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1. Masters of the Air (2024)
TV-MA | 56 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside an aluminum bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle antiaircraft fire and unrelenting flocks of German fighters.
Stars: Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Austin Butler, Darragh Cowley
Votes: 43,046
2. Airplane! (1980)
PG | 88 min | Comedy
After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.
Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Votes: 261,196 | Gross: $83.40M
3. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr
Votes: 56,806 | Gross: $27.15M
4. Devotion (II) (2022)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.
Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski
Votes: 27,951
5. Catch-22 (1970)
R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel
Votes: 26,508 | Gross: $24.91M
6. The Thing from Another World (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
Directors: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks | Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, James Arness, Robert Cornthwaite
Votes: 33,367
7. Airport (1970)
G | 137 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Directors: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg
Votes: 21,692 | Gross: $100.49M
8. Memphis Belle (1990)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in the UK prepares for its 25th and final bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney
Votes: 30,536 | Gross: $27.44M
9. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, War
A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 15,804
10. The Dam Busters (1955)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, History, War
Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Basil Sydney
Votes: 11,370
11. Fail Safe (1964)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 24,411
12. The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
PG | 113 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, George Kennedy
Votes: 6,956 | Gross: $13.00M
13. Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)
G | 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy
Votes: 20,226
14. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Passed | 138 min | Drama, History, War
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock
Votes: 6,461
15. Strategic Air Command (1955)
Approved | 112 min | Action, Drama, War
An ex-pilot and current baseballer is recalled into the U.S. Air Force and assumes an increasingly important role in Cold War deterrence.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 4,082
16. Sole Survivor (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy
This story is loosely based on the discovery of the B-24 "Liberator" bomber the "Lady Be Good" that was found in the Libyan desert after the crew got lost on their 1st bombing mission to Italy.
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Vince Edwards, Richard Basehart, William Shatner, Lou Antonio
Votes: 984
17. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Votes: 2,530
18. The War Lover (1962)
Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In 1943, while stationed in Britain, arrogant Captain Buzz Rickson is in command of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, but his recklessness is endangering everyone around him.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Anne Field, Gary Cockrell
Votes: 2,120
19. Skyjacked (1972)
PG | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins
Votes: 2,342 | Gross: $2.50M
20. Air Force (1943)
Approved | 124 min | Action, Drama, History
The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 3,816
21. Johnny in the Clouds (1945)
87 min | Drama, Romance, War
The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 1,645
22. Flight Crew (2016)
TV-14 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Aircraft crew members must put off their differences when a natural disaster threatens to death hundreds of tourists.
Director: Nikolay Lebedev | Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Sergey Kempo
Votes: 6,003
23. Target for Tonight (1941)
Approved | 48 min | Documentary, Drama, War
The planning and implementation of an RAF night raid on Germany in World War II, concentrating on a low level mission by a Wellington bomber on an oil storage facility by the Rhine.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: John Cobb, Richard Peirse, Percy Charles Pickard, Robert Saundby
Votes: 406
24. Bombardier (1943)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, War
Major "Chick" Davis is convinced that high-level bombing will win the next war. He convinces the powers-that-be to set up a bombardier school. He efficiently sets about training the USAAF's first generation of high-level bombardiers.
Directors: Richard Wallace, Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert
Votes: 897
25. Journey Together (1945)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, War
British propaganda film from WWII stressing the importance of the navigator on RAF's bomber crews.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling, David Tomlinson, Stuart Latham
Votes: 262
26. Target for Today (1944)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary about one bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning of the mission thru its final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.
Director: William Keighley
Votes: 84
27. Ekipazh (1980)
PG-13 | 144 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
Director: Aleksandr Mitta | Stars: Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Vasilev, Leonid Filatov, Alexandra Yakovleva
Votes: 2,633
28. The Brylcreem Boys (1998)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1941, as part of an effort to remain strictly neutral, the Dublin government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier, sailor or pilot captured on Irish soil, whether ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Ryan | Stars: Billy Campbell, Chris 'Kit' Ryan, Jean Butler, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 626
29. Kandagar (2010)
103 min | Action, Drama, War
Based on the true story of five Russian pilots captured by the Taliban. They are forced to spend three-hundred-seventy-eight days in hell, while facing questions of loyalty, survival and planing their treacherous escape route home.
Director: Andrey Kavun | Stars: Aleksandr Baluev, Yury Belyayev, Bogdan Benyuk, Aleksandr Golubev
Votes: 2,157
30. Simoun (2006)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the world of Daikuuriku, everyone is born female, and chooses which sex they wish to become at age 17. In this world, the peaceful theocracy of Simulacrum is guarded by magical flying ... See full summary »
Stars: Mamiko Noto, Nana Mizuki, Megumi Toyoguchi, Houko Kuwashima
Votes: 168
31. The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, War
In 1943, Capt. Harold Calvert is sent to Kansas to learn to fly the newest American bomber, the B-29 Superfortress. One of the instructors is Major Tom West, a cousin of the captain. Being ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris
Votes: 138
32. Treffpunkt Flughafen (1986– )
Family
Stars: Walter Plathe, Günter Naumann, Jürgen Zartmann, Günter Schubert
Votes: 39
33. Shady Lady (2012)
90 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The epic story of a B-24 'Liberator' bomber aircraft, 'Shady Lady', that took off from Darwin, Australia, on Friday 13th August 1943, on what was at that time, the world's longest ever attempted bombing mission.
