Historical Entertainment is fortunate to have members with a wide variety of stunt-related skills relevant to historical film projects.

Through these specialists we can offer reenactment coordination, battle choreography, on-location battlefield pyrotechnics and special effects and stunt coordination in an historical context. Our work in hand-to-hand combat choreography has won acclaim, particularly in the History Channel's "Civil War Combat" series.

On the most basic level, our military reenactors are experienced in "taking hits" and many are squib-experienced and have done hand-to-hand combat for film. We also have several members with more high-level stunt experience, including some with film experience as overall stunt coordinators.

Reenactment & Battle Coordination:

• Seasoned trainers who can provide a period-correct cadre of officers and NCOs familiar in leading period drill and fighting techniques.
• Experienced cavalry reenactors with gunfire-trained horses and appropriate gear and skills.
• Artillery crews, both horse-drawn and stationery, with period specific weapons
• Weapons safety inspectors and armorers Specialist impressions with correct equipment, including field hospitals, military commissaries, quartermasters, telegraphers, etc.
• Wagon drivers and wagons (period farming equipment available on appropriate notice)
• Site safety specialists

Matt Vogel, Historical Effects:  Throughout Matt Vogel's professional career, he has strived to understand and control the environment that surrounds the acting. He's always maintained that the set should perform to bolster the drama. Be it wind, rain, smoke, fire or battlefield explosions, the shape, color, direction and force dictates the atmosphere of the piece. That and a master's eye for safety are what brought Ted Turner himself to demand Matt Vogel's presence or input on all of his historical war dramas. Let loose with his creative passions and sense of history, Matt Vogel has created some of the finest battlefield special effects ever filmed.

Matt has a very extensive list of film and television credits, so me of which are as follows:

• Gods and Generals (Turner)
• Gettysburg (Turner)
• Rough Riders (Turner)
• Buffalo Soldiers (Turner)
• Two For Texas (Turner)
• The Hunley (Turner)
• Geronimo (Turner)
• Ironclads (Turner)
• O Pioneers (Hallmark)
• American Outlaws (Warners)
• Taking Liberty (RHI)
• Generation Kill (HBO)

If you are a production company needing assistance with stunt and combat choreography, we'd like to talk to you about your needs. For your film-ready battalion, talk to us first!

Contact Matt at Effects@HETVFilm.com.

If you are a living historian or historical actor with stunt or combat choreography experience and are interested in joining Historical Entertainment, click here.