I think Richtoffen & Brown,by Roger Corman (!) touched on Goering being in the Flying Circus.
Not a very good movie, though.
Has anyone mentioned the Red Baron? 
Is it time for a movie about the Red Baron – The Video Game? Where the protagonist must shoot down planes at a distance of miles, while being shot at by triangular bunkers in impossibly steep valleys so tight you cannot turn around.
I’m absolutely amazed they haven’t made a “Serious” Biggles film. There’s umpteen squillion books in the series and they’re not all set in WWI. Although I agree with the esteemed Mr. L.A. that we’re way, way overdue for a decent WWI action flying film. It’d be even better if it wasn’t focused on the folly of war or Americans. 
Johnny, have you seen Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines? It’s pre-WWI but full of vintage aeroplanes and a great film, too.
how much would bi- and tri-planes cost? i’m assuming they have to build new ones. for WWII aircraft, they have to scounge for the actual planes or disguise the more recent ones.
They just released a WWI film about three years ago. The Red Baron staring Lena Headey and a German cast. Really well done film. It’s a shame that it didn’t get a bigger American release. I watched it primarily because Lena was playing Sarah Connor on tv and I wanted to see her in other roles.
You have it a bit backwards though…the earliest planes were used for scouting and artillery spotting, hence they had a crew of two: pilot and observer. Naturally, when these unarmed planed would encounter each other, they would take pot shots using their service weapons. Fighters were later introduced to take out the scouts.
For John, et al 
Quasi
Interestingly, a machine-gun was first fired from an aircraft on June 7, 1912 (A Lewis Gun, from a Wright B Flyer), but a lot of the early air combat weapons were indeed service handguns, rifles, and shotguns.
“Pusher” aircraft (with the propellor behind the fuselage) and top-wing mounted MGs were also quite common until effective machine-gun interrupter gear was developed in 1915.
I know, not strictly relevant to the thread, but there you go. 
I’d love to see a movie about the "Twenty Minuters
The 1979 All Quiet on the Western Front is recent enough to be enjoyable.
The story of how US naval aviation started in WW1 essentially as an volunteer activity of the Yale University Flying Club was a good read when Marc Wortman wrote about it, and might make a good flick (period, of course) too.
If this is going to be a British flick, Mick Mannock might make a better subject than Albert Ball - he’d let the old English class structure stuff be part of the story.
I’ve actually seen and enjoyed all the trench movies mentioned in this thread. If you search the message boards I’ve written about Gallipoli a couple of times.
Absolute agreement about the Americans, but any movie about WWI that isn’t about the folly and horror of war is likely to be unrealistic.
Great Movie!
And, since we’re gettin close to the holidays, this one is for ALL of us who love those “Flying Machines”!
I hope y’all enjoy (especially you, “Flyboy”!
Hope y’all enjoy!
Royal Guardsmen!
Thanks
Quasimodem
PS: It’s supposed a radio news program, okay?
Crank it! It’s in great stereo!
Yep, though I haven’t seen it for many, many years. They just don’t play it as often as they did in the '70s.
I have some Biggles books around here somewhere. Been years since I’ve read them. Maybe I’ll dig them out when it gets less busy.
Good to see you, Martini Enfield!
Indeed.
That being said there are battle scenes in the original that IMO are almost irreproducible. (And are now watchable thanks to the multi-tracked sound).
I direct you to Lawrence of Arabia, which is a WWI movie that’s not about the folly and horror of war (they’re mentioned, but aren’t a focal point of the film). As to to the realism of the film… they certainly took a number of artistic liberties with elements of events, but- well, the film’s rightly considered One Of The Greats.
Interestingly, it’s one of only a tiny handful of films I’m aware of set in the Palestinian Theatre of WWI, too.
My ABOVE post: Y’all do have to listen to it! It’s worth it, I promise! Especially my hood friend, Johnny!
It’s not heard a whole lot these days!
Quasi
“good” friend. He’s not a “hood” AFIK!
Love ya, John!
Bill
“Looping the loop and defying the ground”!
After my 12 jumps skydiving, I did my “Discovery Flight” for a pilot’s license before I went batshit, and the pilot (a friend of mine) shut the engine off while we were up there?
You wouldn’t have wanted hear what I told him when he did that, but it had to do with being inbred and being a motherfucker.
Well, a Southern Redneck, Cocksucking, Piece of Shit, actually.
Luckily, he got that thing cranked back up and laughed his ass off when we landed.
Fucking idiot.
Q