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When Hollywood Ruled The Skies - Volumes 1 through 4 by Bruce Oriss


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Picked up a new war movie today for $3:

The Guns Of Navarone.


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I was moving my vhs's today, and I had to add, SPITFIRE with David Niven, on how it came to be and the life of te designer. I also remember a coldwar one, filsafe??? with slim pickins?? ridding the A-bomb dwn?
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I was moving my vhs's today, and I had to add, SPITFIRE with David Niven, on how it came to be and the life of te designer. I also remember a coldwar one, filsafe??? with slim pickins?? ridding the A-bomb dwn?
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You mean "Dr. Strangelove" Or "How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb"

"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"


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THATS IT

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Slim Pickens taking inventory of the survival kit is still one of the funniest things I have ever seen in a movie.


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Patton
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Black Hawk Down
Das Boot
The Black Book
The Iron Cross
A Bridge Too Far
The Cruel Sea
The Bedford Incident (Cold war but cool nonetheless)
Dr. Strangelove (It has B-52's)
Run Silent Run Deep
In Harm's Way
The Hunt for the REd October
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
The STory of GI Joe (About Ernie Pyle)
Captain Horatio Hornblower (one with Gregory Peck and another from the A&E Series)
The Great Raid
Letters from Iwo Jima
Flags of Our Fathers
Alexander Nevsky
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Battleship Potemkin
A Wing and A Prayer
Memphis Belle
The Right STuff (Okay, not a war movie but cool nonetheless)
Gladiator
The Dam Busters
The Desert Fox
The Desert Rats
Midway
Mister Roberts
Atonement (set during a war)
Fat Man and Little Boy
Empire of the Sun
darn the Defiant
Master and Commander
GEttysburg
Gods and Generals
From Here to Eternity
The Wall (It's got scenes of WWII in it)
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Gunner Palace
Three Kings
Kelly's Heroes
Pork Chop Hill
The Sand Pebbles
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Downfall
Enemy at the Gates
Doctor Zhivago

Probably a few others.


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Forgot..."Uncommon Valor". :D I like it anyway.

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633 Squadron
Memphis Belle
Battle of Britain
Pearl Harbor (sorry! :oops: )
Dark Blue World
Mosquito Squadron
First of the Few (Spitfire)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Midway
Malta Story
Reach for the Sky
Angels One-Five
Appointment in London
The Dam Busters
The Dawn Patrol
Aces High
Hell's Angels
The Blue Max
Wings
Flyboys
The Great Waldo Pepper
Flying Tigers
The Flying Leathernecks
Top Gun
Stealth
Wing and a Prayer
A Yank in the RAF
Twelve O'Clock High
The Aviator
Piece of Cake
The Tuskegee Airmen
Baa-Baa Black Sheep

Enemy at the Gates
Saving Private Ryan
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters from Iwo Jima
Saints and Soldiers
The Great Escape
Von Ryan's Express
Das Boot
Black Book
Soldier of Orange
Days of Glory
Empire of the Sun
A Bridge Too Far
The Eagle Has Landed
Platoon
Three Kings
Full Metal Jacket

I think that's just about all of them!

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