Aviation Movies

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane.

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

The true story of Jean Batten is of a daughter determined to live up to a powerful mother, desperate to leave a mark on the world – and...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary...

A young boy, who dreams of meeting the grandfather he never knew gets his chance, when an inventor friend constructs a time machine. After arriving...

Bored socialite Florence Pancho Barnes decides to learn to fly.

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from...

An American woman is stranded in a German airport when she witnesses someone sabotaging a plane.

In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.

The story of U.S. fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam who became POWs for up to 8 and a half years.

Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can...

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the boarder. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold...

Director William A. Wellman adds another to his long line of salutes-to-aviation films in this bio of an aviation pioneer, John Montgomery (Glenn...

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

An odyssey of a biplane once owned by John Denver.

This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the study of the stars since the 1860s....

A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.

For early aviators, conquering the forces of gravity was a daunting challenge. But black aviators had an additional challenge - conquering the forces...