Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown
There are war stories, and then there are War Stories. Captain Winkle Brown was a Zelig of the Second World War and beyond.
2014 · 1h Documentary
Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
Britain's Greatest Pilot: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown
Overview
Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown recounts his flying experiences, encounters with the Nazis and other adventures leading up to and during the Second World War. Illustrated with archive footage and Captain Brown's own photos.
Director and cast
More films
The Secret Glory (2001)
Documentary · N/A
A British-produced documentary about the bizarre life of Nazi SS officer Otto Rahn, focused on his search for the mystical Holy Grail of Christ.
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Director
- Richard Stanley
- Cast
- Hans-Jürgen Lange, Otto Rahn
The True Glory (1945)
Documentary · War · N/A
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen. It opens as the assembled allied forces plan and train for the D-Day invasion at bases in Great Britain and covers all the major events of the war in Europe from the Normandy landings to the fall of Berlin.
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Director
- Carol Reed, Garson Kanin
- Cast
- Leslie Banks, Robert Harris, Sam Levene
The Third Reich In Color (1998)
Documentary · N/A
This remarkable trove of color footage, assembled from far-flung private and state collections, presents Hitler's Europe as never seen before. Amateur film enthusiasts - soldiers, tourists, Hitler's own pilot, even Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun - began experimenting with color film in the late 1930s, their camera eye recording the Third...
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Director
- Michael Kloft
The Laughing Man (1966)
Documentary · N/A
Posing as West German journalists, East German documentary filmmakers Heynowski and Scheumann pay a visit to the notorious Nazi-turned-mercenary Siegfried “Kongo” Müller, pump him with booze, and get him to talk about his life and war campaigns in Africa.
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- Director
- Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann
- Cast
- Siegfried Müller, Hermann Herlinghaus
My Favorite War (2020)
Animation · Documentary · History · N/A
Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Cast
- Mare Eihe, Madara Bore, Regīna Razuma
Comments
Talk about the film with other members