Thread by @IanDunt

A million times this. It's incredible to me, for instance, how few films there are about the civil war or Glorious Revolution.

https://twitter.com/jonathancoe/status/1348552864994631680

I mean, how much more dramatic could the civil war be? It's the birth spasms of the modern world, full of battle, revolution, mutiny, rebellion, regicide. That's a fucking good night out at the movies, if nothing else.

But I sense that filmmakers think it is too alien and little understood for audiences to get on board with it.

To those mentioning it, A Field in England is indeed brilliant - one of my favourite films - but set in the civil war rather than strictly about it. Fanny Lye Deliver'd came out last year and was criminally under-discussed. It's extraordinary.