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1) Top gun
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground. Bonus features include commentary, featurette, music videos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
4) Plane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a war-torn island only to find that surviving the landing was just the beginning. When most of the passengers are taken hostage by dangerous rebels, the only person Torrance can count on for help is Louis Gaspare, an accused murderer who was being transported by the FBI. To rescue the passengers, Torrance will need Gaspare's help and will learn there's...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.
8) Airplane!
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Aviators like Lt. Amanda Chasteen and Maj. Maria Marion see themselves not as women pilots, but just pilots, and, as their male colleagues admit, it's what happens in the air that matters, not the gender of the person in the cockpit.
10) The blue max
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A low-born infantryman becomes a pilot during World War I, almost deliberately stepping on the sensibilities of his aristocratic comrades in the process. A national hero, he wins the Blue Max, the highest award that can be bestowed upon an aviator. His fame is exploited by a general, who tolerates the affair between the pilot and the general's wife. The canny general knows that, eventually, the pilot will become expendable, and a "heroic" death can...
Series
Publisher
Alpha Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Based on Milton Caniff's popular comic strip, Terry and the pirates was originally broadcast in 1952 and chronicled the high flying adventures of USAF Colonel Terry Lee who heads to the Far East to locate a gold mine he inherited from his grandfather. Once there, he becomes a pilot with Air Cathay, a no-questions-asked cargo/passenger airline.
Publisher
Make Believe TV
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"From Kitty Hawk to Cape Canaveral, a few women have found "Wings of their own". From record-breaking altitude testing, air races, package delivery services and aerobatics to sightseeing tours, commercial shifts, leisure flights, military service, helicopter support runs, and ventures into space, women have piloted all kinds of aircraft. Wings of their own looks at women pilots over the 20th century through the voices of the women themselves and features...
13) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mothers worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berline to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
15) Air America
Language
English
Description
Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of Air America, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnamese countryside.
16) American made
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s.
17) The golden years
Series
Publisher
CustomFlix [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1985?]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Bendix Trophy Race (1931-1962) during the height of aerobatic racing, made for viewing at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, featuring the stories of trophy winners, Jimmy Doolittle and Jackie Cochran.
Publisher
Intelligent Television and Video
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Captain Alan Dix, with SAS Flight Academy, takes you through pilot training maneuvers. Topics include: a refresher course on the A320 layout, tour of computer room, look at simulator hydraulics, rejected take off, engine failure, barrel roll, and autoland.
19) Flight
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
20) Beast of burden
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After a drug mule turns into an informant, he learns that his wife had been kidnapped by a cartel and must find a way to save her from the cockpit of his plane.