Featured Movie of 2010
Checkertails, Star of Altoona by Mysticpuma
"Star of Altoona" is an excerpt from Part 1 of a two-part documentary movie “Checkertails” which features the history of the USAAF 325th Fighter Group. “Checkertails, Part I” details the Fighter Group's history during its P-40 and P-47 era, 1942-1944. This excerpt and the full length movie incorporate never before seen WWII film footage, interviews with veteran 325th pilots, as well as superb IL-2 derived CGI scenes depicting a variety of aerial combat events. “Checkertails, Part I” has a running-time of 1hour and 40 minutes.
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December 2010
"Star of Altoona" is an excerpt from Part 1 of a two-part documentary movie “Checkertails” which features the history of the USAAF 325th Fighter Group. “Checkertails, Part I” details the Fighter Group's history during its P-40 and P-47 era, 1942-1944. This excerpt and the full length movie incorporate never before seen WWII film footage, interviews with veteran 325th pilots, as well as superb IL-2 derived CGI scenes depicting a variety of aerial combat events. “Checkertails, Part I” has a running-time of 1hour and 40 minutes.
September 2010
Hearts and Minds by JaggyRoad films
This is the first “Rise of Flight”-based WWI era movie created by a very experienced producer of FSX flight sim movies, using very artistic effects including color filtering and warm tones, as well as the application of outstanding cinematography. It presents an emotionally unique and moving story about the experience of a young fighter pilot of the American Expeditionary Forces in WWI.
August 2010
Up Close and Personal by XShadowY
Air combat in the Modern Era has been heavily characterized by technology, advanced avionics and weaponry, with pilots encountering a distinctly different experience from that of the earliest pilots and crewmembers of the First World War. This movie draws specific attention to that extremely close proximity of opposing aircraft and associated personal risk which characterized WWI air combat.
May 2010
Operation Ten-Go by Time Bandit
In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, along with nine other Japanese warships embarked from Japan on a deliberate one-way suicide attack against the U.S. Fleet engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. This documentary movie depicts the U.S. Navy response, and the fate of the Yamato.
August 2010
Death of Mannock by Gisbod
A documentary movie depicting the events surrounding the final flight and death of Major Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock, the highest scoring British Ace of World War I. Details of times, locations and involved flyers of both sides are presented in great detail. This is one of a series of documentary movies on the deaths of the most famous WWI fighter pilots, others being “Death of Werner Voss” and “Death of the Red Baron”. This movie makes excellent use of the WWI Flight Simulation “Rise of Flight”.
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.
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.
May 2010
Sabres of the 51st FIW by MysticPuma
Video depicting combat action of Edwin Heller and Dolphin Overton III flying their F-86 Sabres during the Korean war. The two pilots shot down 7 enemy MiG's in just 4-days of action. However both had different fortunes, as depicted in the footage.
April 2010
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!
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.
January 2010
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.