My Air Combat movies list - additions are welcome

[Jim Oxley]

My passion is to do with the B-29 Superfortress. Films I have are:

The Thunder From Tinian
Nova: Frozen In Time
American War Eagles: The B-29 Superfortress
Birth Of The B-29
Target Tokyo - First B-29 Superfortress Raid to Tokyo
Flying The Bombers: B-29
Above And Beyond

All but the last are documentaries/training films. Above And Beyond is a very well done Hollywood film on Paul Tibbets and the dropping of the Atom Bomb.

It's always surprised/disappointed me that Hollywood only ever made one film on the most powerful bomber of the war - and perhaps the greatest aircraft of that period.

[Franz von Werra]

It's always surprised/disappointed me that Hollywood only ever made one film on the most powerful bomber of the war - and perhaps the greatest aircraft of that period.

Yeah, right. Too little recognition for such a beautiful plane.

BTW I saw it in the first stages of The Right Stuff. You oughta watch that movie!!

[Jim Oxley]

I have it.

[gaynako]

There are a lot of films (no documentary) which show the B-29 :

-The wild blue yonder 1951
-The bamboo blonde 1946
-Above and beyond 1953
-The beginning or the end 1947
-Sabre jet 1954
-Hell's horizon 1955
-Enola gay 1980
-The last flight of the Noah's ark 1980
-The right stuff 1983
-Riders of the storm 1986

Best

Christian

[Jim Oxley]

There's a difference (to me) of films that show the B-29 as a guest appearance and one where the aircraft is a main star.

Of the ones you mentioned only Above and Beyond (which I have) and The Wild Blue Yonder show any good footage of the B-29. With the others the plane is just background, sadly.

[gaynako]

I cannnot agree with you and I wonder if you have seen those films... I have them all and I can say that, except "Sabre Jet" and "The right stuff", in others films, B-29 is a real "actor" no background, with outside and inside shootings (pilots in cockpit, mecanich station, gunners in action...), in flight and on the ground, and is, in fact, the only plane used by the production in most of them.
B-29 scenes can be quite long (40 min for "Hell's horizon", 22 min. for "Enola Gay"; 14 min. for "the Beginning or the end"). I recommend those last 3 films.

Best

Christian

[Jim Oxley]

Thats your perogative.