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1. The Bloody Hundredth (2024)

TV-14 | 62 min | Documentary

It honors the heroes of the 100th Bomb Group.

Directors: Laurent Bouzereau, Mark Herzog | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robert Rosenthal, Steven Spielberg, James Stewart

Votes: 1,271

2. Welcome to Marwen (2018)

PG-13 | 116 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Steve Carell, Falk Hentschel, Matt O'Leary, Nikolai Witschl

Votes: 26,008 | Gross: $10.76M

3. Catch-22 (2019)

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Limited series adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller novel. Follows Captain John Yossarian and airmen in World War II.

Stars: Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Daniel David Stewart, Rafi Gavron

Votes: 20,438

4. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

PG-13 | 126 min | Drama

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh

Votes: 3,490 | Gross: $7.70M

5. A Guy Named Joe (1943)

Passed | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond

Votes: 2,917

6. Keep 'Em Flying (1941)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy

When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.

Directors: Arthur Lubin, Ralph Ceder | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce

Votes: 1,751

7. 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

8. Mission Over Korea (1953)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, War

In the early days of the Korean War, a commanding officer tries to rein in a headstrong rookie pilot determined to avenge his brother's death.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: John Hodiak, John Derek, Audrey Totter, Maureen O'Sullivan

Votes: 136

9. Intrigue (1947)

Approved | 90 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Dishonorably discharged from the Army Air Corps, Brad Dunham disconsolately decides to try his luck with Shanghai's postwar black market.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, June Havoc, Helena Carter, Tom Tully

Votes: 226

10. Swing Shift Maisie (1943)

Approved | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers, Connie Gilchrist

Votes: 431

11. Flight Command (1940)

Passed | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane... See full summary »

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly

Votes: 865

12. Captain Midnight (1942)

Passed | 270 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Secret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator ... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, James Craven, Sam Edwards

Votes: 152

13. Jungle Patrol (1948)

Approved | 71 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A visit from a USO entertainer lifts the spirits of the pilots stationed in New Guinea, who are beginning to worry that their luck will soon run short.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: Kristine Miller, Arthur Franz, Ross Ford, Tommy Noonan

Votes: 98

14. 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

15. Power Dive (1941)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Drama

Bradley Farrell, an ace test pilot for McMasters Aviation Corp., breaks his leg when a new airplane crashes because it is too heavy to get off the ground. When Brad's younger brother ... See full synopsis »

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Helen Mack, Roger Pryor

Votes: 84

16. Coming Out Under Fire (1994)

72 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A historical account of military policy regarding homosexuals during World War II. The documentary includes interviews with several gay WWII veterans.

Director: Arthur Dong | Stars: Salome Jens, Phillis Abry, David Barrett, Sarah Davis

Votes: 183

17. Men of the Sky (1942)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Drama, War

A propaganda film, made in the early months of World War II, dramatizing a new group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots receiving their wings from Lt. General H.H. Arnold: on off-screen narrator... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Tod Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Don DeFore, Ray Montgomery

Votes: 143

18. High Barbaree (1947)

Approved | 91 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Van Johnson is a Navy pilot in WWII who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors and are lost at sea. As they await rescue, ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Van Johnson, June Allyson, Thomas Mitchell, Marilyn Maxwell

Votes: 489

19. The Bamboo Blonde (1946)

Passed | 67 min | Music, Romance, War

A beautiful blonde singer who has a one-time fling with an engaged pilot, is confused by his B-29 bomber crew to be his real fiancée, and her image ends up being painted on the nose of their aircraft, for good luck, as the "Bamboo Blonde".

