bintananth
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"War is the continuation of politics by other means." - Carl von Clauzewitz
War Film recommendations
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I'd say it counts.
There's also Test Pilot (1938):
Test Pilot (film) - Wikipedia
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The Army let the film crew borrow a Y1B-17 for some of it. The Army did not let them set one of their shiny new prototypes on fire. IIRC they did that to a DC-2.
Don't forget this film! :
The Big Parade - Wikipedia
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Operations Room did a video on a little known Dogfight that occurred in the Indian Ocean back around the same time of the Libyan Incident.
Yes when I was watching the video it took a moment for me to process since I never heard of the Mig-28 and by a few seconds in I realized it was an April Fools Joke. But having never seen Top Gun (at least old enough to remember it) it still took a minute or two for me to realize... Oh this must be the Top Gun movie.
I love how the Narrator managed to maintain the same professional tone throughout the video though, treating the ridiculous as quite serious.
www.19fortyfive.com
But yeah it seems to be an in-film replacement for the real life MiG-29 and as stated before, were apparently F-5's used by American 'Aggressor' asquadrons typically used in training exercises for actual American and Allied pilots.
I love how the Narrator managed to maintain the same professional tone throughout the video though, treating the ridiculous as quite serious.
MiG-28 Fighter: The Story of the Russian Super Fighter In Top Gun
With the long-awaited “Top Gun” sequel now delayed until the world is finished contending with the coronavirus, we’re left with no alternative but to revisit the 1986 classic for the millionth time, and as may come as no surprise to you, it still holds up. The story of Pete “Maverick” Mitchel...
www.19fortyfive.com
But yeah it seems to be an in-film replacement for the real life MiG-29 and as stated before, were apparently F-5's used by American 'Aggressor' asquadrons typically used in training exercises for actual American and Allied pilots.
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Not to mention that fighters used odd numbers in their designation. Mig 15, 17, 19, 21 etc.
bintananth
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By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
Someone nukes Donetesk and all initial evidence says "The US did it." The Sovets predictbly launch. When they figure out who actually did it the race is on to stop it from getting worse.
It follows five groups of people.
- The President and his staff
- The Secretary of the Interior on an Air Force One (he's a hothead with a toady wispering "do it" in his ear)
- An Air Force General on a comand and control plane (James Earl Jones Sr.)
- The General in the NORAD command center
- A B-52 bomber crew (co-pilot's a woman, which is a nice surprise for a movie that old)
Someone nukes Donetesk and all initial evidence says "The US did it." The Sovets predictbly launch. When they figure out who actually did it the race is on to stop it from getting worse.
It follows five groups of people.
- The President and his staff
- The Secretary of the Interior on an Air Force One (he's a hothead with a toady wispering "do it" in his ear)
- An Air Force General on a comand and control plane (James Earl Jones Sr.)
- The General in the NORAD command center
- A B-52 bomber crew (co-pilot's a woman, which is a nice surprise for a movie that old)
edgeworthy
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For shameless flag-waving done well try Away All Boats.
Away All Boats - Wikipedia
Away All Boats - Wikipedia
bintananth
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YouTube sent Rommel (2012) my way.
It's in German with subtitles. My first impression was "I need to set aside 2hrs to watch this without any interruptions."
It's in German with subtitles. My first impression was "I need to set aside 2hrs to watch this without any interruptions."
When a Soviet Typhoon Class Submarine went rogue back in 1984.
Interesting video put out by the channel Smashing UK Productions where they list their Best War Film From Year from 1921 through to 2021. So it starts in the Silent era basically with a Silent Movie called The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an American Silent War film epic up to the 2021 South Korean political action thriller Escape from Mogadishu and like many of the 98 films or so mentioned in the video, ones I have no knowledge or even have heard of before.
(Vlogging Through History Reaction Video)
(Original Video)
There's a lot of films here that I've had to add to my future watching lists including a plethora of foreign films and some quite recent which is surprising.
Actual List of Movies:
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(Vlogging Through History Reaction Video)
(Original Video)
There's a lot of films here that I've had to add to my future watching lists including a plethora of foreign films and some quite recent which is surprising.
Actual List of Movies:
The Best War Film From Every Year
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Paul Giamatti, who portrayed a minor character in Saving Private Ryan, a paratrooper named Sergeant Hill, had some interesting insight in how Spielburg approached making that film.
(5:07 in)
"I've done other war things, but that was innovate what [Steven Spielberg] was doing in that movie. I don't know how many Steadicam operators there were at one time operating. It was not terribly structured, necessarily. It was very loosely blocked so that these guys were running around catching whatever they can almost like documentary filmmakers. And so they were all falling over and banging into each other. He didn't want it coordinated. It was a living scene. You weren't cutting all the time and stopping and resetting.
"I think I just fell because it was incredibly slippery and muddy. Everybody was falling all the time. I think from that, Spielberg starting developing this idea that the guy, his leg was messed up and he had a thing in his shoe, and he started just making that up. He would come over and give us a scenario and some lines. I didn't really have… there was no part, really. It was very, very sketched in. I didn't really have a character."
(5:07 in)
"I've done other war things, but that was innovate what [Steven Spielberg] was doing in that movie. I don't know how many Steadicam operators there were at one time operating. It was not terribly structured, necessarily. It was very loosely blocked so that these guys were running around catching whatever they can almost like documentary filmmakers. And so they were all falling over and banging into each other. He didn't want it coordinated. It was a living scene. You weren't cutting all the time and stopping and resetting.
"I think I just fell because it was incredibly slippery and muddy. Everybody was falling all the time. I think from that, Spielberg starting developing this idea that the guy, his leg was messed up and he had a thing in his shoe, and he started just making that up. He would come over and give us a scenario and some lines. I didn't really have… there was no part, really. It was very, very sketched in. I didn't really have a character."
Sergeant Foley
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*"Saving Private Ryan"
*"The Tuskegee Airmen"
*"Miracle at Saint Anna"
*"Red Tails"
*"The Tuskegee Airmen"
*"Miracle at Saint Anna"
*"Red Tails"
Most are interesting films in the World War Cinematic Universe AFAIK.
BF110C4
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Between The Tuskegee Airmen and Red Tails I actually recommend the former. I felt that in Red Tails they added too many unnecessary elements for drama while the former decided that the struggle of the black pilots could rightfully carry the movie by itself.