Aviation Movies - your top 5?

It isn't a flying movie, but always crack up when I see the flying
scenes in Fandango.




news.ozemail.com.au wrote:
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.

Twelve O'Clock High
The High and the Mighty
Rise(Return) of the Phoenix (someone will know the real name)
Catch 22
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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.





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"news.ozemail.com.au" wrote in message
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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.



Are there no good German ones ?
If they could make a superb submarine epic like 'Das Boot' they must have
had the potential to make some good aviation stuff.

Jim Hawkins

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"news.ozemail.com.au" wrote in message
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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.



Are there no good German ones ?
If they could make a superb submarine epic like 'Das Boot' they must have
had the potential to make some good aviation stuff.

Jim Hawkins

Good point Jim. I am sure the German film makers of the era had the
capability and talent. Just that during the war any film had to be
propaganda and afterwards there was neither the money nor the inclination.
Now would be a good time but props (aircraft) are very scarce, so model
aircraft and CGI may be the only option.

John

"Jim Hawkins" writes:
"news.ozemail.com.au" wrote:

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.

Are there no good German ones ?
If they could make a superb submarine epic like 'Das Boot' they must have
had the potential to make some good aviation stuff.

You mean like "Quax, der Bruchpilot"? :-)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034076/

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You mean like "Quax, der Bruchpilot"? :-)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034076/


I've seen it a couple of times. Not a bad "Zeitdokument". My
favourit scene is when the instructor dismantles his joystick and
throws it overboard, and Rühmann promtly does the same with his.
P.

I don't know of any movies, I do own a book though titled Heaven Next Stop,
A Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot at War by Gunther Bloemertz. A personal story of
one of the Abbeville Boys who flew FW 190s.

One of those books that you start to read after dinner and before you know
it it is the early hours of the morning.

Well worth the read, amazing stories.

Ric

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"news.ozemail.com.au" wrote in message
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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.



Are there no good German ones ?
If they could make a superb submarine epic like 'Das Boot' they must have
had the potential to make some good aviation stuff.

Jim Hawkins

news.ozemail.com.au wrote:
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.

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Richard Brooks wrote:

news.ozemail.com.au wrote:
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!

Wings

The Great Waldo Pepper

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Richard Brooks wrote:


news.ozemail.com.au wrote:

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!


Richard.


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