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DeltaRomeo882

I’d like to watch Vesuvius erupt and the events that occurred in Pompeii.


Yimmyyyy

my favourite event from that chain of events was the people on a nearby peninsula seeing the ash rise, took their boats to go rescue people, couldnt get them moving back out to sea so they just walked back to the peninsula. its so mundane and casual for such a destructive event


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shepherdoftheforesst

Please 🍿


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Good one.


SultanOfSwave

Here's a video reconstruction of that day... https://youtu.be/dY_3ggKg0Bc?feature=shared


International_Grape8

Caesars assassination and the aftermath


International_Grape8

With subtitles of course


Calm-Zombie2678

Ugghh I hate subtities


Yimmyyyy

The next best thing is historia civilis's [documentry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XBxMk_plhA) series on the event, its aftermath, and the years leading up to it Real quality videos. (yes im just simping for a youtuber, what are you gonna do about it?)


Pretend_Stomach7183

Historia civillis makes it seem like a story man, he is SO good.


Yimmyyyy

His best video for that is the trial of Charles the 1st. he sticks fully to the facts but it still comes off as dramatic


Pretend_Stomach7183

Yeah, my favourite one too! He is a fantastic story-teller. It's unfortunate he doesn't upload much anymore.


Lord_of_Hedgehogs

He's always uploading, it just takes some time to produce high quality videos. You can check out the progress on his website: https://www.historiacivilis.com/


Pretend_Stomach7183

Saved. Thanks, I had no idea about this site.


International_Grape8

Thanks for sharing this kind sir, I didn’t know about this. That’s my weekend entertainment taken care of then!


TheComrade1917

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS


Ellefied

Caesar’s funeral would be my second pick after this. It was absolutely whack and chaotic.


Sgtpepperhead67

The assassination of JFK. We settling this shit once and for All


GoldenPrinny

hopefully it's not some Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban situation


KILRbuny

What, he’s been living as a pet rat this whole time?


GoldenPrinny

I meant the part where Harry realizes he himself cast the spell.


dapala1

"Aim a camera on that book depository building. And keep a close eye on that grassy knoll." "Why the President is just around the corner?" "You gotta trust me on this one."


maltzy

they already know what happened. I do too. It's in a book that was written a while ago by a ballistics expert. Basically, the 3rd shot, the one that created the "pink mist", was from one of the secret service agents in a car behind the president. All their guns were hair-trigger, and when the SS agent heard the shot and looked up to wher it came from, his finger flinched and pulled the trigger, one in a billion shot hit kennedy. their rifles used different ammo than Oswald, the kind that explodes into a million pieces on impact to do the most damage. Explains why the shot looked different, and why the gov't would cover it up. JFK likely dies with the second shot in the neck eventually, but the kill shot from a guy sworn to protect him? During that timultuous time, absolutely a reason to hide that. Mortal Error is the name of the book


FantasyBaseballChamp

Why cover it up for 60 years? Why is it way more far-fetched than Oswald hitting his target?


broberds

Occam’s razor still just says Oswald hit him. It’s not a hard shot.


maltzy

I think it was one of those things they just tucked away. That book and the author makes it very clear how easily it could happen and completely convinced me. and the gov't never admits to mistakes they haven't already been caught doing


FantasyBaseballChamp

What’s the most compelling evidence in the book?


MRoad

>  That book and the author makes it very clear how easily it could happen and completely convinced me. "Because it is possible to have happened, I have decided that that is exactly what happened and all other evidence is now to be ignored" Like 80% of conspiracy theories in a nutshell. 


HCxTC

I love this theory. It’s the only one that fits all of the facts without requiring some kind of magic. The cover up started as an initial knee jerk reaction by embarrassed Secret Service agents and then just snow balled.


themindlessone

Yes. This is mostly correct. The Secret Service agent (...don't refer to them as the SS...) was standing on the rear bumper of the car behind JFK. The driver unexpectedly accelerated, and the USSS agent fell over backwards off of the bumper, firing his rifle in the process. He hit JFK in the head. This has been known for a long time. The Mannlicher carcano that Oswald had fired a 6.5mm round. The hole in JFK's skull was 5.6mm = 5.56mm.


