Aviation Movies - your top 5?

Richard Brooks wrote:
Orval Fairbairn wrote:

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Richard Brooks wrote:


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I want to stock up on some aviation themed videos. Would anyone
want to volunteer their top five aviation movies? Mine a

1. Top Gun.
2. Angels One 5.
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. The Blue Max.

Most aviation related movies have a war theme but there must be
interesting non military movies or documentaries with realistic
flying action.


1. Dambusters.
2. Battle of Britain. Try watching the DVD with the original Walton
full score and it's just not the same!

3. Strategic Air Command. Just for the B-36s and B-47s and having
lived next to RAF Brize Norton, getting past the guards and playing
there as a kid in SAC days. I love the honest scripting about the
crewman whining about being called up and preferring to run his own
business.

4. 1000 Plane Raid. Highlights are the B-17 buzzing the airfield, no
CGI in that clip and a wingtip not far from the runway. Funny bit is
the Spitfire pilot in the dodgy bubble canopy. Memories of watching
it in Brize base's cinema and a B-47 revving up its engines just
outside the place so everyone leaning forward to listen better!

5. For Those In Peril - and other smaller films with various
aircraft clips in, such as the Walrus in this film.


Richard.



The above, plus:

12 O'Clock High

Tora! Tora! Tora!


I'd bought both of those on DVD because they are special and Tora! Tora!
Tora! amazed me because of the half-point screen blackout for me to go
to the foyer and buy stuff - in my own home.


Wings


Wings I don't know but I will search that one out.


The Great Waldo Pepper


For me that's on par with The Blue Max and damn, we've taken it over the
five mark! ;-)

There are loads that are special in one way but maybe not worth the DVD
effort.

There's the film where a B-17 crew try to make it back to mainland I
think, after having to evacuate Pearl Harbor and hopping from island to
island looking for spare parts.

The Way To The Stars, The one I've seen a few times with John Wayne
(Late 1930s) and some Navy flyers meeting with officers at a party and
one of their planes crash lands on the grounds. There are a few like
that usually with two guys who can't stand each other and some gal comes
along and makes up the triangle.

Old age kills the brain cells!

[With apologies]


OHMYGOD - High Flight! How could I forget that old gem of RAF Cranwell
and a great excuse to show long air-to-air aerobatic shots with Vampire
and Hunter display teams.



Richard.




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