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1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama
After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer
Votes: 697,415 | Gross: $718.73M
2. Top Gun (1986)
PG | 109 min | Action, Drama
As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
Votes: 502,792 | Gross: $179.80M
3. Battleship (2012)
PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna
Votes: 257,396 | Gross: $65.42M
4. Midway (2019)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans
Votes: 94,478 | Gross: $56.85M
5. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance
A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia
Votes: 62,624 | Gross: $129.80M
6. Hot Shots! (1991)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Comedy
A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.
Director: Jim Abrahams | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 116,660 | Gross: $69.47M
7. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 37,218 | Gross: $29.55M
8. Midway (1976)
PG | 132 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
Votes: 21,494
9. Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, History
The World War II story of the Royal Navy's effort to defeat Nazi Germany's most powerful warship.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith
Votes: 8,317 | Gross: $6.54M
10. American Warships (2012 Video)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a US plane is taken down over seas by an unknown assailant, the army is sure it was North Korea and a new war is about to break out. Even worse, the true attacker is an alien armed force and only one old battleship can stop them.
Director: Thunder Levin | Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Carl Weathers, Johanna Watts, Nikki McCauley
Votes: 2,738
11. The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Approved | 100 min | Biography, Drama, War
A dramatization of the American general and his court martial for publically complaining about High Command's dismissal and neglect of the aerial fighting forces.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger
Votes: 2,302
12. 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: 2,059
13. The Crowded Sky (1960)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., John Kerr
Votes: 964
14. Task Force (1949)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, War
As he is retiring, Jonathan L. Scott "Scotty" reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,188
15. Torpedo Bombers (1983)
96 min | Drama, War
In 1944,when British navy convoys try to supply the Soviets with war matériel under the lend-lease agreement,the Soviet naval aviation base in Murmansk is attacked by German bombers.
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Rodion Nakhapetov, Aleksey Zharkov, Andrei Boltnev, Stanislav Sadalskiy
Votes: 416
16. The Fighting Lady (1944)
Passed | 61 min | Documentary, History, War
An in-depth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during World War II. Real combat footage. Very strong and compelling.
Directors: Edward Steichen, William Wyler | Stars: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, Joseph J. Clark, Dixie Kiefer
Votes: 616
17. Flat Top (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, War
During the Korean War, aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, Navy Commander Dan Collier reminisces about his first assignment on the same aircraft carrier in the war against Japan.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield
Votes: 541
18. Drain the Bermuda Triangle (2014)
TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Short
What lies beneath the mythical triangle? With the aid of data from sophisticated sonar surveys, National Geographic explores what the ocean floor looks like below the Bermuda Triangle.
Director: Jobim Sampson | Stars: Craig Sechler, Russell Boulter, Philippe Rouja, Mandy Shailer
Votes: 315
19. Sailor (1976– )
300 min | Documentary
A major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976. About the life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. It followed the ship on a five and a half month... See full summary »
Stars: Twinkle Powell, Leslie Conway
Votes: 27
20. Ward Carroll (2020– )
Documentary
Ward Carroll's channel provides a deep look inside United States naval aviation. A Tomcat radar intercept officer for 20 years Ward shares his particular knowledge and interest in the F-14 ... See full summary »
Stars: Ward Carroll, Justin Bronk, David Axe, Tal Manvel
21. Battle of the Atlantic (2002– )
146 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of the World War II effort by Nazi Germany to disrupt Allied shipping with U-boat attacks and the Allied efforts to prevent it.
Stars: Chris Broyles, Bill Paterson
Votes: 138
22. Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, Comedy
A talented but brash stunt pilot enters the Marine Corps and becomes more disciplined.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, Frank McHugh
Votes: 407
23. Air Strike (1955)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, War
A Navy Commander tries to mold a jet-fighter attack squadron into an efficient fighting machine.
Director: Cy Roth | Stars: Richard Denning, Gloria Jean, Don Haggerty, William Hudson
Votes: 66
24. The Millionaires' Unit (2015)
120 min | Documentary, Action, History
Seven years in the making and filmed on three continents, The Millionaires' Unit documentary tells the dramatic story of a group of Yale students who were the first to fly for America in WW1, some of them making the ultimate sacrifice.
Directors: Darroch Greer, Ron King, Darroch Greer | Stars: Bruce Dern, Dan J. Evans, Steven Haworth, Gregory Hoyt
Votes: 44
25. Attack in the Pacific (1944)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
Crusade in the Pacific is a video series that documents the fighting between the United States and Imperial Japan during and immediately after World War II.
Stars: Henry H. Arnold, Alan Brooke, Kai-Shek Chiang, Winston Churchill
Votes: 86
26. Warship (2001– )
224 min | Documentary, History, War
The evolution of the modern naval warship, from the days of wooden vessels under sail to today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, submarines, and missile cruisers.
Stars: Stacy Keach, Tim L. Smith
Votes: 46
27. Eyes of the Navy (1940)
Approved | 20 min | Documentary, Short
Produced in cooperation with the United States Navy, the film follows naval aviators through their basic training in Pensacola, Florida and advanced training at San Diego, California.
Stars: James Conaty, Warren McCollum, Charles Middleton, Russell Wade
Votes: 223
28. Ready on Arrival (1966)
28 min | Documentary, Short
We are getting a look at U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers, their attack aircraft and the men who man them.
Director: William Joyce | Star: Alexander Scourby
29. Les Gars de La Une (1988 TV Special)
210 min | Music
Director: Christian Gomila | Stars: Jean Amadou, Julie Arnold, Jean-Louis Aubert, Marie-Laure Augry
30. Cold War. Battle Over the Ocean (2006 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary
The confrontation between American and Soviet aviation during the Cold War over the ocean. The recollections of direct participants and witnesses of these events.
Director: Aleksandr Slavin | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsko, Nikolai Bulganin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sergey Ivanov
31. The Challenge of Flight - Nowhere Else to Go (2020)
51 min | War
No job is more hazardous than Carrier Air operations. Witness amazing approaches and landings that seem impossible to make. You'll also see many of those that failed. Rare footage.
Director: L. Douglas Keeney
32. Okeanskiy Shchit Rodiny (1987 TV Movie)
25 min | Documentary
Director: S. Kheyfets | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Raisa Gorbacheva
33. Angels on the Wire (2009 Video)
9 min | Short
Director: Robert David Graham | Star: Robert David Graham
34. They Fly with the Fleet (1951)
Approved | 16 min | Documentary, Short, News
Filmed at the U.S. Naval Aviation Training Station at Pensacola, Florida, this entry in RKO's "This is America" series follows the transformation of an aviation cadet into a full-fledged airman as an Ensign in the U. S. Navy air arm.
Director: Larry O'Reilly | Stars: Dwight Weist, Peter Roberts
35. Top Gun (1987 Video Game)
Unrated | Action
The video game that trains you to be a Naval Aviator, just like in the movie! Top Gun is the Game that does just that!
Votes: 249
36.
Days That Shook the World (2003–2005)
Episode:
The Battle of Midway
(2005)
60 min | Documentary, History
Following the embarrassment caused by the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the Japanese devised a climactic battle over the island of Midway intended to finish U.S. naval power in the Pacific. On ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Terry Bowden, Noah Michael Levine, David Polinsky, Jun Suenaga
Votes: 15
37.
Sky King (1951–1962)
Episode:
Double Trouble
(1957)
TV-PG | 26 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
When a man who looks like Sky King steals the Songbird and attempts to blow up a Navy missile center, Sky borrows a jet to chase him.
Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Kirby Grant, Gloria Winters, Ewing Mitchell, Mauritz Hugo