Aviation Movies - your top 5?

In article
s.rr.com, john smith writes
No one mentioned

"A Guy Named Joe"
Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable

"Flying Tigers"
John Wayne

"Operation Crossbow"

Or Red Flyer (1950s film) about a Russian test pilot
The first of the Few (1940s)
Malta Story, about a Spit 9 photo-recce pilot.
--
Mike Lindsay

My top 5 aviation movies:
Top Gun
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (does that count?)
If other people get to count space stuff, I count Apollo 13
The Aviator (the new one)
Pushing Tin

"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.



In no particular order,

The Blue Max (great tale of honor/dishonor)

Catch 22 (Best opener of all movies)

Tora!Tora!Tora! (Took my first date to it in 7th grade)

Always (I could belive in angels more than a guy not giving Marg
Helgenberger a second look, Goodman was great)

Tuskegee Airmen (shows how "bleached" my history books were)

Marty

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:05:57 -0500, "Marty" wrote:


In no particular order,

The Blue Max (great tale of honor/dishonor)

Catch 22 (Best opener of all movies)

Tora!Tora!Tora! (Took my first date to it in 7th grade)

Always (I could belive in angels more than a guy not giving Marg
Helgenberger a second look, Goodman was great)

She's still worth more than a second look. First caught my eye in China Beach.
Whoops, getting seriously O/T here :-(

Tuskegee Airmen (shows how "bleached" my history books were)

Marty

Marty wrote:
Tuskegee Airmen (shows how "bleached" my history books were)

I'm glad somebody mentioned this. Perhaps not as much great footage
as some of the others, but a story that's worth being told.

On Tue, 2 May 2006 16:44:03 +0000 (UTC), Roy Smith wrote:

Marty wrote:
Tuskegee Airmen (shows how "bleached" my history books were)

I'm glad somebody mentioned this. Perhaps not as much great footage
as some of the others, but a story that's worth being told.

There was a recent BBC documentary about these Airmen. Incredible men, all
of them. Determined not just to be capable, but to be the absolute best.
Their war record speaks for them, it's a shame that the society they lived
in at the time was so racist that the mainstream press and the armed forces
could not bring themselves to honour these men as they deserved.

It has resonances with the story of Carl Brashear. The Navy didn't want to
see a black diver succeed. The film history of his life was overplayed and
somewhat distorted, but the "oral history" that Brashear himself recorded
shows the essential truth of what it was like to be black, talented and in
the armed forces during WWII and the subsequent cold war.

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.




Flying Leathernecks: Starring John Wayne.

Real footage from BAttle of Guadalcanal using Grumman Hellcats, Avenger
and PBY Catalina. Spectacular attacks on Japanese Convoy using missiles
and Torpedo's

My top 5:
1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
2. Flight of the Phoenix [old version].
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. Apocalypse Now .

The Monk

In article .com,
Flyingmonk writes
My top 5:
1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

A truly scrumptious movie...

2. Flight of the Phoenix [old version].
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. Apocalypse Now .

The Monk

Cheers,

Dave

--
Dave Eadsforth

Dave Eadsforth wrote:
In article .com,
Flyingmonk writes
My top 5:
1. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

A truly scrumptious movie...

2. Flight of the Phoenix [old version].
3. Memphis Bell.
4. Air America.
5. Apocalypse Now .

The Monk

Cheers,

Dave

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Yeah, I really lighted that movie and D Van Dyke too.

The Monk
Dave Eadsforth