F4F Wildcat (2003)
• October 13th, 2003 • 3h 0min
Documentary
Overview
This 2-DVD set focused on the development and combat history of the Grumman F4F Wildcat and was created from holdings at the National Archives, the National Museum of Naval Aviation, the Naval Historical Center, and the Marine Corps Historical Center. The F4F Wildcat was the front-line carrier fighter in the first days of the Pacific war - flying off legendary ships like the Lexington, Saratoga, Hornet, Yorktown, and Enterprise - the Wildcat held the line as America built for victory.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Night Bombers
Released on: 1981-01-01
Documentary
Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
Released on: 2019-08-31
Documentary, Animation, History
September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...
Madame V. Monsieur S.
Released on: 1989-01-01
Documentary
Betty Van Sevenant, a young resistance fighter from Bruges, arrested in March 1942, was declared "Na...
Thanks Girls and Goodbye
Released on: 1988-09-22
Documentary, War
Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Aust...
Cartoons Go To War
Released on: 1996-04-26
Documentary, Animation
This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...
All Against All
Released on: 2019-11-21
Documentary, History
This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th...
Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
Released on: 2006-10-25
Documentary, History
The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.
The Man Who Cracked the Nazi Code: The Story of Alan Turing
Released on: 2014-06-06
Documentary
During the Second World War, the allies' key objective was to crack the German army's encrypted comm...
As If It Were Yesterday
Released on: 1980-09-07
Documentary
Documents the little-known heroism of the Belgian Resistance who, during the Nazi occupation, hid ov...
The Liberation of Paris
Released on: 1944-08-26
Documentary
French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
A Company of Heroes
Released on: 2013-04-02
Documentary, War
Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Divis...
Wings Over Water
Released on: 1986-10-22
Documentary, TV Movie
Wings Over Water tells the fascinating story of naval aviation's critical role in making the U.S. a ...
The Forger
Released on: 2017-05-05
Animation, Documentary
Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...
Wings Up
Released on: 1943-05-27
Documentary
Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Released on: 2018-06-06
Documentary
The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...
Attack of the Zeppelins
Released on: 2013-08-26
Documentary, History
Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppe...
Spying on Hitler’s Army: The Secret Recordings
Released on: 2013-06-02
Drama, Documentary
British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...
Paper City
Released on: 2021-08-16
Documentary
Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continui...