WWI Aviation Films - Concise List

Hey folks. I'm on a ravenous hunt for all the WWI aviation films ever made. If you have a good list to provide, please post it with your comments. BTW, how was the Dawn Patrol remake as compared to the original? Strange to see a remake appear after only 8 years.

Also, if you know where to find some of the rare ones I could use a link! Amazon.com has a few but not sure who else carries them.

[Barrett]

I've never seen the original Dawn Patrol, though the '38 version evidently used some flying scenes from it.
Off the top of my helmet (English language only):

Wings
Hell's Angels
Lilac Time
Ace of Aces
The Eagle & The Hawk
Richthofen & Brown (yuk!)
Aces High (?)
Darling Lili
The Blue Towel...er..Max (sorry, Jeni--that Guy Thing y'know)
The Great Waldo Pepper sorta qualifies

Barret,

Can you give me a rating on the flying sequences in these films?

Try BELLE & BLADE HOME VIDEO they have almost all available movies of ww1 aviation I also have collected most of them.
ACE OF ACES
ACES HIGH
THE BLUE MAX
CRIMSON ROMANCE
DARLING LILI
THE DAWN PATROL (1930)aka THE FLIGHT COMANDER
THE DAWN PATROL (1938)
THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK (only movie with Cary Grant as villian)
FIGHTER ACES
FOUR YEARS OF THUNDER
THE GREAT WALDO PEPPER
HELL'S ANGELS
LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE
LILAC TIME
THE LOST SQUADRON
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN AND THEIR FLYING MACHINES
THE RED BARON
VON RICHTOFEN AND BROWN
WHERE THEY FLEW AND WHERE THEY FELL
WINGS
ZEPPELIN
WW1,AMERICA TAKES TO THE AIR ,VOL. 1
WW1: THE FIGHT FOR THE SKYS
REACH FOR THE SKY

Heres my list, hope it helps,
TA TA, and Cheerio;
Lt. Dwight Rudder, RFC
' BILLY BISHOP RULES!!!'

Chris,
You could try searching through the Internet Movie Database.
http://us.imdb.com (US)
http://uk.imdb.com (UK)
Cheers
Paul

Chris & Barrett:
The second version of "The Dawn Patrol" was released to capitalize on Errol Flynn's growing stardome (not to mention the fact that sound recording technology had improved vastly between 1930 and 1938). Incidentally, the Flynn/Niven version has no new flying footage; it re-used all of the aerial footage from the original (which was produced by First National, a studio bought by Warner Bros.).

Dwight:
Do you have "The Lost Squadron"? (I see it on your list.) I'd be very interested in obtaining a copy of that one.

[Barrett]

Chris, I can't rate the flying scenes in all these pix 'cause I ain't seen 'em all. Have been told that Lilac Time has very little flying, for instance. No offense to the LTA fans out there but I'm sorry--the best Zeppelin flying scenes ever filmed in the world-wide world just aren't exciting! "Zeppelin" and the Zep scene in "Hell's Angels" are interesting for the interiors.
There's qite a lot of flying in "Wings" and "Hell's Angels" but most of the latter is centered around a captured "Gotha" that's actually a Barling or something. Wings is great--see it fershure.
I'd rate flying as OK in "Dawn Patrol" and "Eagle & Hawk." The latter is notable for heavy use of DH-4s. I don't recall the flying in "Ace of Aces," which was far more a psychological study, as was Eagle-Hawk. I draw a complete blank for "Aces High" and "vR&Brown" so apparently what flying there was just didn't impress me.
"Blue Max" and "Darling Lilly" both have some excellent aerial sequences, tho there's more in TBM. While I don't include TMMATFM as a WW I film (it's set in 1910), the airplanes are excellent and there's more air time than any comparable film. As I've noted before, "Magnificent Men" gets my vote as the best/most enjoyable aviation film yet made. And there's the luscious Irina Demick in that towel on the beach...
But of course we haven't seen Mutley's Luke film. How 'bout front=row seats for us Forumites at the premiere???

Mutley, you going to put any towel scenes in the Luke movie to satisfy Barrett's fetish??

One you've missed so far is BIGGLES (1985ish). No authentic aircraft but some quite fun flying scenes all the same.



"If you can fly a Sopwith Camel you can fly anything!" shouts Biggles as he climbs into a Bell Jetranger pursued by armed police)

Val Kilmer in a towel would full fill a towel fetish for me!
Jeni

[Barrett]

Man oh man! This thread is so hot that I gotta go drt off. Anybody have a towel handy?
Oh, thanks, Ursula...