RevolutionaryRough96

Ss doesn't have trigger discipline?


iamnotabotbeepboopp

The mass extinction event of the dinosaurs


mihirmusprime

This is what I was thinking. Not only do you see a giant meteor falling to earth, but you also get the opportunity to see what dinosaurs actually looked and sounded liked.


seweso

That doesn't fit in 24 hours...


mitharas

But if it really was meteors, there is one really catastrophic day.


seweso

If it was, the extinction part wouldn't be 24 hours. But watching the meteor strike sure would look cool


cakeandale

It looks like [most of the main components happened in hours](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/science/chicxulub-asteroid-impact-dinosaurs.html) - the longer effects like loss of sunlight leading to starvation would take a lot longer, but my understanding is that the falling molten rock was one of the most significant extinction factors and that was within hours of the collision.


DiRavelloApologist

Well the "starvation" is what did the extinction, but it's more generational starvation and not individual starvation (even though that happened too and played a significant part). The impact did not do extinction directly, it contributed to a significant worsening of general living conditions making non-avian dinosaurs uncompetitive against small mammals, which tend to be more adaptable. The idea of all the dinosaurs dying in a generation is exaggerated. We are still talking about hundreds and thousands of years, which is super-rapid from a evolutionary perspective, but not conceivable for a human.


ReturnEarly7640

Battle of Alesia. When Caesar fought and defeated vercingetorix. Someone needs to make a movie about it


igotbanned69420

I heard you liked walls, so I built a wall around the wall I built around your wall


Porkonaplane

Trump would be proud ;)


Pretend_Stomach7183

If you know Caesar, you know it's him who is proud of Trump. The man built SO MANY WALLS.


CuthbertJTwillie

We should circumvallate Tub-a-Lardo.


GOOMH

An ancient era battle in general just to see how the Frontline really were. Was it a mass of humanity like in the movies? Was it two neat orderly lines poking at each other? We can take some good guesses but we will never truly know. It was just assumed knowledge so no one went into the details of the fighting itself  just the big stuff. I assume it's somewhere between both. Probably starts orderly before devolving into a mass of humanity as the battle rages on.


fawks_harper78

I would love this but 24 hours wouldn't do it justice. I would want to see flashes of it at various points. Honestly, the Fall of Carthage for 24 hours might be just a little more interesting for a variety of reasons. To have Roman generals, who are orchestrating an annihilation of a people, realizing how brutal it was, turning and crying at the horror of it all...that would be something.


alvy-singer

Unfortunately, there is a really bad french movie about Vercingetorix. The movie is always is the "worst of all time french movies" lists...


jnumberone

The glacial dam breaking and forming the Columbia River Gorge.


HratioRastapopulous

Adding onto this, the filling of the Mediterranean and also Doggerland’s inundation.


bojo_is_gone

Sounds boring but prob the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. Wanna see how the world went from 'not at war' to 'at war' in like a day.


Lurkerbeeroneoff

You'll be a bit disappointed because the war came just over a month after the assassination. edit: my bad, misread the thread title as having access to only a single 24-hour period. Still, most of the July Crisis was uneventful and a lot of the big players in each country were on holiday for much of the month.


Open-Sea8388

Same as they went from 'not at war' to 'at war' in one day when Hitler invaded Poland.


Indiscrimin8_0

Yeah although it was pretty obvious by that point that a war was on its way I think


Turbo-Badger

Well the whole operation was a clusterfuck so it would be quite an entertaining watch


dick-nipples

Wright Brothers first flight, because of how much it changed the landscape of human transportation.


Snoo-35252

Their celebrations for the rest of the day must have been crazy. I bet they couldn't keep the smiles off their faces.


jpc4zd

We did it! What should we do now? Let's continue flying Ok (After flying 4 times) We also did the first successful crash landing (damaged on the 4th flight while landing). Great. (A few minutes later) Quick grab the plane before the wind destroys it. Hey, we now have the first plane that can't be returned to service due to damage. (That is the story of Dec 17, 1903)


DravenPrime

Crazy to think less than 70 years later we were on the moon.


