My Air Combat movies list - additions are welcome

[Jim Oxley]

And you can't go past 'The War Lover' for some superb views of a B-17 beating up an airfield!

But my favourite movie is also 'Those Magnificent Men.....' It has many classic (and hilarious) scenes in it, but the most poignant for me is the scene showing them flying out over the English Channel at Dover. Every time I see that I can picture how it would have looked in 1914 when the first RFC units flew over to France. To fight a war in planes not all that dissimilar from those in the movie.

[robert_schulte]

One of my favourites ever is "The Great Waldo Pepper" with Robert Redford. It gives a fantastic feeling for the barnstorming years with great stunts and great actors. The final film scene where Waldo and Ernst Kessler (Ernst Udet?) are performing a stunt dogfight is one of the best flying scenes I have seen.

[Peter Kassak]

What about something about Tuskegee airmen...HBO production...Nice movie...


Peter

[Csaba B. Stenge]

Magyar Sasok (Hungarian Eagles) from 1943. A real wartime movie, many air force pilots were among the actors.

[John P Cooper]

On a more funny side - how about Dr. Strange Love. I really love the B-52 parts with Maj. Kong!

[Six Nifty .50s]

I rather liked The Final Countdown. This film is an excellent primer on the subject of "dissimilar air-to-air combat training".

[--RvB--]

And what about the classical ones?
Like: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944).
-RvB-

[fsbofk]

... or "The Fighting Lady" (1944) - can't beat that for color footage of carriers, Hellcats, Turkeys, and Beasts.

[Y Andersson]

Here are the movies and documentarys that I have in my collection.

Första Divisionen
Gula Divisionen
The Great Waldo Pepper
Blue Max
Aces High
633 Squadron ( Mosquito)
Mosquito Squadron
A Yank in the RAF
Dark Blue World (Spitfire)
Battle of Britain
Memphis Belle (B-17 Flying Fortress)
War Lover)(B-17 Flying Fortress)
Twelve O´Clock High (B-17 Flying Fortress)
We´ll Meet Again (B-17 Flying Fortress)
The Flying Tigers
The Flying Leathernecks
Fighter Squadron, 1948 (P-47)
Target For Today
US Army Air Force Report
Target for Tonight
God is my Co-pilot (P-40)
Thunderbolt (P-47)
The Air Force Story, Vol One
The Fight For The Sky
Mission Accomplished
Smashing of the Reich.
Catch 22 (B-25 Mitchell)
Tora, Tora, Tora
Pearl Harbor
Midway
A Wing and A Prayer
Memphis Belle, 1945
Combat America
The Battle of Britain (Frank Capra)
China Crisis (Flying Tigers 1945)
Kamikaze
Bridges at Toko-Ri (Korean War)
Flight of the Intruder
Top Gun
The Final Countdown

[George Hopp]

It has been said that "Top Gun" would have been a really great movie if they had cut out all the non-flying scenes.