Thread: Advice on good Nautical Movies

Capt. Jack Aubrey: To wives and sweethearts.
Officers: To wives and sweethearts!
Capt. Jack Aubrey: May they never meet.


Long we've tossed on the rolling main
now we're save ashore, Jack
don't forget your old shipmate
fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe

Originally Posted by Tank

If you can download the TV series of Hornblower,

if anyone wants this, let me know, i'll make it available for download.

edit: i was bored n set it up

http://203.122.220.188/

you will find 6 eps here

Sleepy
I few years ago I was faced with something similar when my mum/dad came over for Christmas. They were in their 80's at the time, (both gone now)!
My dad was an ex soldier in WW2 --Paratrooper 6th airborne landed at D Day etc.etc

We had a few movies on hand to entertain etc. But I could tell he was getting a bit bored with the selection.

My eldest son Rhys who was sporting a Wales Rugby shirt Christams present with his name sake on it, produced a DVD, Wales versus the All Blacks !
Hey Grandad Harry, wanna watch this?

Wazzat? Upon seeing the title--I remember "uh now you are talking!"

With cans (tinneys) of Boddingtons and glasses we could have been at Cardiff Arms Park-----In Colorado
Just a thought as a surprise alternative.
Merry Christmas
Dennis
zedcars

Originally Posted by Eevo

Capt. Jack Aubrey: To wives and sweethearts.
Officers: To wives and sweethearts!
Capt. Jack Aubrey: May they never meet.


Long we've tossed on the rolling main
now we're save ashore, Jack
don't forget your old shipmate
fal dee ral dee ral dee rye eye doe

OMG,, another Patrick Obrian Tragic,,,

X5 for 'Das Boot'

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

OMG,, another Patrick Obrian Tragic,,,

I'm a Patrick O'Brian tragic as well, over 20 fascinating books, PIA that he died while writing the last one, literally. C.S. Forresters Hornblower series, Julian Stockwin's Thomas Paine Kidd series of war at sea in sailing ships.
Alexander Kent with his Richard Bolitho series (around 24 books), and Richard Woodman's books of Nathaniel Drinkwaters adventures.
All of these books cover what I believe is the greatest stories ever told of War at sea between the British Navy and almost the rest of the World, fascinating true events of past Navies, suppose you could say I'm a Tragic, Regards Frank.

started on Forrester, moved on to Kent then Obrian,,
I've read all of Forresters, I have nearly all of Kents on my shelf, I think I'm missing around six Obrians.

Fullertons series about WW2 are good too,,

Brian Callison has a funny style,, but if you like the way he does it the series is very entertaining,,
Especially the Edward Trapp mini-series

Just Remembered another good Cold War sea movie called "The Bedford Incident" with Richard Widmark as the Commander of a guided missile Destroyer stalking a Russian Sub in the Arctic seas, Sidney Poitier is a guest Journalist/photographer aboard. An interesting, extremely entertaining, make you think film with great actors and action, Regards Frank.