| Welcome to Navy News Cinema, a guide to
movies having to do with the navy - any navy - either as a framework
for fiction, as a setting for the recreation of historical events
or simply as recorded reality, captured by newsreel and documentary
cameras.
We admit the whole of cinema, from the earliest silent pictures
to the computer-driven technology of the present day, as well as
films made for television and even the occasional cartoon. Although
most are English-speaking, all relevant foreign-language productions
that have come to our notice have been incorporated too.
In that connection, we invite visitors to the site to chip
in with details of movies we have overlooked. There must be
many of them - German, Russian, Argentinean, etc., not to mention
further British and American ones. And we are anxious to beef up
the naval detail on titles already listed: locations recognized,
ships identified, errors (grave or comical) spotted - anecdotes,
even, if you happen to have witnessed or taken part in the filming.
We have left out movies where the naval content is peripheral -
a James Bond thriller featuring a single submarine sequence does
not qualify. Descriptions are non-judgmental as regards entertainment
value and the only measure of interest reflected is the naval one.
Titles have been grouped into various categories because it seemed
more interesting to do so.
We have refrained from indicating a title's availability for home
viewing, though this information may be added at some future point.
So far as the UK is concerned, a surprising number of the films
we have catalogued - including many from the 1940s and 50s - can
be had at the big video stores. And even the most obscure titles
may turn up on television, as careful monitoring of the various
terrestrial, satellite and digital channels goes to show. |
