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Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Embarrassing rubbish
As a flying and war movie buff, this ranks at he bottom of my list. It is historically completely inaccurate and the cast sounds and acts like they just stepped out of a high-school play. The acting, script, direction, production standards and casting are all garbage. The only saving grace is some of the flying sequences. If the people they portray were fictitious, I might rate it a 2, but if there is one thing that annoys me more than anything else in movies, it is pretending that this is history and that the great people they are trying to be, actually did this! Its almost as if they tried to write in as many notable WW1 personalities as possible.There are many good WW1 flying films and this is NOT one of them.
Wings (1977)
Wings is on DVD
It appears to be available on DVD from an English company called Rare TV
I agree that this is an outstanding series and if you know anything about WW1 aviation, the dialog includes many historically correct details about tactics and military aviation of the time.
There is something of a resurgence in WW1 movies right now, with Joyuex Noel, The Trench, A Very Long Engagement and others coming to mind. Lets hope it continues.
Always hoped a follow series would be filmed. With Peter Jackson owning a whole bunch of WW1 aircraft here in NZ (which all fly) and a WW1 tank, perhaps it can be his next project after his remake of Dam Busters.