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09-08-2016, 09:24 AM
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OT: Military Aviation Movies
While on a general search for some Cold War themed movies I found this site
http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/avmovie.htm It's a list of various aviation themed movies and gives a very brief summary of the movie and a note of the aircraft involved. It's an old list (it has notation for those movies available in North America on VHS cassette!) but has a good range of movies and has various items of trivia such as the Spitfire MkIIa used in the film Battle of Britain was an actual veteran of the Battle of Britain. 
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09-09-2016, 05:29 PM
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Came across a couple of interesting lists for best war movies:
Paths of Glory Gallipoli Platoon Full Metal Jacket Timberland Band of Brothers Blackhawk Down The Pacific Restroom Major Dundee Fort Apache She Wore A Yellow Ribbon Horse Soldiers Buffalo Soldiers Charge of the Light Brigade We Were Soldiers
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09-09-2016, 08:18 PM
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Flight of the Intruder
Firefox Memphis Belle The Bridges of Toko-Ri Flying Tigers 30 Seconds Over Tokyo Midway Tora! Tora! Tora!
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#4
09-09-2016, 10:27 PM
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Behind Enemy Lines By Dawn's Early Light Dr Strangelove Flying Leathernecks Iron Eagle I, II, II & IV Pearl Harbor Stealth The Blue Max Top Gun But I don't think any aviation war movie beats the Battle of Britain. Can't actually think of any war movie in the air that comes near it.
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09-10-2016, 04:24 AM
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Most of the aviation themed movies mentioned by copeab & RN7 are in the Military Aviation Movies list. It's only those movies from the late 1990s - early 2000s on that aren't included so the 2001 Pearl Harbor movie isn't on the list for example.
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09-11-2016, 05:49 PM
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Who can ever forget "THE GOLDEN BB" from Air America?
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09-11-2016, 11:37 PM
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Avoid Pearl Harbor: Tora!Tora!Tora! is much, much better, and more historically accurate.
That Golden BB scene in Air America is a hoot. One peasant with a single-shot rifle brings down a C-123. Battle of Britain is the best, but there's Flight of the Intruder, Firefox, Iron Eagle (I is the best, stay away from the others), Top Gun, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo are good. For T2K? Try By Dawn's Early Light. That might be possible for an alternate campaign setting....either in CONUS or Western Europe.
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09-14-2016, 01:09 AM
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How did we forget Hot Shots!
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