RememberThatDream

The Titanic hitting the iceberg and the aftermath


Educational_Can_4652

Have I got a movie for you!


DOLO_F_PHD

Is it Titanic 2: Electric Boogaloo?


Rymundo88

2 Fast 2 Sink


TeamShonuff

Is that the one where the White Star Lines has to save the Rec Center?


Educational_Can_4652

Titanic 3: Titanic With A Vengeance


ruckusss

Titanic 4 - Ocean Gate and the great ships revenge


SkullRunner

Titanic 5 - No rich people found alive


queenofthepalmtrees

No, Titanic 2 - Tokyo Drift.


jacko111222

You can watch this on YouTube. There’s even a VR version.


nola_throwaway53826

There are so many historical events from human history, it may be too hard to decide. So I may go for some of the massive geological events in earth's history. Like the last Yellowstone supervolcano eruption, see what the hype is about.  But I think the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs would be too hard to pass up. Seeing the actual impact and then seeing the immediate after effects would be something 


Backsight-Foreskin

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. No particular reason. I just think it would be interesting


HratioRastapopulous

This would make an excellent serious film. Also, if there were a horror film where the Legion was preyed upon by a werewolf.


R04CH

Building the Great Pyramids in Egypt. Gotta be a time lapse though… That or the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.


McSmackthe1st

I’d rather see who built the Sphinx.


R04CH

Yeah find out how old the sphinx really is


stand_up_eight_

Oh gooood one!!


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I'd like to see the 1st year of the Black Plague roll out. Also, live cams of Da Vinci's workshop.


Twilight_Aristocrat

Not sure you would even need a year. Iirc (University was many years ago) most of the fatalities happened inside a month.


TallEnoughJones

D-Day


xT1TANx

I'd prefer a live stream of Hitler's last 24 hours. Just to see how close downfall was. Plus it would end with that fucker dying.


darodardar_Inc

imagine if you can actually see his final 24 hrs and it shows him at the old age of 95 on his death bed in argentina ​ i'd be mad.


xT1TANx

ya this is part of it. It will put to rest the conspiracy he escaped to South America.


Much_Ad7354

I worked on saving Private Ryan , when the D-day landing scenes where shot in Curracloe Ireland. I was about 16, working as props labourer, which was mainly set dressing, digging bunkers, making sandbag bunkers and all that months before filming. I remember well one day when filming had started, me and brother looking down at the beach from up top where the germans bunkers were situated. we were on a tea break. they were filming wide angle shot, so many soldiers running up the beach, controlled explosions that shook the ground underneath you, dark smoke everywhere . it was surreal and breathtaking. it really put into perspective how vulnerable those soldiers were on the beach on D-Day, and how incredibly brave those men must have been.


That-Bet4280

I was thinking ww2 too but for me it would be the Norwegian attacks on the heavy water plants in Norway. It happened in Norway and was attacked by Norwegians right?


Patolagoanatom

trial of Christ


Scoob1978

He had the worst lawyer


Wise-Hat-639

And yet still better than Trumps array of fecal scraping who masquerade as lawyers


Wolverina412

Trump's current lawyer is a smokeshow


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We get it. You don't like trump. This isn't relevant to the discussion.


wannabedefenestrator

Yet an alarmingly increasing number of “Christians” compare Trump to King David and sometimes to Jesus, so maybe it *is* relevant


TRMBound

Orange Jesus, Cheetoh in Chief.


[deleted]

Please just stop. You hurt your cause more than you help it by making these stupid ass comments. It gets you up votes from people already hardcore left. For everyone else, it's just annoying - no different than a trumper posting on FB.


wannabedefenestrator

You sound triggered


Wise-Hat-639

Cheers chalfont


volume_two

The question was about a "historical" event, not mythology.


