The Blue Max poster

The Blue Max

There was no quiet on the Western Front!

6.8(129)19662h 36m4

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

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Status
Released
Budget
$5M
Box office
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Language
English
  • countryside
  • germany
  • world war i
  • air force
  • fighter airplane
  • code of honor
  • biplane
  • propeller airplane
  • exploding airplane
  • medal of honor
  • military airplane
  • flying ace

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United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG21 Jun 1966
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalPG29 Jun 1966
  • AustraliaAU

    • PhysicalPGDVD31 May 2010
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1226 Aug 1966
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical1229 Jul 1966
  • MexicoMX

    • Theatrical15 Dec 1966
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Physical12DVD, Blu Ray10 May 2006

Frequently asked questions

The Blue Max was released on 21 June 1966.

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  • W

    Wuchak

    11/30/2019

    9/10

    ***World War I aerial combat from the German perspective*** During World War I a low-class German soldier, Bruno Stachel (George Peppard), transfers from the muddy trenches to the aristocratic air officer corps. Stachel becomes a bit of a fish out of water with his new higher class comrades-in-arms, but this doesn't bother him as Stachel is interested in only one thing: gunning down twenty enemy planes to get the …

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