"Were there two movies about the Dam Busters?" Topic

I just watched the movie Dam Busters, but the bombs were spherical rather than drum-shaped and there was nothing about giving the bomb back-spin before dropping.

I distinctly remember watching a movie where the drum bomb was spun before dropping.

Are there two movies about the Dam Busters? If so, what's the other one?

And no, I'm not thinking of the NOVA special.

Thanks

From Wikipedia a Wiki feature is a listing of books movies TV etc for a topic The following link doe not include the proposed remake but otherwise seems complete The movie you may be thinking of could be633 Squadron mentioned under the 1955 movie section

In popular culture

A 1954 radio dramatisation of Paul Brickhill's book The Dam Busters, produced by Australasian Radio in 26 half-hour episodes, is available for download in zipped MP3 format at Old Time Radio.
A 1955 film, The Dam Busters was made about the raids and was very popular. Its depiction of the raid, along with a similar sequence in the film 633 Squadron, provided the inspiration for the Death Star trench run in Star Wars: A New Hope. The film is also watched on television by the character Pink in the 1982 film, Pink Floyd The Wall.
In 1984, a home computer combat flight simulator The Dam Busters was made based on this operation.
A 1989 British commercial for Carling Black Label lager reused footage from the attack sequence of the 1955 film, with a wily German sentry (played by Jon Glentoran, stage name of the artist Jon Dixon) on top of the dam catching the perfectly spherical bombs in the manner of a football goalkeeper. The pilot of the attacking Lancaster then delivers the brand slogan: "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label!" A subsequent Carling commercial also used bouncing bomb imagery, this time to enable a British holidaymaker to beat the Germans to the sun beds.
On 12 February 2003, the operation was the subject of an episode of the PBS series Secrets of the Dead, entitled "Bombing Nazi Dams".[29]
On 1 September 2006, it was announced that Peter Jackson would produce a remake of the 1955 movie, to be directed by Christian Rivers with production starting in 2008.
On 16 May 2008, a commemorative event to mark the 65th anniversary was held at Derwent Reservoir, Derbyshire, including a flypast by the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane. The event was attended by Les Munro, the only surviving pilot from the original raid, and Richard Todd the actor who played Wing Commander Guy Gibson in the 1955 film. Vic Hallam's Derwent Valley Museum, located on top of the Derwent Reservoir Dam, also tells the tale of Squadron 617 and its training for Operation Chastise.
In 2011, a project was initiated to recreate a Dambusters raid. Buffalo Airways was involved in the recreation, being selected as the company to fly the mission, with their own plane and pilots.[30] Buffalo would drop a recreation 'Upkeep' bouncing bomb from their Douglas DC-4.[31] The project was documented in the documentary television show "Dambusters Fly Again in Canada", and "Dambusters: Building the Bouncing Bomb" in the UK, and the Nova episode "Bombing Hitler's Dams": in the U.S.[32] It involved dropping a replica dummy bomb, and blowing up a recreation dam.[33][34] The filming of the documentary was itself documented as part of the Ice Pilots NWT reality series, that follows Buffalo Airways, in season 3 episode 2 "Dambusters".[35]

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The bombs were still classified when the film was made and much of it was guesswork based on some footage of "Highball", a similar weapon designed to attack ships.

"Mosquito Squadron" 1968 used the spherical bombs dropped from Mosquito's. Mosquito's were used to test the concept before Wallace went to the cylinder shape.

Still waiting for the Jackson film!

The cylindrical bombs were still classified until the archives were released under the 50-year rule in the 1990s.