The appearance of the flak against the SBD's struck me as what you've mentioned and I put it down to 'dramatic license'. I did not know that the rear gunners job was to call out the altitudes to let the pilot know when the correct release altitude was reached. I had always thought the pilot had some sort of 'heads up' indicator for that. I know that the Stuka used an automatic release and pull up system to relieve the pilot of some of the work load. Again the extra Zero's over the Hiryu were probably put there by the film makers to make the odds against the SBD's appear greater.
I thought they should have shown a greater number of TBD's along with at least a couple of more torpedo failures to give a truer impression of just how bad the unreliable torpedo situation was during that time.
I'm not sure since I didn't see Midway but some reviewer said that they show Lt.Cmdr Leslie as the lone survivor of the torpedo attack. Wrong man, wrong squadron.
Well, if you ask this question about modern version of it, Iran Iraq war of 80's, the answer would be every single movie that is made about that war by Iran.
But regard to WW2, IMO, Saving Private Ryan is a candidate.
However, I personally am a fan of Russian / Soviet war movies, rather than Hollywood made ones.
To the best of my knowledge, no A-36 was ever used in a war movie (as either German or otherwise).
In the movie "30 Seconds over Tokyo", there is a brief appearance of an early Mustang in the early part of the movie that was either a P-51A or an A-36, but that was it.
Well, if you ask this question about modern version of it, Iran Iraq war of 80's, the answer would be every single movie that is made about that war by Iran.
But regard to WW2, IMO, Saving Private Ryan is a candidate.
However, I personally am a fan of Russian / Soviet war movies, rather than Hollywood made ones.
Regarding 'Saving Private Ryan' I agree both from a historical and a film making standpoint. The film 'The Longest Day" came out in 1962. I simply cannot understand why the film makers did not use that as a guide or template to start from in making SPR. As far as accuracy of action is concerned, the first scene while accurate enough for modern film making still suffers from some details. The only other accurate action scene is the ending, if it is remembered that the actual numbers of troops involved have been dramatically reversed.