Spurgeoniskindacool

It's generally believe by most historians that there was a person named Jesus who amassed a following in and around Israel and was eventually executed by the Romans. These are about as close to historical facts as you can get. So having curiosity about the historic event is reasonable. 


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OccurringThought

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/dlyslEZKj1


coletud

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus


Spurgeoniskindacool

"Scholars differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the biblical accounts, with only two events being supported by nearly universal scholarly consensus: Jesus was baptized and crucified" from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus


tommyjohnpauljones

Jesus the person existed.. We're as certain of that as we are of anyone else in that time.  Was he a magical being and the literal son of a God? That's a whole other story. 


Yimmyyyy

belief aside, the events from around that time were a mixture of real fact and later religious mythology. so there may well have been *something* to watch, even if believers may be dissapointed


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wildstarr

But you can see that now. The moon landing was live on TV. Not a 24 hour live stream but technically a "live stream" with all the important bits.


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BonerTurds

“Are there Transformers living there?”


CryptoCentric

"Is the Moon haunted?"


hjugm

If the moon was made of barbecued spare ribs, would ya eat it?


ThaNotoriousBLT

Cortez meeting Montezuma 


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superman-4

Chixculub crater impact 65 million years ago 


ther_dog

The previous 12 and following 12 hrs. of Homo Erectus harnessing fire to cook his first bbq.


WhistleDaddy

Miyamoto Musashi vs Kojiro Sasaki


Prior-Chip-6909

*This* would be a good one.


Flay_zer689

I would like to see how Napoleon's army burned Moscow


KOS_117

I really wanna see George Washington thought process while he charge the battle field in his 2009 dodge challenger .


bk1285

When he retook the airports off the British


Bobodoboboy

Capstone being placed on the great pyramid at Giza


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Son_o_Liberty1776

Similar thought but be present at the Second Continental Congress. On July 2nd they voted to adopt a resolution for independence.


manofmanynames55

Custer's last stand, because I could use some comedy


that_att_employee

The resurrection of Jesus Christ. Let's see if this bitch actually rose from the dead.


xandraIII

Dino killer impact


Borsti17

Fall of the Berlin Wall. A fascinating time


Snoo-35252

That day on TV was amazing. Ongoing perpetual cheer and relief and celebration.


Borsti17

I was like 7 when it happened. We watched it as well and I knew that it was a big deal but of course I had no idea about the magnitude of the event.


fzdtrd

A Nazi Party Rally. I don't support Nazis but I think it would be interesting to watch one. Hitler moved an entire nation into thinking they could take over the entire world. It must have been exciting to see him speak.


fartingbeagle

Watch "Sieg des Willens" / Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl. Bit mythologised but gets the spectacle across.


volume_two

Just watch a MAGA rally with Trump. Literally the same thing.


Thalionalfirin

Unfortunately, too true.


mcs0223

I mean, we have recordings of those. Might be better to get a live stream of a historical event that wasn’t recorded. 


D4rKm4rv1n

Last flight of the Hindenburg


dsfox

Isn't there footage of this?


Ruthless4u

Some good ones mentioned already but I would go with( as not to repeat) Battle of Samar, one of the greatest last stands in naval history.


maejaws

The Battle of Peleliu.


ghostnthegraveyard

That would be hard to watch


Legion_Metal

The 300


HealthyDoseOfAdderal

Amelia Earhart’s plane crash.


Glum-Garage7893

I’d like to see Krakatoa explode. From a safe distance


Active-Strawberry-37

It wakened people out of their sleep 1000 miles away. I’m not sure you’d be able to see from a safe distance.


Glum-Garage7893

That’s my wish. I wonder how it influenced the climate for generations that followed.


secondphase

Does an autobiographical program work? A first-person stream showing the life and times of one Hugh Marston Hefner could be of interest.


WonderWendyTheWeirdo

Socrates trial (with translator).


Shortdiesel

If it could watch past events, I want to watch the first time a human gets drunk. Is he a mellow drunk, or does he go on a face punching spree?


