquim on Apr 18, 2021 22:18:23 GMT
8hr+ long epic on the Franco Prussian war and the subsequent collapse of the 2nd French empire from the French perspective
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Post by sophiefox on Apr 19, 2021 1:19:50 GMT
-the voyage of Magellan
-the fall of the Inca Empire/life and times of Tupac Amaru, last monarch of the Neo-Inca State
-the Mystery of the SS Ourang Medan
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Post by Martin Stett on May 26, 2021 4:07:07 GMT
I need this in my life right now.
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Post by Joaquim on May 31, 2021 3:32:15 GMT
Need a dark comedy in the vein of death of Stalin on the absolute comedy of errors that was the Crimean war
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Post by franklin on Jun 5, 2021 2:37:49 GMT
The Tulsa Massacre.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 23, 2021 11:39:06 GMT
The theft of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston - the single largest property theft in the history of the world - is just fascinating and so, so chilling. There are countless conspiracy theories revolving around the heist, but here are the facts: In the early morning hours of March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as police officers entered the Gardner Museum and stole 13 works of art by artists such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Manet, and Degas. The works, including Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (his only known seascape) and Vermeer’s The Concert, are worth more than $500 million. A vehicle pulled up near the side entrance of the Museum. Two men in police uniforms pushed the Museum buzzer, stated they were responding to a disturbance, and requested to be let in. The guard on duty broke protocol and allowed them through the employee entrance. At the fake officers’ request he stepped away from the watch desk. He and a second security guard were handcuffed and tied up in the basement of the Museum. The thieves departed with 13 of the Gardner’s works of art 81 minutes later. The Museum was equipped with motion detectors, so the thieves’ movements were recorded. The best known works of art were taken from the Dutch Room. They sliced Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee and A Lady and Gentleman in Black from their frames; removed Vermeer’s The Concert and Flinck’s Landscape with an Obelisk from their frames; pulled an ancient Chinese bronze Gu, or beaker, from a table; and took a small self-portrait etching by Rembrandt from the side of a chest. In the Short Gallery, on the same floor as the Dutch Room, five Degas drawings and a bronze eagle finial were stolen. Manet’s Chez Tortoni was taken from the Blue Room. The thieves departed at 2:45 am, after making two separate trips to their car with the artwork. The guards remained handcuffed until police arrived at 8:15 a.m. The FBI is still actively investigating the case, and is offering complete immunity to anyone who can come forward with news of the stolen works of art. The museum itself has offered a $10 million reward to anyone who can produce the artworks in good condition. The spaces where the paintings hung are still bare, in the hope that they will be returned home some day. The Gardner House of Boston, designed to resemble a Venetian pal Robert Gentile, the last person believed to have treasures from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist of 1990, has died.
Gentile’s attorney Ryan McGuigan told Boston.com Gentile died Friday of a stroke at Hartford Hospital. The FBI considers Gentile the last person known to have possessed items from the heist, but Gentile denied this until his death, McGuigan said.
www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/09/22/robert-gentile-dead-at-85-gardner-museum-heist/
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Post by franklin on Sept 24, 2021 12:28:34 GMT
Pretty much anything that happened during the Roman Empire (27 BC- AD 476) and the Eastern one (AD 395- 1453).
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 28, 2021 22:38:02 GMT
www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/nostalgia-do-you-remember-power-cuts-in-the-70s/I've been reading about the UK blackouts of the '70s.... "the decade that dimmed" as The Telegraph put it. Has there been any movies about this period? Specifically, I'd use December 1970.... On the 10th, as many homes were watching BBC1's Play for Today (the very good horror Robin Redbreast that pacinoyes posted about recently) a nationwide outage occurred before it finished airing. Already a who-viewed spooked lot, they saw only five days more of electricity for the rest of the month around a candlelit Christmas. At various points that month, people were blocked on lifts, "bandits" were robbing corner stores with airguns, a boilerman was murdered... and the striking electric union were not only up against the govt but a piqued public. You could make a dark comedy of it, an ensemble social drama, or even a slow-burn horror.....
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 28, 2021 23:11:05 GMT
@ Mattsby only one I'm aware of is The Power which came out a few months ago on Shudder. Looks pretty spooky
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Sept 29, 2021 16:47:54 GMT
@ Mattsby only one I'm aware of is The Power which came out a few months ago on Shudder. Looks pretty spooky It sucked. Don't waste your time.
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Post by stephen on Sept 29, 2021 16:49:49 GMT
I've really wanted a proper horror film set during the Starving Time of Jamestown in 1609-1610. After food supplies had diminished, some colonists began to dig up corpses for food. During this period, one man was tortured until he confessed to having killed, salted, and eaten his pregnant wife; he was burned alive as punishment.
