Dark Blue World

[proton45]

Here is a list I started (and finished with some help) of "air combat" movies over on the "Ubi forum"... this list pretty much includes everything... "the good, the bad, and the embarrassing"

Here is the compiled list:

1. Blue Max
2. Tora! Tora! Tora!
3. Pearl Harbor
4. The Dam Busters (1954)
5. Angels one five
6. Twelve O'Clock High
7. A Guy Named Joe
8. The Battle of Britain
9. Flyboys
11. Hells Angles (1930)
12. The Dawn Patrol (1930, 193
13. Mosquito Squadron
14. Memphis Belle
15. Midway (1976)
16. 633 Squadron
17. Empire of the Sun (1987)
18. Torpedonostsy (Torpedo Bombers) (a Russian movie...the name could be wrong)
19. Catch-22
20. Dark Blue World (2001)
21. Flying Leathernecks (1951)
22. Flying Tigers (1942)
23. Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku (2007) AKA: I Go To Die For You / For Those we Love
24. One of Our Aircraft is Missing (1942)
25. Reach for the Sky (1956)
26. Talvisota (The Winter War) (1989)
27. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
28. The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
29. The Wings of Eagles (1957)
30. Aces High (1976)
31. Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)
32. Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
33. Der Rote Baron (200
34. Wings (1927)
35. Flat Top (1952)
36. Top Gun (1986)
37. The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
38. God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
39. Ace of Aces (1933)
40. Strategic Air Command (1955)
41. The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
42. Zeppelin (1971)
43. V boy idut odni stariki (1973) AKA: Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
44. Ozora no samurai (1976) AKA: Samurai of the sky
45. Kato Hayabusa Sentotai (1944) AKA: Kato's Perigrine Falcon Squadron
46. Spitfire / The First of the Few

Some more...

47. Flying Fortress (1942)
48. Stukas (1941)
49. Tsubasa no Gaika (1942) AKA: (A Triumph of Wings)
50. A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
51. Captains of the Clouds (1942)
52. Desperate Journey (1942)
53. Aerial Gunner (1943)
54. Air Force (1943)
55. Bombardier (1943)
56. Jet Pilot (1957)

Some Kamikaze movies

57. Aa tokubetsu kougekitai (1960) AKA: Special Attack Corps
58. Taiheiyou no Tsubasa (1963) AKA: Wings of the Pacific
59. Shutsugeki (1964) AKA: Sortie
60. Saigo no Tokkoutai (1970) AKA: The Last Kamikaze

I added your films

61. The Hunters (195
62. The War Lover (1962)
63. Appointment in London (1952)

Russian films (From FPSOLKOR):

64. I Ty Uvidish Nebo (197 AKA: And you will see the sky
65. Hroniki pikiruyushego bombardirovshika (1967) AKA: Chronicles of a dive bomber
66. Istrebiteli (1939) AKA: Fighters
67. Ljotchiki (1935) AKA: Pilots
68. Nebo Moskvy (1944) AKA: Moscow sky
69. Normandija Neman (1960) AKA: Normandie-Nieman
70. Povest o nastoyashchem cheloveke (194 AKA: A Real Man Story
71. Sluchay v kvadrate 36-80 (1982) AKA: An Occasion in a Square 38-60
72. Tri protsenta riska (1985) AKA: Three Per cent of Risk

Here are some more modern Japanese "Kamikaze" movies...

73. Gekkou no Natsu (1993) AKA: Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
74. Ningen no Tsubasa (1995) AKA: Wings of a Man
75. Hotaru (2001) Firefly

More Russian films (From FPSOLKOR):

76. Vozdushniy izvozchik (1943) AKA: Sky taxi
77. Nebesnii tihohod (1945) AKA: Sky slow mover
78. Ohota na edinoroga (1989) AKA: A hunt for the Unicorn
79. Der Stern von Afrika (1957) AKA: The Star of Africa
80. Chistoe Nebo (1961) AKA: Clear Sky
81. Peregon (2006) AKA: Ferry flight
82. Dva kapitana (1955) AKA: Two captains
83. V nebe nochnye vedmy (1981) AKA: Night Witches in the Sky
84. Baltiyskoe nebo (1960) AKA: Baltic sky


If anyone wants to check out the thread (how it all went down) here it is...

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...6/m/9311087676

[proton45]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

Ive seen it...cool movie...of course there is a love triangle heh but the movie is great...btw it is good that the movie is chechz because, overall, european war movies are better (more historic, less pathetic, u name it) than most of the hollywood stuff (ok we all know a list of good hollywood war movies which are exceptions)...also japanese war movies are also pretty pathetic
movie list for you:
EU:
Das Boot - Germany
Stalingrad - Germany
Der Untergang - Germany
Rukajärven tie (Ambush) - Finland
Talvisota (Winter War) - Finlad
Tmavomodry Svet (Dark Blue world) - Czech Republic
Idi i smotri (Russia)
Ivanovo detstvo (Russia)
Zvezda (Russia)

USA:
Platoon
Thin Red Line
Black Hawk Down
Apocalypse Now
Rescue Dawn
Full Metal Jacket
Saving private Ryan (first part of the movie which is moralising free)
The longest day
A bridge too far
Cross of Iron

Just curious...How many Japanese war movies have you seen? Have you ever seen "Nobi" (Fires on the Plain), or "Biruma no tategoto" (The Burmese Harp)? Both films are powerful statements on war. WW2 is a difficult subject and you will find that most of the good war movies (in Japan) are samurai films...You can draw a parallel between Sci-fi tv in the USA and samurai films in Japan. At one time, in the USA, if you wanted to discuss anti-war, abortion, terrorism, McCarthyism, inter-racial sex, ect. you had to "hide" it in a sci-fi story (Star Trek, Twilight Zone). And for many years in Japan issues of war and combat where hidden in "chambara" movies...

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Tvrdi

movie list for you:
EU:
Das Boot - Germany
Stalingrad - Germany
Der Untergang - Germany
Rukajärven tie (Ambush) - Finland
Talvisota (Winter War) - Finlad
Tmavomodry Svet (Dark Blue world) - Czech Republic
Idi i smotri (Russia)
Ivanovo detstvo (Russia)
Zvezda (Russia)

USA:
Platoon
Thin Red Line
Black Hawk Down
Apocalypse Now
Rescue Dawn
Full Metal Jacket
Saving private Ryan (first part of the movie which is moralising free)
The longest day
A bridge too far
Cross of Iron

Great list Tvrdi! I would like to see Hollywood try a remake on "Idi i smotri" - or rather NOT Even though I love the poetic parts of "The Thin Red Line" and some other US movies, they seldom leave such an impression as european movies does - in my opinon. A good war movie makes me embarrased for playing a game like IL2 Most Hollywood movies makes me want to go playing...

[WTE_Galway]

The fact that "Pearl Harbor" is missing from those lists is amusing, and to be applauded