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"Badly shot up over Italy by a Messerschmitt nightfighter, P-61 Black Widow pilot Jake Ellison leaves the death and destruction of WWII Europe to return home to Arizona, only to be faced with the brutal murder of his ex-fiancee's younger sister. While his legs and heart heal in the Sedona sun, Jake finds himself trying to solve the mystery of Lily's death, only to be drawn into a fanatical Nazi plot to bring the U.S. to its knees--a mission which...
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...
5) 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...
7) The wanderer
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English
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Nestled on the Oregon Coast is a small town of rocky beaches and rugged charm. Locals love the land's unspoiled beauty. Developers see it as a potential gold mine. When newcomer Hank Cooper learns he's been left an old friend's entire beachfront property, he finds himself with a community's destiny in his hands. Cooper has never been a man to settle in one place, and Thunder Point was supposed to be just another quick stop. But Cooper finds himself...
8) 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.
9) Sky King
Series
Publisher
Alpha Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Working from the Flying Crown Ranch in Arizona, "Sky" King and his niece Penny use their expert airborne skills and the latest technology, helping their friends and the sheriff whenever trouble arises.
Publisher
Studio Ghibli Productions
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Slouching towards middle age, Porco Rosso makes his living by flying about in his red bi-plane and fighting sky bandits who prey on cruise ships sailing the Adriatic. When he's not engaging in dog fights, this pilot lives on a deserted island retreat. Porco was once a strapping young man, but after his entire squardron was wiped out, he is mysteriously transformed into a pig. Then he is defeated in a dogfight against a dashing American rival, who...
11) Sully
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain, Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 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 his career.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Bright eyes: The darling of a group of aviators, Shirley splits her time between her pilot godfather Loop, and her long suffering mother, housemaid for a selfish, wealthy family.
Heidi: When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi is taken into the Swiss mountains to live with her gruff grandfather (Hersholt), a hermit who comes to adore her. But the aunt returns to steal Heidi away, selling her to a family whose invalid daughter (Jones)...
14) Flight
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Whip Whitaker, 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.
16) Bridge of spies
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
17) Great circle
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English
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"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
