you don't mention some of my favourites :

'journey together' - poor old dickie attenborough NEVER manages to land his trainer !! but some great scenes - including lancasters !!

'the dam busters' - some good 'atmosphere' - pity they only could fly the same lancs over and over !

'appointment in london' - good old dirk bogarde !! again some excellent atmosphere ! lancs again !!

anybody else any ideas ?

jettisoning

how about these

Odette....  first of the few

633 sqn...   the coldittz story

carve her name with pride....the longest day...battle of the river plate

one of our planes is missing....the sea shall not have them

the wooden horse....sink the bismark ...ice cold in alex

all great films but I must say you can't beat a good old black and white film on a dreary sunday afternoon

 

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I wish the film companies would produce more WW2 movies. So many brilliant stories. If they are well done people will go and see them like Saving Private Ryan which did big numbers at the box office.

Most Hollywood stuff they put out these days is truly awful...heard someone say recently...after watching some of them you need a visit with a shrink.

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Forgot to login: Index434

I'm surprised that none of you mentioned "A Bridge Too Far" authored by Cornelius Ryan, which I feel was one of the best World War 11 movies, and very factual, as compared to "The Great Escape" with it's American accent.

When I was a Kid, I saw a movie called "Born for Glory" which was about the Royal Navy in World War 1.  I have always wanted to see it again.  anybody ever hear of it?

 

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I have discovered a site called YouTube.

If you put it into google and then put for example-Bomber Command,Lancaster Bombers,Halifaxes etc into the search box, it will bring up small film clips.

There are also a couple of good interviews with ex Bomber Command Veterans.

Some of the clips are from newsreel footage and others seem to be "stolen|" from other sites but on the whole quite interesting.

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There is virtually no limit to what you can find on You Tube.

 

Congrats on your commission Linda!

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 I wonder what the re make of The Dambusters will be like,especially as they are going to be all politically correct and re name the dog!

I think they have started filming now but does any one know any details or who the actors are going to be?

I hope they keep the music!

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No word so far on the actors, one thing we know for certain with jackson steering it there will be exceptional attention to detail. It'll also likely be 3 hours long  too! 

The whole dog's name thing is silly, do we really need to know the dog's name in the film or even have the dog in there to begin with? Gibson can refer to the dog as "boy" if need be, seems a logical compromise.

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Matt have you had a chance to view the Band Of Brothers series? Was based on their true story.

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Band of Brothers was a great miniseries, I suppose we should maybe run a separate thread to poll the best miniseries ever made. My pick would be Band of Brothers for that one, I also like Piece of Cake, a series about the Battle of Britain.

I've often thought that a great miniseries could be made about Bomber Command, start it off with early raids in Blenheims, the debacle with the Manchester, the thousand bomber raid etc.

I think another great idea would be a minseries on the BCATP (this one is likely much less expensive) perhaps from the  standpoint of the Instructors AND pupils.

All I need is $40-50 million and I'm on my way..... 

 

 

I notice Index 434 mentioned ’12 o’clock’ high in his list, I would really like to support its inclusion.  If you haven’t seen it, you must catch it.  It is about the Eighth Air force, but I am sure anyone interested in the Bomber Offensive would enjoy it.

 

It is based on a true story – the casualties suffered by the 306th BG shortly after they began operations from England.  It tells the story of a new commander being posted in to the 918th BG (306 x 3!) and how he tries to turn them around.  It was written by an officer who served with the unit and is, I think, the most accurate portrayal of the Eighths offensive (much better than Memphis Belle - modern version - imho) It is also an absolute classic study of leadership styles - I actually first saw this during my own officer training. 

 

Enjoy

 Mark

Haven't any of you guys ever seen Catch 22?  It was about the U.S.A.A.F. 15th Air Force in Italy.  Catch 22 meant that you could get ou of flying on operations if you could prove you were insane.  But, if you had the capability of proving that you were insane, then you were sane enough to fly operations.

I agree that "12 )'Clock High was an excellent movie, and very realistic for the 8th Air Force.  I copied it from the Public Channel and have it now.  Almost time to waatch it again, and thanks for reminding me.

However, I still think the best two war movies are "Dad's Army" and "Allo, Allo"  The first because Dad's Army were trying to catch me while I was doing Evader training out of Dalton.  The second because the French Resistance kept the German Army equivalent of Dad's Army from finding me.

Once you've seen all the blood and gore, it's time for a bit of humor.

Yes Matt, Dalton was called Battle School where we learned how to evade if we were ever shot down.  It paid me very well from what I learned there as I never let the German searchers get a glimpse of me.

We were taken way out in the country, let off, and told to make our ways back to base.  Dad's Army was assigned the task of catching us and ours to avoid them.  There were rumors going around that we would be stripped naked and dumped in the local gaol.

On the final operation, all the airmen found a bus going to Middlesborough, so we went there, drank all night, and took the train back home.  Cost us all a week confined to station.  We went on to #1659 C.U. at Topcliffe.

The boy in the striped pajamas.