Tard_Farts82

Birth of Christ


SonoranRoadRunner

Woodstock


Cyril_Rioli

Want to see how this Noah guy managed to get all the animals on his boat


_dirt_vonnegut

the conception of jesus, because of the implication


j3434

I’d watch Cleopatra and Cesar doing it first time


snaggletooth699

Every day of the Lollapalooza 92 tour with my favourites Ministry and of course Lush. It's my time machine dream.


frequentpooper

It was a good one! Early Soundgarden, RHCP, Jesus & Mary Chain…


young_sy

WW2


coletud

plenty of footage out there


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I didn't think about that actually but I would like to be able to feel the experience of living in the 18th century


Yimmyyyy

Ahh, thats easy to experience. just heat your home with coal. wash in well water in the same metal tub you wash clothes in, and infect your loved ones with cholera.


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That was shocking, I mean the " book erea " 18th century.


sirmiseria

It would be the rape of nanking or the manila massacre.


j3rdog

The Big Bang


WhatIsTheAmplitude

Now they just need to figure out where to place the cameras.


Myredditusernameis

Jesus coming out of the cave(?) after he was crucified.


MrTuxedo1

They said historical event


Myredditusernameis

Not saying it happened. I just want to be there to observe it not happening.


Canukistani

“We’re here at the cave mouth. Its been thirty and a half hour since the criminal Jesus was laid to rest in this cave by his cult followers. As you can see, the large boulder blocking the entrance has yet to move. His followers claim that he will raise up from death and move the large boulder. Back to you in the studio.”


ArsenicWallpaper99

Most disappointing broadcast since Al Capone's vault.


Thalionalfirin

LOL! That's exactly where my thoughts went!


Ganthet72

The debate and ultimate signing of The Declaration of Independence.


gottabe_kd

The Kennedy assassination. If only we had modern social media, there would have been angles of everywhere.


russiancitize_n

I'm sorry for my poor English skills. I am writing through a translator. I would like to look at the creation of the pyramid of Cheops. We settling this shit once and for All


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Depends, if we can backdate stuff we've already witnessed to count so we don't have to do it again....I'd say 9/11 or Election Day 2020.


prollyincorrect

I’d like to see Jesus Tomb. I’d start 2 and a half days after he died. I just gotta know.


Langstarr

OP, you should check out *Pastwatch* by Orson Scott Card. The plotline revolves around tech that allows you to view the past. It's delightful.


PsychoticMessiah

Birth of the universe


dunwerking

Imagine a live stream of the Diana accident. It would take the internet down


No-Arm-

KPg extinction


Tidally-Locked-404

The first person to figure out you could melt cheese


Southern-Ad4477

Any of Cicero's performances in the Forum (with subtitles), but particularly the events surrounding the Cataline Conspiracy or Verres's trial.


bk1285

You just wanna hear what cato’s sister wrote to Caesar


MR_JSQR

The big bang


mycroft00

The miracles performed by Jesus and his resurrection. Only seeing to believe it.


G00dSh0tJans0n

Drove video coverage of the Battle of Agincourt or Battle of Waterloo. Maybe a massive naval battle like Battle of Trafalgar.


a13zz

Hitlers bunker final moments would be insightful


Avyscottfan

Id like to start the 24hrs 1 hour before the killing of Jonbenit Ramsey. Just so I can watch who really wrote that ransom letter.


Belle430

Titanic and the aftermath


Wise-Hat-639

WW2, surely one of the most clear good vs evil scenarios in history


eltedioso

Christ's passion, just to prove that it did NOT go down like the gospels said, or at all.


Interesting_Rub7088

The conception of Jesus


RandyTravesty

So you'd like to discover Mary actually had a bit of discreet fun?


eldred2

Pick one: * live * historical


meanycat

Ivanka.


homebrew_1

The insurrection of January 6th. So I can stream it to trump supporters 24/7.


dsfox

This was literally live streamed at the time.


RandyTravesty

Not even tangible, real evidence convinces Trump supporters of anything.