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If you liked Air Force, here are some recommendations

posted 15 years ago by eThink
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The following films were made about the US experience in the Pacific in WW II in the six months immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Each of these films are related to an event that was in the movie Air Force.

All of these movies were made during WW II or in the years after WW II. All are in B&W.

1. From Here to Eternity (1953): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045793/ - Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

2. Wake Island (1942): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035530/ - American defense of Wake Island

3. Bataan (1943): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035664/- American defense of the Philippines

4. They Were Expendable (1945): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038160/ - American defense of the Philippines and escape to Australia

5. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037366/ - First American offensive action against Japan

6. A Guy Named Joe (1943): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035959/ - Army Air Force pilot training

7. Pilot #5 (1943): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036265/ - Flying the last patched-up plane in a desperate mission against a Japanese naval invasion force

[–] Xcalat3 15 years ago

thanks

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

[–] joegerardi-1 14 years ago

I'll add:

So Proudly We Hail (Outstanding!)

Dive Bomber

Guadalcanal Diary

Captains of the Clouds (about Canadian pilots)

The Story of G.I.Joe

Battleground (though 1949, it's superb.)

..Joe

[–] browncis 14 years ago

Here are two more movies that I would highly recommend:

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

[–] brihev 10 years ago

If you like Pearl Harbor movies, The Final Countdown is a sci-fi version of
the USS Nimitz going through a hole in time to December 6, 1941, the eve of a date which will live in infamy.

[–] Percivalx 10 years ago

Thanks! I'll be checking them out!

"Let us be crooked, but never common."

[–] moonpuppy_ver1-1 9 years ago

Ditto Dive Bomber to see what Chrome Yellow really looks like on an SBD in Technicolor.

Jim Cagney was in one as a Canadian Bush pilot who ended up being an instructor. Can't recall name now.

[–] creightonhale 9 years ago

Jim Cagney was in one as a Canadian Bush pilot who ended up being an instructor. Can't recall name now.

Captains of the Clouds (1942). Great color cinematography.

"The answers to all of life's riddles can be found in the movies."

[–] moonpuppy_ver1-1 9 years ago

That's it! Saw TCM has it in their Memorial day lineup.

[–] Foster (876) a year ago

GOOD list

Haven't seen or heard of the last one Need to try to find it somewhere