Director: Tristan Loraine | Stars: Michael Dorn, Ross Neuenfeldt, Andrew Harwood Mills, Gregory Kanter
Votes: 89
34. Flug in Gefahr (1964 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama, Thriller
The fate of everyone onboard a stricken airplane depends on not only finding someone who can fly the plane, but also someone who DIDN'T have fish for dinner.
Director: Theo Mezger | Stars: Hanns Lothar, Benno Sterzenbach, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Günther Neutze
Votes: 179
35. Besatzung Dora (1943)
91 min | Drama, History, War
Luftwaffe pilots Joachim and Franz both love Marianne - their jealousy threatens to compromise the vital teamwork aboard their recon plane. Sergeant Otto, a farm boy, loses his love Mathilde when she discovers she hates agricultural work.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Hannes Stelzer, Hubert Kiurina, Josef Dahmen, Georg Thomalla
Votes: 61
36. B-52 (2001)
122 min | Documentary
A parable about present American culture explain The bomb airplane B-52 that symbolizes the dominance of the United States about the world.
Director: Hartmut Bitomsky | Stars: Hartmut Bitomsky, Maureen Selwood, Jon Wagner
Votes: 65
37. Ocean Emergency: Currents of Hope (2022 TV Special)
Documentary
The hosts go around the globe to share a look at the state of emergency of our oceans and provide tips on how viewers can help mitigate this worldwide issue.
Stars: Dean Cain, Laura McKenzie, Elizabeth Stanton, Montel Williams
Votes: 28
38. Land and Live in the Jungle (1944)
60 min | War
In this World War II military training film, a B-25 crew bails out over the jungle, and the pilot is separated from the rest of of his crew. The two groups of soldiers must survive until ... See full summary »
Stars: Mel Ford, Van Heflin, Patrick McVey, Charles Tannen
Votes: 24
39. Power of Decision (1958)
55 min | Documentary
This documentary shows the early ideas about how nuclear war between the USA and the USSR could look like. It is made purely from the US side and takes place mostly in the US military ... See full summary »
Votes: 13
40. On the Brink: Doomsday (1997 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, War
The A-Bomb, the H-Bomb, Cold War, Kennedy, Khrushchev, Yeltsin, Reagan...Who said that the world was a safe place?
Director: Gary Parker | Stars: Ed Green, Peter Roman, R. Cargill Hall, Vassily Reshetnikov
Votes: 23
41. Razmakh krylyev (1986)
94 min | Action, Drama
A passenger plane heading to Sverdlovsk suddenly caught fire two engines. Having requested a landing at the nearest airports, the pilot-in-command is refused due to bad weather conditions. ... See full summary »
Director: Gennadi Glagolev | Stars: Gennadi Glagolev, Evgeniy Karelskikh, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Sergey Sazontev
Votes: 62
43. The Fight for the Sky (1945)
20 min | Documentary, Short, War
Documentary detailing the activities of American fighter escort pilots during bombing raids over Germany.
Stars: Jimmy Dolittle, Francis H. Griswold, Reed Hadley
Votes: 50
44. How to Fly the B-24D Airplane (1942)
58 min | Documentary
Detailed training film describing preflight and airborne operations of Consolidated B-24D heavy bomber.
Votes: 12
45. Flight Plan for Freedom (1951)
Approved | 19 min | Documentary, Short, News
A report on the Strategic Air Command of the U. S. Air Force aboard a giant B-36 on a simulated intercontinental bombing mission. After glimpses of air bases in Nebraska,Texas and England, ... See full summary »
Director: James L. Shute | Star: Westbrook Van Voorhis
46. The Blitz on the Midlands (2001 Video)
56 min | Documentary, History, War
This is a powerful account of the German bombing raids on the central towns and airfields of England, including the terrible blitz on Coventry and the smaller raids on the airfields of Lincolnshire and East Anglia.
Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Don Burbridge, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler, King George VI
Votes: 6
47. Blitz on Cologne (2014 Video)
54 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary which chronicles the destruction of the German city of Cologne during World War Two.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Gertrud Türk, Günter Kassman, Wolfgram Hagspiel, Joseph Goebbels
48.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 11
49.
PilotsEYE.tv (1988– )
Episode:
Los Angeles
(2010)
110 min
For the first time, PilotsEYE.tv is a guest in the cockpit of a Boeing 747-400 and accompanies the commander over 710 aircraft and 1700 pilots into aeronautical retirement. PilotsEYE shows ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Aigner | Stars: Matthias Baur, Rainer Lange, Norbert Woelfle
Votes: 14
50.
The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode:
The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942-)
(2022)
TV-14 | 131 min | Documentary, History
A group of government officials supports and finances rescue operations. Allied soldiers begin to liberate concentration camps and find mass graves. The public sees the sheer scale of the Holocaust.
Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Deborah Lipstadt, Eva Geiringer
Votes: 146