Kamikaze
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	Typical documentary scene of destruction caused by kamikaze attacks [1]

Films - Lists

The following lists relate to films on Japan's special attack forces.

Best Documentaries (in English)

The following list ranks documentaries in terms of the following factors: historical accuracy and completeness, insights into feelings and motivations of participants, images, script and narration, and sound effects. Please note that this ranking refers to the documentaries' coverage of special attack forces, including aerial kamikaze attacks. Some documentaries, such as The World at War and Victory at Sea, cover a very broad scope, so this listing is not meant to be an evaluation of the entire documentary series. Only the first five films listed below are recommended. The others have significant shortcomings in their coverage of special attack forces, especially with regard to completeness and historical accuracy.

1. Timewatch: Kamikaze
2. Dogfights: Kamikaze
3. Day of the Kamikaze: November 25, 1944
4. Battle Line: Okinawa
5. Kamikaze: Mission of Death
6. War Stories with Oliver North: Attack of the Japanese Midget Subs!
7. Day of the Kamikaze / Eyewitness Kamikaze
8. Sinking the Supership
9. Japan's War in Colour
10. Kamikaze in Color
11. The World at War
12. D-Days in the Pacific: The Final Graveyard
13. Okinawa: The Last Battle
14. The Fleet That Came to Stay
15. Hero Ships: USS Laffey
16. Inside Ten Days: A tribute to the men of the USS Columbia CL-56
17. Untold Stories of WWII: Three Secrets that Changed the War
18. No Surrender: German and Japanese Kamikazes
19. Victory at Sea
20. Great Blunders of WWII: The Failure of the Kamikaze
21. Gladiators of World War II: The Kamikazes
22. Typhoon at Okinawa
23. Kamikaze: Death From the Sky
24. Kamikaze: To Die For the Emperor
    Kamikaze / War in the Pacific (same as above but with different title)
25. Carriers: Kamikaze
26. S.O.S. Catastrophe: Typhoons and Kamikaze
27. Kamikaze
28. Suicide Attack

Documentaries (in English) by Original Release Year

The year shown in the list below represents the year the documentary originally was released. For example, Battle Line was a weekly program on network TV in 1963, so this year has been shown rather than 1991, the year Time-Life Video released the program videos.

1945	The Fleet That Came to Stay
1950	Suicide Attack
1952	Victory at Sea
1961	Kamikaze
1963	Battle Line: Okinawa
1973	The World at War
1980	Kamikaze: Mission of Death
1982	Typhoon at Okinawa
1989	Kamikaze: Death From the Sky
1990	Carriers: Kamikaze
1991	Kamikaze: To Die For the Emperor
	Kamikaze / War in the Pacific (same as above but with different title)
1995	Okinawa: The Last Battle
	Timewatch: Kamikaze
1998	Great Blunders of WWII: The Failure of the Kamikaze
	S.O.S. Catastrophe: Typhoons and Kamikaze
	Untold Stories of WWII: Three Secrets that Changed the War
2001	Gladiators of World War II: The Kamikazes
2002	Kamikaze in Color
	War Stories with Oliver North: Attack of the Japanese Midget Subs!
2003	Japan's War in Colour
	No Surrender: German and Japanese Kamikazes
2004	Day of the Kamikaze: November 25, 1944
	D-Days in the Pacific: The Final Graveyard
2005	Sinking the Supership
2006	Inside Ten Days: A tribute to the men of the USS Columbia CL-56
2007	Day of the Kamikaze / Eyewitness Kamikaze
2008	Dogfights: Kamikaze
	Hero Ships: USS Laffey

My Favorite Japanese Films on Kamikaze Pilots

1. Gekkō no Natsu (Summer of the Moonlight Sonata)
2. Ningen no Tsubasa (Wings of a Man)
3. Nijūroku ya mairi (A Moon Twenty-six Days Old)

Note

1. This photo shows the carrier Saratoga burning after kamikaze hit on February 21, 1945 (US Navy photograph).