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Top Gun: Maverick(2022)

K
| 2h 11min | Action, Drama
4.1/5 (with 3,883 votes)

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

Thunderball(1965)

3.3/5 (with 980 votes)

A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.

Born to Fly(2023)

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

A talented trainee pilot is given the opportunity to virtually test the latest fighter jet, which pushes him to his limits.

Behind Enemy Lines(2001)

1h 46min | Action, Drama, Thriller, War
3.1/5 (with 619 votes)

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.

Red Tails(2012)

3.2/5 (with 272 votes)

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Flyboys(2006)

3.3/5 (with 349 votes)

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

The Last Starfighter(1984)

PG
| 1h 41min | Adventure, Science Fiction, Action
3.3/5 (with 302 votes)

A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.

Fail Safe(1964)

1h 52min | Drama, Thriller, War
3.9/5 (with 156 votes)

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan(2009)

3.4/5 (with 172 votes)

When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.

R2B: Return to Base(2012)

3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

Tae-hun causes trouble for the his unit with his antics. He does not take much seriously until a dogfight leaves a pilot dead and another missing. Tae-hun and the other members of his unit launch a rescue mission to prevent a war from breaking out.

Directed by Kim Dong-won - With Rain

Macross Plus: The Movie(1995)

3.6/5 (with 25 votes)

Three decades after the great war between the humans and the Zentradi, the U.N. government is developing new technologies to use in their transforming fighter aircraft by running tests on the colony planet Eden. Military test pilots and former childhood friends, loose cannon Isamu Alva Dyson and the Zentradi mixed race Guld Goa Bowman, are selected to each pilot a new aircraft (Shinsei Industries' YF-19 & General Galaxy's YF-21) for Project Super Nova, to choose the newest successor to the VF-11 Thunderbolt variable fighter which is currently still in use by the U.N. Spacy military forces. Their own personal grudges end up disrupting the tests, and begin to wreak havoc on the program.

Captain Nova(2021)

3.0/5 (with 37 votes)

A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.

Directed by Maurice Trouwborst - With Anniek Pheifer, Marouane Meftah, Hannah van Lunteren, Sander van de Pavert, Bram Blankestijn, Dunya Khayame, ...
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The Blue Max(1966)

2h 36min | War, Action, Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

The Princess and the Pilot(2011)

4.0/5 (with 48 votes)

The war between the Levamme Empire and the Amatsukami Imperium has been raging for years. In the midst of this struggle, the prince of the Levamme Empire declares his love for Juana del Moral and vows to end the war in one year, as part of his marriage proposal. When the Amatsukami catch wind of this, they assault the del Moral residence, targeting Juana's life. As a last-ditch effort to bring the prince his bride, the San Maltilia Airforce employs a mercenary of mixed blood—a bestado—to fly Juana to the prince in secret.

Directed by Jun Shishido

The Tuskegee Airmen(1995)

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.

Hell's Angels(1930)

2h 11min | Drama, War, Action
3.3/5 (with 36 votes)

When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.

Warbirds(2008)

1h 25min | Horror
1.6/5 (with 11 votes)

In the midst of World War 2, a OSS officer leads a group of female pilots on a mission to deliver a secret weapon, only to crash land on an island in the Pacific after an encounter with a deadly storm. On the island, they must not only contend with a small band of Japanese soldiers but the native inhabitants of the island as well - vicious prehistoric Pterodons.

Flying Leathernecks(1951)

1h 42min | Action, Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.

First Light(2010)

1h 15min | Drama, History, War
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

In May 1940, feeling the RAF needs every man to fight to Luftwaffe, Geoffrey 'Geoff'/'Boy' Wellum joins at 18, becoming the youngest ever Spitfire pilot. After an intense training, he soon bonds with the flying men of his squadron. In the air, danger is great, but on the ground drinks, sports and girls, in Geoff's case Sarah, provide great comfort. However in time, the casualties exact a grueling psychological toll, until his tour of duty is ended after 18 months.

Directed by Matthew Whiteman - With Sam Heughan

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.

Fighter Squadron(1948)

1h 36min | Action, War
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney, Henry Hull, Rock Hudson, James Holden, ...

Final Mission(1994)

1h 28min | Action
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

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The Dawn Patrol(1930)

1h 48min | War, Drama, Action
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

World War I ace Dick Courtney derides the leadership of his superior officer, but he soon is promoted to squadron commander and learns harsh lessons about sending subordinates to their deaths.

Command Decision(1948)

1h 52min | War, Drama
3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.

Sky Commando(1953)

1h 9min | War, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Colonel Ed Wyatt is regarded by pilots under his command as being a ruthless disciplinarian. His co-pilot, Lt. Hobson Lee, and Jo McWethy, a war correspondent assigned to the squadron become more friendly than meets Wyatt's approval. When Wyatt's plane is forced down behind enemy lines, he orders his crew to proceed to the American lines with the vital film they have shot, while he remains behind to hold off the enemy.

Directed by Fred F. Sears - With Dan Duryea

God Is My Co-Pilot(1945)

1h 30min | Action, Adventure, War
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into China. In China, he persuades General Chennault to let him fly with the famed Flying Tigers, the heroic band of airmen who'd been fighting the Japanese long before Pearl Harbor. Scott gets his chance to fight, ultimately engaging in combat with the deadly Japanese pilot known as Tokyo Joe.

The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze(1968)

1h 50min | War, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.

The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya(1942)

1h 56min | Drama, History, War

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

Lafayette Escadrille(1958)

1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

A hotshot young flyer falls for a French sex worker during World War I.

Classmates(1967)

1h 47min | Drama, War
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

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