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1. 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: 261,311 | Gross: $83.40M
2. Air Crash Investigation (2003– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Dramatized reconstruction of real-life air disasters, along with interviews with aviation experts and eyewitnesses.
Stars: Jonathan Aris, Stephen Bogaert, John Cox, John Nance
Votes: 5,914
3. 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: 11,374
4. 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: 24,418
5. 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: 6,462
6. By Dawn's Early Light (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau
Votes: 4,099
7. Dive Bomber (1941)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
A military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith
Votes: 2,061
8. 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
9. Raiders in the Sky (1953)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
War drama about the dangerous and stressful work of Lancaster bomber British crews during World War II.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bryan Forbes
Votes: 821
10. 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: 1,646
11. 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: 6,004
12. The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Not Rated | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Stanley Wray, Robert Morgan, James A. Verinis, Robert J. Hanson
Votes: 1,849
13. Terror in the Sky (1971 TV Movie)
74 min | Drama, Thriller
On a transcontinental flight, the flight crew suffer from food poisioning and become incapacitated. To save the aircraft, the cabin crew locate a passenger with flying experience. He is coached by an experienced pilot on the ground.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Leif Erickson, Doug McClure, Roddy McDowall, Lois Nettleton
Votes: 212
14. Ballada o bombere (2011 Video)
181 min | Action, Drama, War
The Bomber (2011) / (Russian language title: Ballada o Bombere) Storyline During World War II, a soviet aircraft crashes on Nazi-occupied territory. But the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved ... See full summary »
Director: Vitaliy Vorobyov | Stars: Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina Astakhova, Aleksandr Davydov, Vladislav Abashin
Votes: 615
15. The Doomsday Flight (1966 TV Movie)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Thriller
A bomb on board an airliner has an altitude-sensitive trigger. Unless a ransom is paid, it will explode when the plane descends to land.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Jack Lord, Edmond O'Brien, Katherine Crawford, John Saxon
Votes: 397
16. 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
17. 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: 263
18. 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
19. 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
20. Charlie Victor Romeo (2013)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Drama, History
A documentary derived entirely from 'Black Box' transcripts of six real-life major airline emergencies.
Directors: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Karlyn Michelson | Stars: Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, Noel Dinneen, Irving Gregory
Votes: 340
21. 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: 2,158
22. Torpedo Alley (1952)
84 min | Drama
Carrier pilot Lieutenant Bob Bingham (Mark Stevens) is rescued at sea by a submarine after he freezes at the controls and crashes, killing his two crewmen. He returns to civilian life but ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone, Charles Winninger, Bill Williams
Votes: 185
23. Stukas (1941)
101 min | Drama, War
This German propaganda film details the exploits of a group of Luftwaffe pilots flying Junkers Ju 87 "Stukas"--dive bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
Director: Karl Ritter | Stars: Carl Raddatz, Hannes Stelzer, Ernst von Klipstein, Albert Hehn
Votes: 188
24. 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
25. Gail S Halvorsen: The Berlin Candy Bomber (2009 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
During the early days of the Cold War a courageous young pilot Gail S. Halvorsen volunteered to fly food into the blocked city of Berlin. Upon meeting some of the children of the ... See full summary »
Director: Rob Sibley | Star: Gail Halvorsen
Votes: 15
26. Kampfgeschwader Lützow (1941)
97 min | War
German propaganda film, telling a story of a bomber crew, taking part in invasion on Poland and attacks on the British shipping.
Director: Hans Bertram | Stars: Christian Kayßler, Hermann Braun, Heinz Welzel, Hannes Keppler
Votes: 39
27. 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
28. Land and Live in the Desert (1945)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, War
Documentary short film depicting the correct methods of surviving the crash landing of a military aircraft in the desert. Methods of conserving water, providing shelter, and signaling for help are depicted.
Stars: John Beal, Wally Cassell, Robert Foulk, Van Heflin
Votes: 36
29. Sky Commando (1953)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, two junior officers discuss their colonel's dour reputation dating back to his WW2 service in the bomber and reconnaissance command.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Dan Duryea, Frances Gifford, Mike Connors, Michael Fox
Votes: 81
30. B-17: The Flying Fortress (1987 Video)
30 min | Short
Stars: Edward Mulhare, Theodore S. Drew, Bud Kingsbury, Tom Landry
Votes: 5
31. How to Fly the B-26 Airplane (1944)
47 min | Documentary
Documentary feature film depicting the training of young Lieutenant Jim Anthony as a pilot of the B-26 Marauder bomber. Dick, the captain charged with pilot instruction, leads Jim through ... See full summary »
Stars: Don Porter, Craig Stevens, William Warren, Frank Wilcox
Votes: 11
32. 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
34. Vysshiy pilotazh (2009– )
47 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Boris Shcherbakov, Sergey Karyakin, Olga Lomonosova, Mariya Gorban
Votes: 23
35.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Radio Bikini
(1988)
Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary, Biography, History
It starts with a live radio broadcast from the Bikini Atoll a few days before it is annihilated by a nuclear test. Shows great footage from these times and tells the story of the US Navy ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stone | Stars: Kilon Bauno, John Smitherman, Warren Austin, Bernard Baruch
Votes: 674
36.
The Valour and the Horror (1992)
Episode:
Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command
(1992)
Documentary, History, War
About the Canadian pilots in the British Royal Air Force Bomber Squadrons during World War II.
Director: Brian McKenna | Stars: Terence McKenna, Graeme Campbell, Gilbert Turp, Nicholas Shields
Votes: 39
37.
Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971)
Episode:
Standing Room Only
(1970)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, War
Hogan has to save Klink when his account books at Stalag 13 aren't quite correct.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary
Votes: 166