Dogfights - The Complete Season One (History Channel)
by Robert Kirk, Wayne Weiss
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Actor: Barrett Tillman, Frederick Blesse, Phil Crowley, Ralph Parr, Robinson RisnerDirector: Robert Kirk, Wayne Weiss
Brand: A&E
Writer: Wayne Weiss
Producer: Abe Scheuermann
Producer: Brooks Wachtel
Writer: Brooks Wachtel
Writer: Arthur Drooker
Writer: Cynthia Harrison
Writer: Debbie Blum
Writer: Doug Miller
Writer: Douglas Miller
Writer: Greg DeHart
Writer: Jason McKinley
Writer: Jonathan B. Taylor
Writer: Richard Mueller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 517 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
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- History's most thrilling aerial battles can now be experienced as never before--from inside the cockpit. Legendary aircraft like the F8 Crusader, the F6F Hellcat, the P40 Tomahawk, and more are brought back to life as DOGFIGHTS takes viewers straight into the heat of the aerial action. The original pilots themselves narrate these battles, illuminating the capabilities and histories of these
DVD Reviews of Dogfights - The Complete Season One (History Channel)
DVD Review: Outstanding!
Summary: 5 Stars
This four dvd set has some really beautiful highlights. The CGI is fabulous. The resulting episodes are visually arresting - much more lifelike than actual combat footage, which tends to be grainy or washed out. The CGI is so accurate that even the reflections on the fuselage of each aircraft follow the sun as the pilots maintain an orbit above or around a target, or pursue their enemy. The sequences of aerial combat are very fluid and very close to the sort of dogfight scenarios that one might visualize without having had the actual experience of air combat.
"Long Odds", a WWII segment that features "Old 666", a B-17 outfitted with thirteen .50 calibre machine guns and heavier armament. That Flying Fortress was tasked with the reconnaissance of Japanese troop movements over various land locations. Old 666 was involved in a 45-minute dogfight, facing an overwhelming Japanese presence. Its pilot, Jay Zeamer won the Medal of Honor for his heroism. Ultimately, the crew of Old 666 became the most Highly decorated B-17 crew of WWII. A great story.
"The Hunt for the Bismark" and "Death of the Japanese Navy" depict WWII aerial engagements involving naval vessels. The latter episode is a CGI adaptation of the actions surrounding Taffy III, and how that task force, which was cut off from the rest of the US Pacific fleet for a few days, managed to inflict serious damage on Japanese naval forces in the straights of the Phillipine islands.
"MIG Alley" illustrates the leap in jet technology during the Koean War and the effect it had on aerial combat and the resulting high speed problems each pilot faced are explained in surprising detail. Ace Pilots Frederick "Boots" Blesse, Robbie Risner and Ralph Parr give great commentary.
"Air Ambush" with commentary by by legendary Air Force Ace Robin Olds depicts the F4 Phantom and a rather unusual mission assigned to their Pilots and Radar Intercept Officers. It's difficult to imagine to be at the top front of all that raw power. This episode has a brief flashback - sort of a story within a story - to his days as a P-38 combat pilot in the skies over western Europe during World War II. "Hell Over Hanoi" is also about the F4 Phantom over Vietnam, with narration by Fred Olmsted and Dan Cherry. Again, Great CGI.
As a bonus on disc one, "One Inch from Out of Control," features commentary by Willie "Irish" Driscoll and Randy "Duke" Cunningham and is simply put, amazing. At the controls of the USS Constallation's VF-96 "Showtime 100," the Pilot and RIO score three MIG kills and escape a Surface to Air Missile hit which tears their Phantom apart and with only nanoseconds to spare, eject into the waters of the south China Sea.
There isn't much about World War I, but the series' introductory episode feautres a segment devoted to Eddie Rickenbacker and the techniques of aerial combat that he and other notables such as Manfred Von Richtoffen helped to develop and are still studied by combat pilots today.
To its credit, the History Channel also put together a CGI series that dealt more with ground combat in World War II, but the CGI didn't work all that well. Even though the historical information was accurately depicted, the CGI wasn't nearly what it should have been mostly by virtue of the complicated nature of recreating computer-generated human beings. In other words, the soldiers didn't look real.
"Dogfights" Seasons One is a four dvd set that I highly recommend. Devotees of air combat will find themselves watching many of these episodes several times to get all of the nuance of the air engagements depicted on these dvds.
Description of Dogfights - The Complete Season One (History Channel)
Harnessing the technology from the latest cgi video game flight simulators this puts the viewers behind the cockpit pitted against enemy aircraft in 11 of modern historys greatest air battles. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 04/24/2007 Run time: 517 minutesBestsellers in DVD
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