Hollywood movies that will never get made but should
Post a gripping true story that you think Hollywood would never make and/or that mainstream American audiences wouldn't pay to see.
The George Polk murder mystery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk
From The Salonica Bay Murder
Reporter Homer Bigart's 1948 journey into the mountains to visit a communist guerrilla leader:
Bigart was started to find that the partisans "were quite ordinary flesh and blood who shaved and bathed regularly and were kind to their horses," men convinced that their cause was right, that they would eventually win, and that "the regime in Athens was completely subservient to American interests." He also found that the equipment in the one military hospital he came across, under the command of an single woman doctor who had performed more than a thousand operations, was so primitive that "often amputations had to be done without anesthetic and with a kitchen knife." Meals consisted mostly of "bitter unsalted bread" and goat cheese...