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WWII Movie list

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PJMack

Charter Member
I am interested in increasing my movie collection of World War II aircraft. Please feel free to add to it.

12 oclock high
the war lover
the dam busters
flying leather necks
Tuskeegee Airmen
Airforce
Wing and a Prayer
Tora Tora Tora
Midway
Memphis Belle
Island in the sky


I also have World War II movies from the other services but would like to keep the aircraft list up.

Thanks in advance
 
movies

Off the top of my head you might add

Command Decision
Divebomber
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Combat America

I usually get them from Netflix which will also have some foreign films like the Russian film Torpedo Bomber.

Jimski
 
You forgot the best WW2 airplane movie of all time: Pearl Harbor :costumes:

OBIO
 
How could you miss THE movie "The Battle of Britain"? Biggest filmed collection of airworthy Spitfires you ever saw. Also the "633 Squadron" with nice shots of Mosquitoes.
Finn:icon31:
 
You got me to thinking of some oldies. One is very obscure and under-appreciated called Target Unknown. The basic plot is about the crew of a Marauder who are shot down and captured and their dealings with a Luftwaffe interrogator.
The German doesn't use whips and thumbscrews, rather his wits, a genial personality and the ability to listen. (The worst kind) It's based on a book written by Raymond Toliver about the real life Hanns Scharff. He always presented himself as an enlisted man because officers tended to think they were too smart for him in that guise. Thanks for the question, I had forgotten about the book and the movie. The other movie is Air Force. I don't want to give away anything, but the little dog survives. It has William Bendix in it who never survives any war movies he's in. This was a major picture for its time. To Corsiar. F it is set in the Pacific. Both are excellent flicks. :kilroy: Sorry, reread your post and you had already mentioned Air Force, so I'll suggest A Guy Name Joe with Spencer Tracy and Van Johnson. It had a sappy unbelievable plot, but did have some beautiful shots of P-38's.
 
Two movies I'd written off as "chick flicks" but turned out to be pleasant surprises: Dark Blue World and Map of the Human Heart.

JAMES
 
Gotta mention two more: Captain of the Clouds. Vintage Jimmy Cagney who learns the value of teamwork the hard way. Catch 22, not nearly worthy of the book, but does have some good shots of B-25's.
 
You want to find the following:

Target for Tonight
Coastal Command
Ferry Pilot

These are wartime films made with the full co-operation of the Royal Air Force. They are both part of the 'Imperial War Museum DVD Collection' and should be readily available.
 
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633 squadron coming this month on one of our cable channels,but when it rains ......
dog1
 
Movies...

"Flying Tigers" with John Wayne... it's not the best movie... but I think it's pretty cool anyway... anything with the Duke in it is good.

"Tuskegee Airmen"... all the FW-190s are Texans LOL. Good P-51 sequences.

"Empire of the Sun"... It's actually, IMHO, an OK movie... whatever you may have against it, the P-51 strafing sequences make it all worth while.

Now for some other movies... not aviation... but hey...

"The Lost Battalion"... World War I flick... GOOOOOD movie!

"U-571"... I dare say that it's better than "Das Boot"!

"1941"... Why they let this guy fly a P-40 is beyond me... but I love seein' that P-40 fly!

As a heads-up, there's a documentary coming out soon on The Gathering Of Mustangs and Legends. If you weren't there last year for the show, get this video!

And then there's ALWAYS youtube...

And don't forget the foreign movies "Yamato" and "Der Untergang"!
 
Do'nt forget "I Wanted Wings" 1941, one of the best I saw with Ray Milland, William Holden. Rumor is the master was destroyed in a fire, I taped it in 1991 from AMC.

Casey
 
Hey all.

You hit a lot of good'uns. Now I want to find them to watch. How about...

Strategic Air Command

Patton

Flags of Our Fathers

Letters from Iwo Jima

Saving Private Ryan

Midway

The Train
 
I can't leave it alone, it's playing into two of my obsessions: WWII airplanes and old movies. Did anybody mention Task Force with Gary Cooper? One of the supporting actors, Wayne Morris, was a real navy pilot in the Pacific and was credited with 7 victories. Another great film was A Bridge Too Far. The scenes of the C-47's taking off and the parachute drop were fantastic. But you really need to see them in a theater to get the full effect. Purple Heart is a tear jerker, but worth see if just for the scene of the Japanese officers doing a Banzai war dance in the courtroom. And finally Memphis Belle, not the movie, but the WWII documentary by William Wellman.
 
Command Decision
Divebomber
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Combat America
Pearl Harbor
Battle of Britain
Mosquito Squadron
633 Squadron
Reach fop the Sky
Flying Tigers
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
Target Unknown
Blue Max,
Flyboys
Dark Blue World
Map of the Human Heart
Captain of the Clouds
Catch 22

Target for Tonight
Coastal Command
Ferry Pilot
Empire of the Sun
The Lost Battalion
I Wanted Wings

Strategic Air Command

Patton

Flags of Our Fathers

Letters from Iwo Jima

Saving Private Ryan

Midway

The Train
Task Force


Thanks

PJMack
 
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