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 four 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. Battle Line: Okinawa
3. Kamikaze: Mission of Death
4. Sinking the Supership
5. Japan's War in Colour
6. Kamikaze in Color
7. The World at War
8. The Fleet That Came to Stay
9. Untold Stories of WWII: Three Secrets that Changed the War
10. No Surrender: German and Japanese Kamikazes
11. Victory at Sea
12. Great Blunders of WWII: The Failure of the Kamikaze
13. Gladiators of World War II: The Kamikazes
14. Typhoon at Okinawa
15. Kamikaze: Death From the Sky
16. Kamikaze: To Die For the Emperor
    Kamikaze / War in the Pacific (same as above but with different title)
17. Carriers: Kamikaze
18. S.O.S. Catastrophe: Typhoons and Kamikaze
19. Kamikaze
20. 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	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
2003	Japan's War in Colour
	No Surrender: German and Japanese Kamikazes
2005	Sinking the Supership

My Favorite Japanese Films on Kamikaze Pilots

1. Gekkou no Natsu (Summer of the Moonlight Sonata)
2. Ningen no Tsubasa (Wings of a Man)
3. Nijuuroku 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).