I know this topic comes up every so often, but I thought I would try and compile a list of "Air Combat Movies" that people might enjoy... These movies can be WW1, WW2, Korean, or anytime and any war (No Sci-Fi). I have not included documentary's or TV shows (I may add TV dramas, but no documentary's).


If anyone notices a movie I have forgotten please add it (I know that this list is just a place to start).

ENJOY and Happy Movie Watching!!!


01. Blue Max (1966)
02. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
03. Pearl Harbor (2001)
04. The Dam Busters (1954)
05. Angels one five (1952)
06. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
07. A Guy Named Joe (1943)
08. The Battle of Britain (1969)
09. Flyboys
11. Hells Angles (1930)
12. The Dawn Patrol (1930, 1938)
13. Mosquito Squadron (1969)
14. Memphis Belle (1990)
15. Midway (1976)
16. 633 Squadron (1964)
17. Empire of the Sun (1987)
18. Torpedonostsy (Torpedo Bombers) (a Russian movie...the name could be wrong)
19. Catch-22 (1970)
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 (2008)
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 (1958)
62. The War Lover (1962)
63. Appointment in London (1952)

Russian films (From FPSOLKOR):

64. I Ty Uvidish Nebo (1978) 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 (1948) 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

Two more films I forgot somehow (I saw "the purple plain" late at night on TCM a few months ago and really enjoyed it...I don't know how I forgot about it). And I don't like the "Iron Eagle" (and have not seen them all...I assume that they all contain the air combat found in the first one) films but here they are (I think I blocked them out_LOL)

85. The Purple Plain (1954)
86. Iron Eagle (1986)
87. Iron Eagle II (1988)
88. Iron Eagle III (1992)
89. Iron Eagle IV (1995)

Here are some more Japanese films...

90. Hawai Middouei daikaikusen: Taiheiyo no arashi (1960) AKA: Storm Over the Pacific
91. Hawai mare oki kaisen (1942) AKA: Battle of Pearl Harbor and the Malay Coast
92. Zerosen moyu (1984) AKA: Zero Fighter Burns
93. 燃ゆる大空 (1939-1940?) AKA: Burning it is loose the skies
94. 決戦の大空へ (1943) AKA: To skies of decisive battle
95. 雷撃隊出動 (1944) AKA: Torpedo attack party move

Here is a German movie I would love to see (about Hans-Joachim M****ille. I love the music in the clip)

96. DER STERN VON AFRICA (1957) AKA: The Star Of Africa


If anyone can think of other films I have left off the list, please let me know and I will edit (add)...

This message has been edited. Last edited by: zardozid,

I think I'll just ad the Hunters and The Final Countdown to it.

The War lover.............top movie!

LoL!!

Hi all,

I would add this overlooked master piece.

'Appointment in London'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045513/


Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

http://www.avroheritage.com/index.htm

I think The Blue Max is probably my fave. I liked the air combat scenes in it. Lots of good films there though.

How about "The Right Stuff"?

EDIT: Just thought of more. "Jet Pilot", with John Wayne and Janet Leigh, "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, and "By Dawn's Early Light" with Powers Boothe and Rebecca De Mornay.

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Originally posted by crucislancer:
How about "The Right Stuff"?

EDIT: Just thought of more. "Jet Pilot", with John Wayne and Janet Leigh, "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, and "By Dawn's Early Light" with Powers Boothe and Rebecca De Mornay.

"The Right Stuff" is more about the space race right? I know it deals with the issue of test pilots becoming astronauts, but...I made a judgment call. Their is no combat, or hardware and it doesn't really focus on war stuff...good movie though.

Did I miss "Jet Pilot"? I guess I did, but "Strategic Air Command" is number 40. I have not added TV shows and movies yet so I didn't get into stuff like "By Dawn's Early Light". Thanks

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Originally posted by MB_Avro_UK:
Hi all,

I would add this overlooked master piece.

'Appointment in London'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045513/


Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

http://www.avroheritage.com/index.htm

Nice...I'll add it to the list.

Man, I could watch Errol Flynn & David Niven's in Dawn Patrol every night for the rest of my life and still want to watch it in heaven or wherever I might be going later on down the road.

I think the best part of that movie is when Errol & the Gang are partying with the captured German Pilot who shot down Nivens & then there's Nivens in the doorway, Flynn just about soils himself & then when explained who he is to the German, the German Hugs Nivens and the party continues.

1948's "Fighter Squadron" with Edmund O'Brien and Robert Stack flying P-47s

1954's "Men of the Fighting Lady" Korean War carrier action starring Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn and Frank Lovejoy

1957's "Battle Hymn" Korean War flick about Dean Hess flying P-51s training Korean pilots starring Rock Hudson and James Edwards

How could you possibly forget to add to your list:

Flight of The Intruder w/Danny Glover & Willem Dafoe.

Does anybody remember a TV Series called "Air Combat" which came out in 1993?

Behind Enemey Lines w/Owen Wilson & Gene Hackman

Command Decision w/Clark Gable (1949)

Air Force (1943)

Walter Grauman w/Cliff Robertson (1964)

Hannover Street w/Harrison Ford (1979)

The War Lover w/Steve McQueen & Robert Wagner (1962)

Oh Yeah, Iron Eagle I, II & III

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Originally posted by Odin_Part_2:
How could you possibly forget to add to your list:

Flight of The Intruder w/Danny Glover & Willem Dafoe.

Does anybody remember a TV Series called "Air Combat" which came out in 1993?

Behind Enemey Lines w/Owen Wilson & Gene Hackman

Command Decision w/Clark Gable (1949)

Air Force (1943)

Walter Grauman w/Cliff Robertson (1964)

Hannover Street w/Harrison Ford (1979)

The War Lover w/Steve McQueen & Robert Wagner (1962)

Oh Yeah, Iron Eagle I, II & III

I guess I forgot "Firefox" (1982) too...but that's what this thread is for. I want to try and compile as complete a list of movies that contains "air battle footage", "air force hardware", "dog fights", "historical details", WW1, WW2, Korea, and anything air combat related, be it drama or "docu-drama" as possible. No documentary's or television (at this time)...

I thought of "Hannover Street" but I couldn't remember how much of the movie has aeroplanes in it...and I think I got "Air Force".

I'm really interested in the Japanese movies - a different perspective.

Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku seems to be a modern movie that makes tasteful use of special effects. The planes seem accurate.

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Originally posted by Metatron_123:
I'm really interested in the Japanese movies - a different perspective.

Ore wa, kimi no tame ni koso shini ni iku seems to be a modern movie that makes tasteful use of special effects. The planes seem accurate.

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

64. Gekkou no Natsu (1993) AKA: Summer of the Moonlight Sonata
65. Ningen no Tsubasa (1995) AKA: Wings of a Man
66. Hotaru (2001) Firefly