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian

Votes: 447

20. Little Mister Jim (1946)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A boy learns to deal with the loss of his mother and the subsequent mourning of his father through the wisdom of the family's Chinese cook.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, James Craig, Frances Gifford, Luana Patten

Votes: 120

21. In Old Monterey (1939)

Passed | 72 min | Drama, Western

Gene runs into opposition from a bunch of ranchers when the U.S. army send him to buy up land for bombing maneuvers.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 144

22. Atlantic Convoy (1942)

Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

German agents infiltrate an Iceland port used by the US Navy for anti-sub patrols protecting convoys. Their goal is to block the harbor and trap the patrols. The officers in charge must stop the plot before the subs are left unchecked.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Virginia Field, John Beal, Clifford Severn

Votes: 113

23. Flight to Fame (1938)

Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.

Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Charles Farrell, Julie Bishop, Hugh Sothern, Alexander D'Arcy

Votes: 25

24. Hi, Buddy (1943)

Approved | 66 min | Music, Romance, War

A military-flavored, World War Two, song-and-dance B-feature in which a fund-raising effort save a boys club from being closed.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Dick Foran, Harriet Nelson, Robert Paige, Marjorie Lord

Votes: 21

25. Devil's Squadron (1936)

Passed | 80 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Martha Dawson (Karen Morley), the daughter of an aircraft manufacturer building airplanes for the U.S. Army Air Corps, takes over the running of the plant when her father dies. She has ... See full summary »

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Richard Dix, Karen Morley, Lloyd Nolan, Shirley Ross

Votes: 48

26. Sky Patrol (1939)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 113

27. Johnny Comes Flying Home (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Following World War II, three discharged U. S. Air Corps fighter pilots decide to stay together and go into business for themselves. They form a company to operate a one-airplane freight ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Richard Crane, Faye Marlowe, Martha Stewart, Charles Russell

Votes: 17

28. Lost in the Stratosphere (1934)

Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries.

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, June Collyer, Edmund Breese

Votes: 137

29. Clipped Wings (1937)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Ever since he was a boy, Mickey wanted to fly planes like his big brother, Jerry, who was shot down during a mission in World War I. Unfortunately, Mickey is booted from flight school.

Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Rosalind Keith, William Janney, George Regas

Votes: 99

30. 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

31. Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform (1943)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

Several prominent actors are seen in their new roles as WWII military officers and enlisted men. Highlights include Robert Stack (a former amateur skeet shooting champion) displaying his ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Eddie Albert, Desi Arnaz, Gene Autry, Art Baker

Votes: 51

32. Ditch and Live (1944)

42 min | Short

Lt. Scott Reynolds is co-pilot on a B-17 bomber. When his ship is forced to ditch at sea, only Reynolds survives. The nine other crew members died as a result of insufficient training in ... See full summary »

Stars: Philip Bourneuf, Rand Brooks, Don Castle, Donald Curtis

Votes: 10

33. Aeronautical Oddities (1939)

16 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

Newsreel footage of some of the most outrageous early flying contraptions--some of which even succeeded in lifting off the ground.

Votes: 7

34. Richard Hank Sciaroni (2015)

11 min | Documentary, Short

Hank Sciaroni kept his experience as a Flight Navigator during WWII close to his chest, not revealing details even to his wife until decades later. Now revealing his memories, Hank ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Barbarino | Star: Richard Hank Sciaroni

35. Preflight Inspection of the B-17E (1941)

40 min | Documentary, Short

Military training film explaining the process of preflight inspection of the Boeing B-17E bomber aircraft.

36. Popular Science No. J-1-3 (1942)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, War

The issue if the series includes views of the 'skidoodler,', a ski-tow that climbs mountain slopes without effort; a frosted=food farm covering 25,000 acres in Brigeton, New Jersey; and a ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Carlisle | Star: Gayne Whitman

37. American History TV (2011– )
Episode: World War II Films of the First Motion Picture Unit (2017)

68 min | History

As part of the National Archives "Know Your Records" lecture series, film preservation specialists from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) discuss the work of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Andrea Bassing Matney, Audrey Amidon, Heidi Holmstrom

38. Catch-22 (2019)
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2019)

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Young American flyers arrive in war and discover that the bureaucracy is more deadly than the enemy.

Director: Grant Heslov | Stars: Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Daniel David Stewart, Rafi Gavron

Votes: 1,109