Ending- "Von Richthofen & Brown"

A beautiful-looking film with good flying and nice airplanes but not historically accurate. Notes on errors in this clip:

Brown's squadron was flying Sopwith Camels not the S.E.5a's seen in the film. Richthofen and Brown never engaged in a "dogfight". Richthofen had begun a chase after novice Canadian pilot Wilfrid May, who had earlier fired at and missed Richthofen's cousin Wolfram (another novice) in the air on this day. Seeing May in trouble, Brown dove after Richthofen, but he was still some distance back when he had the chance to open fire at Richthofen as the three planes headed towards the British lines at low altitude. Latest research appears to point to an Australian machine-gunner -several hundred yards away and to the side of Richthofen's path of flight- as being the one who fired the fatal shot.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• richthofen
• red
• baron
• roy
• brown
• ww1

[SquallFM]

For me The Best World War I movie in color with "The Blue Max" 1966 John Guillermin and "Aces High" 1976 Jack Gold !!!

[Wailwulf]

History is all wrong.

Gorring did not join Jasta 11 until after MvR's death.

The only plane brought down in that fight was MvR and his Red Dr1.

Jasta should have been in Dr 1's, not Pfalzs and Fokker D7's (Which hadn't been delivered to the front yet).

BUT at least the planes are flying like planes instead of jets as has been happening with the CGI movies.

[Wailwulf]

Agreed on the stupid move.

The celebration before MvR crashes is a story telling element, sort of a 'flash forward' instead of a flashback.

[canadianmaple09]

How come the model airplanes they used always get to the top of the loop and then blow up? It's so unrealistic!

[geoffart]

is alright, just - how did the plane land when the pilot was shot dead? and, even if the plane luckily happened to land, how did it stay stable in the air for enough time for the british pilot to land his own plane?

[Verdunveteran]

thats, right! The Aussi's name was Snowy Evans.

[Manfred1257]

where can i download this movie?????

or buy????

[WranglerSlim]

Great scenes! However, it took more shots to down a plane back then, and engine explosions weren't actually that common. It was rare for anyone to down more than one or two planes in one flight as he would have ran out of ammo before then. Richthofen was also, as has been said before, shot down by ground-fire, though Brown did manage a few shots at him. Also, Richthofen wouldn't have made HALF the mistakes this movie portrays, especially the one at around 6:25.

[PaulLMF]

i wonder what he was really like. After reading the translations of his journals, he appears to have a rather dry & funny wit.

He realised the pointlessness of it all, yet upheld the highest Prussian military traditions.

He respected his enemies and fought using his head...

At least thats the way he comes across, who really knows? there are so many tragedies in war, but sure one is, that it takes a war to create such icons.

[Tir1962]

Don't diss gunslinger too much he is actually right....the red baron was killed by ground fire but what use would that have been to the english propaganda machine...dont get mad at me either, we all have propaganda machines.