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 7, 2021 3:29:17 GMT
www.connecticutmag.com/the-connecticut-story/the-real-arsenic-and-old-lace/article_6ced1d6b-cf1f-5c97-8c82-87b83243ae5d.htmlArticle about a "real life Arsenic and Old Lace" could be done in a darkly funny f'd up way but then again, poisoning the elderly - - not very funny. But the mention of a Zola Bennett caught me - barely anything online about her - she was Connecticut's first female trooper. She moonlighted as a stenographer but was an undercover officer - and in 1914, she infiltrated the suspected nursing home (of the poisoned) as a "wealthy widow" and gathered evidence. Every meal must've been a little frightful. Zola died a few years later and apparently most of her familiars never knew she wasn't a clerk. cast Ann Dowd (or...?) and you got yaself a picture.
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Post by dazed on Nov 7, 2021 17:44:39 GMT
Costa Concordia Disaster
Would probably work better as a miniseries though akin to Chernobyl.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Nov 7, 2021 18:17:59 GMT
Oh honeys, I'm trying to raise $4 billion (kickstarter link to follow, please give generously...) for my movie on Dr. Ruja Ignatova, aka, The Missing Cryptoqueen, the Bulgarian fraudster & con woman who travel and scammed the world for 4 billion dollars by launching the totally fake OneCoin (based on BitCoin) cryptocurrency before completely disappearing off the face of the earth with all the money. Nobody has seen her since 2017! I read the story on the English BBC, and thought I wish I'd thought of that I'd be excellent playing her... I could really sweep the Oscars and everyone with this one! www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-50435014
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2021 16:14:22 GMT
I've really wanted a proper horror film set during the Starving Time of Jamestown in 1609-1610. After food supplies had diminished, some colonists began to dig up corpses for food. During this period, one man was tortured until he confessed to having killed, salted, and eaten his pregnant wife; he was burned alive as punishment. I'm praying that Ryan Murphy isn't on MAR...
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Post by stephen on Nov 8, 2021 16:17:00 GMT
I've really wanted a proper horror film set during the Starving Time of Jamestown in 1609-1610. After food supplies had diminished, some colonists began to dig up corpses for food. During this period, one man was tortured until he confessed to having killed, salted, and eaten his pregnant wife; he was burned alive as punishment. I'm praying that Ryan Murphy isn't on MAR... I'd love it if Steven Knight went full Taboo/Peaky Blinders with it.
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Post by getclutch on Nov 8, 2021 23:58:37 GMT
Jon Burge, who was a detective for the Chicago Police Department from ’70-’91. Sickening what he did in those years.
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Post by Joaquim on Nov 9, 2021 0:18:40 GMT
Pretty much anything that happened during the Roman Empire (27 BC- AD 476) and the Eastern one (AD 395- 1453). All of Roman history dating all the way back to the days of the 7 Kings of Rome deserves the screen treatment. Would have to be a miniseries as this is such a massive undertaking, not even a 12hr long film would do it justice
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Post by michael128 on Nov 9, 2021 16:22:50 GMT
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Post by michael128 on Nov 9, 2021 16:24:26 GMT
maybe the hockey one would be a better miniseries? icons
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Post by michael128 on Nov 10, 2021 15:35:16 GMT
also a movie about julius de boer, beyonces longtime bodyguard would be glorious
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Post by getclutch on Nov 19, 2021 3:07:20 GMT
Valerie Percy. On September 18th, 1966, she was attacked & murdered in the family home in Kenilworth. The case remains unsolved. Her father, Charles Percy was the Illinois State Senator from 1967 to 1985.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Nov 20, 2021 2:32:40 GMT
A good long movie (or miniseries) about the 1947 Texas City disaster. The deadliest industrial accident in US History. A fire broke out on a French-register cargo ship carrying 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate which detonated. The explosion set off a chain reaction of explosions in other ships and nearby oil storage facilities, ultimately killing at least 581 people and injuring 5000. The pictures of the destruction are shocking.
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Post by Joaquim on Dec 10, 2021 6:24:40 GMT
Watching Succession has done a lot to increase my desire to watch an all encompassing film, or miniseries, or show on the power struggle between Charlemagne’s grandkids over the Carolingian Empire during and after the reign of their father, Louis the Pious. This chapter of history is fucking captivating and culminated in the creation of the kingdoms that would become modern day France and Germany, and the land in between that they’d spend the next 1000 years fighting over
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