A very old film about British Flying Ace Douglas Bader...I want to try and see if one can stream it.
This became a topic the other day when my wife started telling me about Russian Ace, Aleksey Maresyev another very impressive man. There is also a film on him as well.
The older guys here might have seen it when they were kids.
Seb...I saw Reach for the Sky as a kid. Was the Saturday night movie on SABC many moons ago...the book by the same name was part of Std7 English curriculum at my school...Douglas was selected to play fly-half for England but never got to play for ghem IIRC. Fantastic larger than life story.
Reach For The Sky along with The Dam Busters and Sink the Bismarck are the best of the early war movies. Followed later by The Battle of the Bulge, The Great Escape, Tora, Tora, Tora and the most interesting from a tactical point of view ...Midway.
Of the WW1 movies All’s Quiet on the Western Front and the Blue Max come to mind.
Reach For The Sky is so far from today’s Woke World you would think we are a different species.
Thanks Blob...didn't see your post until I managed to find it on you tube,
Excellent black and white movie with Kenneth Moore Very inspirational. Good sound old fashioned values and manly men with courage and strong sense of duty..
Yes Moz, they certainly don't make them like this anymore.
Saw "Sink the Bismarck" many years ago...another great film about valour.at sea.
Gallipoli is one of the later WW1 films that really works and then there is Lawrence of Arabia.
Gallipoli enjoyed very much...like war movies and those with touches of war parts. The Guns of Navarone, one of old time favourites. The Ship that died in Shame. Bridge over the River Kwai.
Legends of the Fall, The Water Diviner, The Long, the Short and the Tall, Ice Cold in Alex, Carve Her Name with Pride just to mention a few that really moved me.
Yep, all great choices...have you actually seen the Dam Busters....it’s a great example of garage technology making an impact.
So many great war movies over the years.
Hard to name all the classics.
The Bridge on The River Kwai.
The Guns of Navarone.
Zulu.
Dunkirk.
Saving Private Ryan.
The Great Escape.
Glory
Patton.
Casualties of War.
Platoon.
Full Metal Jacket.
Apocalypse Now.
Letters from Iwo Jima.
The Battle Of Algiers.
1917
Hacksaw Ridge.
The Blue Max (filmed in Ireland including Leinster House the seat of Parliament in Ireland where I use to work)
And of course the magnificent Das Boot
Excellent movies as well as being historically accurate would be.
Gettysberg
Waterloo (joint UK and Soviet Production)
Tora Tora Tara (it flopped though)
They Shall Not Grow Old
I did enjoy Braveheart as well by boy is it historically inaccurate.
Not movies but the series Band of Brothers was excellent as was the Pacific.
Yes, Moz,I did watch "Dam Busters" when I was a child, excellent film...like to see it again.
Add "The Battle of the River Plate".
Yes Stav...good list, seen most including The Blue Max (George Peppard) which I had forgotten. The Thin Red Line should be added as well as The Deer Hunter and an excellent 1960's movie The Victors.
Can add, Nicholas Monsarrat's, The Cruel Sea, and The Longest Day,
Russian films Stalingrad,,White Tiger and Come and See (English captions),A Bridge Too Far, War Horse, and excellent mini series...Herman Wouk's :War and Remembrance (as well as Winds of War).
I'm surprised "The Bridge on the River Kwai" wasn't mentioned yet...Kelly's Heroes?
Edit...sorry, I see BotRK was mentioned.
"Not movies but the series Band of Brothers was excellent as was the Pacific."
Really good...I think Tom Hanks produced it after "Saving Private Ryan" to explore the topic some more.
If you guys have not seen the 1963 film...The Victors (highly recommended).
You can stream it on Daily Motion (although advert interruption is annoying.
https://dai.ly/x5hiw9y
Forgot to add in Too Late the Hero and Kelly's Heroes
Cross of Iron was also really good.
While not as good as Zula, Zula Dawn was also pretty good.
There is a few there people have listed that I'd like to see at some point
The Big Red One
The Thin Red Line
All Quiet on the Western Front.
I also never fully seen Stalingrad the 1993 movie, not the more recent one which was meant to be so so.
I also heard that White Tiger was meant to be quite good though it has a sort of super natural. element to it.