Favorite aviation movies

Well I Think You Have Covered Most? Anna:o :p 😀 😀

Aircraft Motion Pictures

Pick #1. Dive Bomber (1940)

Shot in color during the transition of USN aircraft
colors from vivid peacetime to drab wartime.
Full Navy co operation shown my those massive
squadron flying sequences. Music is a positive
plus. Available in Video.

Pick#2 Strategic Air Command.
Color, and those flying sequences
are stunning.

Just to be different and in no particular order.

BoB
Dark Blue World
Air America
Angels One Five
Dam Busters
Memphis Belle (Both Versions)
Hanover St (or rather the documentary “Michell’s do Fly in IMC”)
Reach For the Sky
Catch 22 (But the books a lot better)
Apocalypse Now (The Airborne Attack) “Charlie don’t Surf”.
Tora Tora Tora
What’s the film with Richard Drayfus as the ghost of a fire bomber pilot done in the early 90’s

I would have added the Blue Max for its WW1 content, but I reckon its flying sequences look too staged compared to Aces High 🙁

Ooops, sorry.

Finger trouble, I meant….

execrable

Moggy

Originally posted by Moggy C
If you delete the excerable Pearl Harbo(u)r and replace it with Air America, plus find some room for 12 o’clock High and the original Memphis Belle, then that’s about my list too

Moggy

Mog, what exactly does excerable mean?? 😉

BOB the best? 🙂 Anna

Hi,

Airplane! is one of my favourites. Airline and Airport are the best programmes.

Nationwide Air

Originally posted by DazDaMan

Battle of Britain
Dark Blue World
633 Squadron
Aces High
First of the Few
Hell’s Angels
Pearl Harbor (sorry!)
The Dambusters
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Piece of Cake – not a film, I know, but it still kicked ass!

If you delete the excerable Pearl Harbo(u)r and replace it with Air America, plus find some room for 12 o’clock High and the original Memphis Belle, then that’s about my list too

Moggy

King Jester – True Lies

My fave aviation movies:

Battle of Britain
Dark Blue World
633 Squadron
Aces High
First of the Few
Hell’s Angels
Pearl Harbor (sorry!)
The Dambusters
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Piece of Cake – not a film, I know, but it still kicked ass!
Memphis Belle (both versions) 😉

Not in any order:

Dr Strangelove.
Battle of Britain.
Dark blue world.
Dambusters.

I have to say I do like Top Gun for the arial sequences.

Did anybody see the film adaptation of ‘Trinity’s Child?’ Chilling but good. It had James Earl Jones in it but I can’t remember the name of the film, it wasn’t Trinity’s Child.

Also I saw a very good film a short while back about the USAAF 8th Air Force. Considering it was an old black and white film, the acting and the arial sequences were better filmed than Memphis Belle, extremely atmospheric and the worst thing is I can’t remember the name of the film.

Reach for the sky.
Angels 19

Can’t think of any more.

Anyone see Mosquito Squadron last Sunday?
Can’t fault the ‘planes but David McCallum looked like he was sleep acting all the way through.

Still, Hollywood will probably remake it in some way, some day, maybe using a Fortress or two and using British actors to play the baddies – another job for Alan Rickman – like usual!

Flood.

Iv’e just watched the Spirit of St louis starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh

Hey, what about Wings of the Apache??? Okay the acting and story line was **** but it’s not every day u see an AH-64 taking on Drakens and an MD-500 now is it???
Outside of this, ummmmm, The Battle of Britain had some good scenes.

Originally posted by Thomas Cook
Hi,
No movies come to mind but if TV programmes count I would definatly choose Airline or Airport.

Thanks

Thomas Cook

I totally agree

Hi,
No movies come to mind but if TV programmes count I would definatly choose Airline or Airport.

Thanks

Thomas Cook

Originally posted by King Jester
Realism=zero

But I thought Arnie was flying the plane:D

(True Lies)

atc pal wrote:

Empire of the sun.
That kid is as crazy with aircraft as myself
The Mustang airfield attack made me jump out of my chair! Still gives me the goosebumps, whenever I see that scene.

Empire of the sun is fantastic. Extremely profound movie.
I like the scene when the boy leaves the fancy party to fly his glider. He finds the downed japanese plane, crawls into the cockpit wearing dark Ray Bans and plays mock aircombat with the glider. Supreme!! Spielberg at his best.

King Jester

PS: One of the funniest aviation sequences is Ahnold dodging skyscrappers in downtown Miami in a Harrier II. Realism=zero, but very, very funny. Can’t recall the name of the movie, Schwarzenegger and Jamie Curtiss, spy movie…. bad guy gets fired thruw building on the tip of a Sidewinder…..

The Right Stuff – quality!!

Here is a little food for thought-
http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm

Have a flick through and remember the good, the bad, and the down-right ugly that has been released with an aviation theme.

Flood.