The Last Detail (1973), Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004), Murder Ahoy! (1964), Mare Nostrum (1926), The Wings of Eagles (1957), Navy Blue and Gold (1937), Operation Pacific (1951), The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Navy movies.
Storyline: A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane and parachute to safety when he arrives at the base but is unable to land due to heavy fog. On his first official outing, his poor shooting skills results in the Hellcats losing an air combat competition. His fellow pilots accept him anyway but they think he's crossed the line when they erroneously conclude that while their CO Bill Gary is away, Drake has a purported affair with his wife Lorna. Drake is now an outcast and is prepared to resign from the Navy but his extreme heroism in saving Bill Gary's life turns things around.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: ensign, lieutenant, commanding officer, wife, pilot, brother, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Navy captain (David Carradine) uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.
Plot Keywords: navy seal, naval officer, tense, suspenseful, thrilling, submarine, ocean ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of U.S.S. "Belinda", Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-Navy Captain Jebediah S. Hawks (Jeff Chandler) and ex-merchant Lieutenant Dave MacDougall (George Nader) as boat commander. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty with which to deal as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown". Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew remains far from perfect when the ship sees action, landing troops on enemy beachheads. And few anticipate the challenges in store at Okinawa.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: captain, officer, crew member, doctor, lieutenant, commander, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Subsequent years of meaningless navy ground assignments and the animosity of a former sailor, leave White (now a captain) feeling guilty and empty. His life spirals downward and his wife is about to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced into a dangerous rescue situation at the start of the Koren War.... reassigned to the same submarine where all of his problems began.—WesternWildcard
Plot Keywords: naval officer, husband, captain, crew member, commander, wife, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: To continue a grudge with naval officer Biff Martin, feisty construction worker Chesty O'Connor joins the navy and manages to get stationed on the same ship as Martin. Further complications arise when O'Connor starts dating Martin's sister, whom he meets while on shore leave.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: blue-collar worker, sailor, naval officer, sister, love interest, marine, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
Plot Keywords: gunner, sailor, ex-girlfriend, violinist, nazi, patriotic, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lt. Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine) and his navy crew concoct a plot to make some money from horse racing results, but the plan flops and they ring up a $2,000 debt to a troop of Marines. When they try to recoup their losses, their ship runs into a building, which only compounds their debt. Soon McHale and the klutzy Parker (Tim Conway) devise a new idea: They will steal a racehorse and enter it in a race in disguise, hoping to win the prize money.
Plot Keywords: lieutenant, captain, seaman, radio operator, mechanic, cheeky, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lt. Cmdr. Tom Dodge is assigned as Captain to the USS Stingray, an old diesel driven submarine that has seen better days. With a crew that consists only of weird guys (and a gal), he's headed against the atomic powered USS Orlando, with the mission to destroy a dummy battleship.
Plot Keywords: commander, admiral, naval officer, lieutenant, engineer, nemesis, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Terrorists strike on Sept. 11, 2001, while a teenager (Hayden Panettiere) is visiting her father (Bill Pullman) aboard the USS Constellation.
Plot Keywords: naval officer, father, mother, emotional, spirited, aircraft carrier, pacific ocean ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three times, finally "joins" when, during an air raid, he is mistaken for a real sailor. He soon unwittingly stumbles into the secret hideout of the Nazi spies trying to destroy the Firefly. Complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: waiter, sailor, german spy, nazi, wren, admiral, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lt. Dick Stacey is dismissed from the Fleet Air Arm for poor discipline. He joins the Aircraft Carrier "HMS Ark Royal" (The Ship with Wings). When they go into battle in the Mediterranean he acts heroically and redeems himself.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: pilot, naval officer, nazi, british soldier, brash, tense, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jake Huard, from a shipbuilders family, promised his dying mother he'd make it to Annapolis Naval Academy. Thanks to tenaciously bugging a Congressman he's selected, despite dubious grades. Once inside Jake soon proves sub-standard academically. Constantly challenged to his limits, repeatedly made the 'over-cocky' reason for the entire class to suffer, Jake nearly quits, but after facing his utterly unsupportive father's gloating returns just in time. Stubborn Jake finds support with mates as well as Ali, his lover-to-be, and a discipline he may excel in: the 'brigade' boxing tournament, open to all ranks.
Plot Keywords: young man, father, love interest, naval officer, instructor, roommate, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three decorated Navy pilots finagle a four day leave in San Francisco. They procure a posh suite at the hotel and Commander Crewson, a master of procurement, arranges to populate it with party people. Lieutenant Wallace is trying to get the pilots to make speeches to rally the homefront at shipyard magnate Eddie Turnbill's plants, but they're tired of the war and just want to have fun. While Crewson begins falling in love with Turnbill's fiancée Gwinneth Livingston, he tries to ignore the distant call of war.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
Plot Keywords: pilot, pr person, war profiteer, fiancée, bombshell, witty, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The true story of one of only two U.S. Navy ships that saw combat in World War II with African-American crews.
Plot Keywords: sailor, naval officer, grandfather, crew member, grandson, inspiring, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years.
Plot Keywords: pilot, marine, thrilling, office, navy, corruption, mystery ...
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