Best "aviation" Movies of All Time

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Emergency Declaration(2022)

2h 27min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 116 votes)

While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.

Directed by Han Jae-rim - With Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Nam-gil, Yim Si-wan, Kim So-jin, ...

Sully(2016)

PG-13

| 1h 36min | Drama, History

3.6/5 (with 3,294 votes)

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, Anna Gunn, Aaron Eckhart, Sam Huntington, Shane P. Allen, ...

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The Aviator(2004)

PG-13

| 2h 50min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 2,412 votes)

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, ...

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I.T.(2016)

| 1h 36min | Thriller

2.7/5 (with 276 votes)

Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.

Directed by John Moore - With Pierce Brosnan, Jason Barry, Stefanie Scott, Anna Friel, Michael Nyqvist, Clare-Hope Ashitey, ...

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Fly Away Home(1996)

| 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 197 votes)

Amy is only 13-years-old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest is torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South….

Directed by Carroll Ballard - With Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Jeremy Ratchford, Holter Graham, ...

Airport 1975(1974)

| 1h 47min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 104 votes)

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

Directed by Jack Smight - With Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Gloria Swanson, ...

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Downfall: The Case Against Boeing(2022)

1h 29min | Documentary

3.6/5 (with 61 votes)

Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.

Directed by Rory Kennedy - With Andy Pasztor

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Flight of the Intruder(1991)

PG-13

| 1h 55min | Action, War

2.8/5 (with 45 votes)

U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.

Directed by John Milius - With Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames, ...

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes(1965)

| 2h 18min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 68 votes)

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Directed by Ken Annakin - With Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, Terry-Thomas, Robert Morley, James Fox, Alberto Sordi, ...

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The Tuskegee Airmen(1995)

PG-13

| 1h 46min | War, History, Drama, TV Movie

3.5/5 (with 53 votes)

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.

Directed by Robert Markowitz - With Laurence Fishburne, Allen Payne, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Courtney B. Vance, Andre Braugher, Christopher McDonald, ...

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Gold(1974)

2h | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners can make a killing in the international gold market.

Directed by Peter R. Hunt - With Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, Bradford Dillman, John Gielgud, Marc Smith, ...

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Amelia(2009)

| 1h 51min | Adventure, Drama

2.8/5 (with 98 votes)

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

Directed by Mira Nair - With Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Joe Anderson, Cherry Jones, ...

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The Spirit of St. Louis(1957)

| 2h 15min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History

3.4/5 (with 55 votes)

Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With James Stewart, Marc Connelly, Creighton Hale, Aaron Spelling, Murray Hamilton, Carleton Young, ...

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Dark Blue World(2001)

| 1h 52min | Action, Drama, War

3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.

Directed by Jan Svěrák - With Tara Fitzgerald, Charles Dance, Ondřej Vetchý, Oldřich Kaiser, Kryštof Hádek, Linda Rybová, ...

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Blue Thermal(2022)

1h 43min | Animation, Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Arriving from Nagasaki with her wishful mantra is Tamaki Tsuru, who in high school could think only about volleyball. Things don’t begin well, however, when she looks for an extracurricular club to join and proceeds to immediately ding a glider at aviation club tryouts ending up having to work it off. She is initially disillusioned with campus life. Then Kuramochi, the club leader and glider pilot, takes Tamaki under his wing, and from the moment he takes her up for a flight in a glider, Tamaki becomes a captive of the vast beauty of the skies.

Directed by Masaki Tachibana

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark(1980)

| 1h 37min | Adventure, Kids & Family

2.8/5 (with 23 votes)

The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.

Directed by Charles Jarrott - With Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Ricky Schroder, Vincent Gardenia, Dana Elcar, Arthur Adams, ...

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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle(1973)

| 1h 32min | War, Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.

Directed by Leonid Bykov - With Leonid Bykov, Volodymyr Talashko, Aleksei Smirnov

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Q Planes(1939)

| 1h 22min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

Directed by Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods - With Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Pat Aherne, George Merritt, ...

The Flight That Disappeared(1961)

1h 12min | Science Fiction, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.

