Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "low-flying"

1. The Thing (1982)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Votes: 468,224 | Gross: $13.78M

2. Dunkirk (2017)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, History

Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy

Votes: 742,326 | Gross: $188.37M

3. Commando (1985)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A retired Special Forces colonel tries to save his daughter, who was abducted by his former subordinate.

Director: Mark L. Lester | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells

Votes: 175,332 | Gross: $35.10M

4. 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: 11,400

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: 6,475

6. Iron Eagle II (1988)

PG | 105 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A joint U.S.- Soviet strike force is assembled to wipe out a nuclear base in an outlaw nation that plans to take the world hostage.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Alan Scarfe

Votes: 5,466 | Gross: $10.50M

7. 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: 2,130

8. Mosquito Squadron (1969)

G | 90 min | Drama, War

In World War II, an RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret German V-2 rocket testing facility in France.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray, David Buck

Votes: 1,693

9. Shock Treatment (1973)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A French businesswoman goes to a remote and popular rejuvenation clinic after a breakup, and begins to suspect the treatment methods used by the head doctor, and slowly uncovers the horrible secret behind the clinic's success.

Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy

Votes: 1,781

10. 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: 408

11. Ejection decision - A second too late! (1981)

21 min | Short

Reasons that lead to the deterioration of the survival rate of USAF crew members in out-of-control aircraft are discussed. Pilots who used the ejection seat share their experiences.

Stars: Rudy Delgado, Leland K. Lukens, Grant McNaughton

12. TAC on target (1962)

14 min | Documentary, Short

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13. The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991)
Episode: Janine's Genie (1986)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

Janine wants to go on a job with the guys and helps them catch a ghost. As payment, she takes a lamp that has a sinister genie in it that grants her the wishes of making her the boss over the Ghostbusters, and Egon fall in love with her.

Director: Richard Raynis | Stars: Arsenio Hall, Maurice LaMarche, Lorenzo Music, Laura Summer

Votes: 143

14. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Bombing Nazi Dams (2003)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War

While working to aid Britain's military efforts Wallis toyed with a problem the British military had largely considered unsolvable -- how to destroy the Nazis' most important hydroelectric dams.

Director: Ian Duncan | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Barnes Wallis, Sidney Alford, Norman Boorer

Votes: 22

15. The Dambusters (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2020)

Documentary, History

Aircrew have eight weeks to train for a top secret mission.

Director: Jamie Simpson | Stars: Gary Bainbridge, Hilary Costello, Graham Duff, Guy Gibson

16. The Dambusters (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2020)

Documentary, History

Barnes Wallis has to create an entirely new aiming device.

Director: Jamie Simpson | Stars: Gary Bainbridge, Graham Duff, Guy Gibson, Arthur Harris

17. The Dambusters (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2020)

Documentary, History

The raid on Germany's dams gets off to a rocky start.

Director: Jamie Simpson | Stars: Gary Bainbridge, Guy Gibson, Max Hastings, David Lawrence

18. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Burgled Bullwinkle or The Moose Nappers/A Crown for Bullwinkle or Monarch Moose (1960)

TV-G | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle "Greenpernt Oogle" Part 3, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Enchanted Frog", Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties "Lure of the Footlights", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Greenpernt Oogle" Part 4.

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 28