Featured Movie of 2010
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by Russell (Joe90) Boyd
This simple, yet incredibly moving film, effectively portrays the sentiment and emotion of the airman who is the hero of William Butler Yeats' 1918 poem.
May 2010
Sabres of the 51st FIW by MysticPuma
April 2010
A tongue-in-cheek trailer for a forthcoming flight sim, Storm of War: Battle of Britain. This movie mixes very clever comedic surprises with combat action, while incorporating a variety of creative movie making techniques, animation, and gaming source material. Absolutely guaranteed to make you laugh!
BoB Storm of War by Doktorkop
A tongue-in-cheek trailer for a forthcoming flight sim, Storm of War: Battle of Britain. This movie mixes very clever comedic surprises with combat action, while incorporating a variety of creative movie making techniques, animation, and gaming source material. Absolutely guaranteed to make you laugh!
January 2010
These three trailers won a contest held by the producers of Rise of Flight, a WWI flight sim released in 2009. While these are very short and designed as trailers as opposed to more substantive story content, they do display many of the cutting edge aspects of Rise Of Flight and convey a sense of the unique feel of WWI aviation.
Part of a series of documentary movies covering the aerial conflict during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Combining IL2 footage with real locations and human actors, this an impressive technical achievement. The actual filming location is the very same location as the wartime Els Monjos Aerodrome depicted.
In this MTV style Music Video, a pilot in the 21st Century takes off in a restored WWII Russian MiG-3 fighter aircraft for a simple test flight. Mysteriously he encounters a time hole and is transported back in time with surprising developments. This movie is unique in its mixing and editing of live WWII documentary footage, contemporary film footage, and IL2 game captures, while also incorporating exceptional chroma keying techniques for inserting human actors into the action.