Directed by Reginald Le Borg - With Craig Hill, Paula Raymond, Harvey Stephens, Addison Richards, Harold Miller, Roy Engel, ...

Air Panic(2002)

1h 31min | Action, Drama, Thriller

2.1/5 (with 8 votes)

FAA system analyzer named Neil McCabe is the only person who seems to have this different hunch towards a group of international terrorists after a horrific plane incident occured. He thinks that an evil genius computer hacker sets out and manipulate the computer electronical system which linked to several airplanes to cause destruction and tragedy. In order to prevent the mishap, McCabe and his teammate, Rudy, finds out about the machine used by the criminals which leads them to a psychotic thrilling fight between the terrorist.

Directed by Bob Misiorowski - With Rodney Rowland, Kristanna Loken, Barbara Carrera, Ted Shackelford, Gulshan Grover, Boti Bliss, ...

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Fate Is the Hunter(1964)

1h 46min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.

Directed by Ralph Nelson - With Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Russell, Nehemiah Persoff, ...

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing(1942)

| 1h 42min | War, Drama

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death, destruction and derring-do. This is the story of one such bomber crew who were shot down and the brave Dutch patriots who helped them home.

Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger - With Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Emrys Jones, ...

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The Eagle and the Hawk(1933)

| 1h 13min | War, Drama, Action

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.

Directed by Stuart Walker - With Fredric March, Cary Grant, Jack Oakie, Carole Lombard, Adrienne D'Ambricourt, Douglas Scott, ...

The Big Lift(1950)

| 2h | War, Action, Adventure, Drama

3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

The Berlin Air Lift from the point of view of two NCOs.

Directed by George Seaton - With Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, O. E. Hasse, Bruni Löbel

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The White Diamond(2004)

1h 30min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Werner Herzog

The Battle of the Eagles(1979)

2h 10min | Drama, History, War

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Directed by Hajrudin Krvavac - With Bekim Fehmiu, Velimir Bata Živojinović, Ljubiša Samardžić, Radoš Bajić, Branko Pleša, Faruk Begolli, ...

The First of the Few(1942)

| 1h 58min | War

3.4/5 (with 16 votes)

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.

Directed by Leslie Howard - With Leslie Howard, David Niven, Roland Culver, Gordon McLeod, Filippo Del Giudice, Derrick De Marney, ...

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Wing and a Prayer(1944)

| 1h 37min | War, Action, Drama

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

An aircraft carrier is sent on a decoy mission around the Pacific, with orders to avoid combat, thus lulling Japanese alertness before the battle of Midway.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Don Ameche, Dana Andrews, William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Cedric Hardwicke, Kevin O'Shea, ...

The Doomsday Flight(1966)

1h 40min | TV Movie, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

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.

Directed by William A. Graham - With Jack Lord, Edmond O'Brien, Van Johnson, John Saxon, Richard Carlson, Ed Asner, ...

Wings(1966)

1h 25min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 15 votes)

The war ended a long time ago, but for the heroine of the film, the former pilot, only those years were filled with genuine meaning. She deeply feels discord with reality, lack of contact with her daughter. She doesn't manage to adapt to this peaceful, everyday life, she doesn't lose her piercing desire to fly...

Directed by Larisa Shepitko - With Maya Bulgakova, Zhanna Bolotova

Movies: Best "aviation" Movies

Emergency Declaration(2022)

Sully(2016)

The Aviator(2004)

I.T.(2016)

Fly Away Home(1996)

Airport 1975(1974)

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing(2022)

Flight of the Intruder(1991)

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes(1965)

The Tuskegee Airmen(1995)

Gold(1974)

Amelia(2009)

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The Spirit of St. Louis(1957)

Dark Blue World(2001)

Blue Thermal(2022)

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark(1980)

Only Old Men Are Going to Battle(1973)

Q Planes(1939)

The Flight That Disappeared(1961)

Air Panic(2002)

Fate Is the Hunter(1964)

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing(1942)

The Eagle and the Hawk(1933)

The Big Lift(1950)

The White Diamond(2004)

The Battle of the Eagles(1979)

The First of the Few(1942)

Wing and a Prayer(1944)

The Doomsday Flight(1966)

Wings(1966)

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