Good movies for BoomBoomStick

[DaveSchilling]

Roight! Movies... Aircraft... Beer... Snack... Mix the last ones with these movies:

Battle of Britain - a must see from 1969!
Flight of the Intruder - really good Vietnam flight movie, A6 Intruders..
Pearl Harbor - atleast decent flight scenes (yeah!)..
The first of the few - great WW2 film about the Spitfire, really good. With David Niven.
The Tuskegee airmen - dat black guy from Matrix and some pals in P-51s. Good HBO production.
The Dam Busters - classic! Makes you wanna go for that dam on Alpine Meadows! ;)
633 Squadron - Mossies and cool music, not a bad one even if a bit cheesy..
Air Force - 1943 movie about a B-17, pretty cool! Lots of action and evil Japs..
Dark Blue World - good Czech one with some outtakes from Battle of Britain and some new footage.
First Light - Geoffrey Wellum, a BoB-vet´s memoir (or part of). Outtakes from BoB and some new scenes. Good.
Les Chevaliers du Ciel - French jet movie - it is French but good (!) ;) Stunning scenes.
Memphis Belle - a must. Really good.
Midway - some good F4F action and lots of real footage. I like it! But there are loads of scenes with F6Fs, F4Us etc. Not realy present at Midway, were they? :P
Reach for the Sky - Douglas Bader, he is a grand chap!
The Hunters Robert Mitchum flying F-86s in Korea.
The Bridges at Toko Ri - F9Fs in Korea, a really nice movie!
Tora" Tora" Tora! Pearl Harbor, nice flight scenes and exciting. Gotta love the P-40s!

More to come later...

And then there is Dogights! & War Heroes of the Sky from History Channel (?) Some whinge about those but they are not that bad..

[PapaPnut]

Add: The Great Waldo Pepper

Brilliant movie staring Robert Redford. Set after WWI, Redford is a brilliant pilot who just missed flying in WWI and is really bummed about it. Scratching out a living barnstorming (lots of cool bi-plane stunt & wing walking sequences), the movie concludes with an Epic dogfight between Redford and the German ace Ernst Kessler (modeled after Ernst Udet Germany's 2nd highest scoring ace of WWI) on a movie set filming a recreation of Kessler's greatest engagement. They take off in aFokker Dr.I and a Sopwith Camel secretly swapping out blanks for live ammo and duke it out for real. Intense cinematography.

[DWEnvision]

Red Tails (2012)

A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.

[The_Toe_Of_Bo]

Planes: A cropdusting plane with a fear of heights lives his dream of competing in a famous around-the-world aerial race.

[DaveSchilling]

Planes: A cropdusting plane with a fear of heights lives his dream of competing in a famous around-the-world aerial race.

Dave´s replay (possibly) shooting and bombing Toe (?)..

[Cloud Chaser]

great post. thanks. I will have to look up some of these films

[DaddyWabbit]

Planes: A cropdusting plane with a fear of heights lives his dream of competing in a famous around-the-world aerial race.

i know right ,,how in the hell did that not make list.. one of my favs!

[DaveSchilling]

Hehe, yeah. Well the post was a reply from Vent on a certain specific subject - hence why. Ditto for Red Tails, we were discussing that very movie.

[The_Toe_Of_Bo]

i know right ,,how in the hell did that not make list.. one of my favs!

Skipper is the nuts!!