What is the most important historical event that has film documentation?

9/11 was a big tragedy for the US, but on a world scale, it was almost nothing. The two "wars" we have ongoing are hardly even "wars". Our government is simply attempting to be a police force in other countries, that's all. People that think that 9/11 was the most important world event to ever be captured on film are absolutely clueless about anything outside of the US.

1,000 years from now, the moon landing in 1969 will far outweigh anything else we have filmed thus far.

The 1999 mooning of Don Schwenneker courtesy of yours truly

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Mookie Wilson's grounder between Buckner's legs. Game 6 of 1986 World Series. One moment that turned the tide of history.

Please say you are joking wrote:

ipod banana bread wrote:

I say it's a toss up between the Holocaust and 9/11

9/11 was utterly trivial in the grand scheme of things. It is blown up out of all proportion by US politicians to manipulate an incredibly gullible population.

A tragedy, sure. But barely a blip in the course of history.

The event itself was trivial compared to the devastation and huge loss of life of, for instance, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

It was the USA’s hysterical overreaction to the event that made it historically important.

We have yet to see the final appalling outcome from the resulting invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The approximately 350,000 Iraqi Civillians who lost their lives during Bush's Shock and Awe.... Oh wait, we didn't get too see it.... No wonder why they hate us...

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The 1999 mooning of Don Schwenneker courtesy of yours truly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9tKYLQVuE

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There is of course, not one second of film of anyone being gassed in the Holocaust. Hence, I think one cannot consider that an event that was documented on film (there being no film and all).

Doclove wrote:

WTC wrote:

Your historical knowledge has clearly come from watching Hollywood movies.

The so-called ‘holocaust’ was an irrelevancy in the context of the major events of World War Two.

Sorry Hitler

Sorry Dude, you are wrong on this.

There have been larger holocausts than the Hitler "holocaust" and greater genocides.

WTC is right.

The New UncleB wrote:

There is of course, not one second of film of anyone being gassed in the Holocaust. Hence, I think one cannot consider that an event that was documented on film (there being no film and all).

You are such a pathetic anti-semite.

Your words don't hide your true colors.

scarlet wrote:

The New UncleB wrote:

There is of course, not one second of film of anyone being gassed in the Holocaust. Hence, I think one cannot consider that an event that was documented on film (there being no film and all).

You are such a pathetic anti-semite.

Your words don't hide your true colors.

I'm sorry. Is there a second of film showing one gassing? And, if not, then how can it be said to be documented on film? Do facts and reality not matter when it comes to this event?

The New UncleB wrote:

scarlet wrote:

You are such a pathetic anti-semite.

Your words don't hide your true colors.

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I'm sorry. Is there a second of film showing one gassing? And, if not, then how can it be said to be documented on film? Do facts and reality not matter when it comes to this event?

You are such a loser that I'm not even gonna reply.

Letsrun should ban all anti-semitic posters.

D-Day

ray wrote:

1) Civil War

2) Some of the film still held by the US government of our rape of cuba, the Phillipines, Japan and Korea by our boy Teddy Roosevelt.

Lee surrendered in 1865...the dude who set up the cameras on a race track to capture a galloping horse occurred in the 1870's. Do you mean photography?

He's talkin about the Egyptian Civil War.

I'm going off topic here, but anyone who 1) denies the existence of the Holocaust and/or 2) denies that it was significant enough in size, scope, or ambition to significantly matter in human history has a very limited grasp of history, as well as the dignity inherent to all human beings. At its lowest estimate, the Holocaust left 4,000,000 Jews dead, while some (admittedly high) estimates place the death toll at over 10,000,000. To my knowledge, this is the largest genocide in human history. Also, it coincides with the most disastrous and life-taking conflict in human history. We should look at these moments of unexplainable horror as turning points in the history of the human race, so that they might never happen again. To deny their validity reveals severe ignorance at the best and irrational hatred at worst.

running bum wrote:

We should look at these moments of unexplainable horror as turning points in the history of the human race, so that they might never happen again.

Stalin and Mao (among others?) killed even more than died in the Holocaust.

Nothing has turned. "Man's inhumanity against man" has always happened, and always will - even right now, perhaps not on the same scale, with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of democratically elected western governments who prize "stability" over all else.

I don't disagree with your sentiment - just get off your high horse about it.