aviation movies...

[Ben Dover]

I recently joined Netflix and am looking for recommendations on aviation related movies. Movies about airmen, airlines, air battles would all quality. The more historically accurate the better.

Thanks in advance,
BD

 

[ground stop]

the high and the mighty, twelve o'clock high and island in the sky are good ones to start with.

 

[P-Dawg_QX]

Turbulence
Turbulence II: Fear of Flying

Enjoy!!

 

[Wesb737fo]

Some of my favorites, although not totally historically accurate are "Midway", "Tora Tora Tora" and "Memphis Belle".

I would give honorable mention to "The final countdown" (just because I liked the premise of the movie).

I kinda liked the original "Flight of the Phoenix" with Jimmy Stewart.

I totally hated "Pearl Harbour" (the one with B-Fleck..what a piece of garbage)

 

[Phaedrus]

Dr. Strangelove

 

[av8orboy]

Air America

 

[Phaedrus]

I know and flew with the guy who did a lot of the flying in that movie. Most of it was the C-123, but he's flown tons of aircraft. Good dude, fair to middlin' movie.

 

[jetpig32]

Dr. Strangelove

Thats a great one. Last time I saw it was my senior year of college. Took a class on "the history of the atomic bomb and atomic era". Got to watch all sorts of explostions. gotta love higher education.

 

[calfo]

I know and flew with the guy who did a lot of the flying in that movie. Most of it was the C-123, but he's flown tons of aircraft. Good dude, fair to middlin' movie.

Is that Dave K.? How do you know him? I flew with him at the customs service - he took a leave of abscence to go make the movie.

 

[fastbird]

Flying Leathernecks

 

[a319drvr]

Funny you should ask! I just bought "The High and the Mighty" tonight at Wal Mart and watched it for the first time......it was a classic!

 

[Jetlaag]

"Always"

Steven Spielberg's fire fighting movie. Awesome.

John Goodman, Richard Dryfus, and that hot Holly Hunter.

 

[Phaedrus]

calfo........yep, the one and only. State Dept Air Wing.

 

[248to2.8]

I recently joined Netflix and am looking for recommendations on aviation related movies. Movies about airmen, airlines, air battles would all quality. The more historically accurate the better.

Thanks in advance,
BD

The best historically accurate aviation movie out there has to be Airplane! I learned so much from that flick. Especially how to engage an auto pilot.

On the side Bridges at Toko Ri (sp?) was pretty good. I have Net Flix too. If you are a WWII buff they have a great series on the war. About 15 CD's if I remember right.

 

[248to2.8]

Edit for double click and double post. dang ritalin.

 

[screwed_again]

"Flight 69, Naughty Stews"

Great movie.

 

[Phaedrus]

Was that the one with Charleton Heston and Boy George?

 

[pylut]

Fandango.

 

[threegreen]

I'm sure you would reall like captain corelli's Mandolin.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238112/

 

[Rock]

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Castaway". And one of the best is "The Blue Max".

 

[Whataburger]

Topgun.

 

[Wesb737fo]

ooh...forgot about that one. Slider.....you stink!

 

[KingDriver]

What about: "Pushing Tin", "Airplane", or "The Great Waldo Pepper"?

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

Good first date flick!

"Always"

Steven Spielberg's fire fighting movie. Awesome.

John Goodman, Richard Dryfus, and that hot Holly Hunter.

Flying, romance, etc.

I like the way Holly Hunter goes "around the horn" and cranks up the B25 in a hurry!

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

The Blue Max rocks

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Castaway". And one of the best is "The Blue Max".

George P.

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

30 second over Tokyo

The Doolittle Raiders

 

[RightBettor]

"The Pilot" (c. 1979) with Cliff Robertson. Robertson is a rated pilot in real life, and heard a rumor that he got typed (or at least trained) on the DC-8 so that he would actually taxi, takeoff, fly, etc. during filming of the cockpit sequences. A good movie about an airline captain battling the demons of alcoholism. Some good flying scenes and good writing with CRM issues, a fuel emergency going into SFO, etc. Check it out.

 

[RightBettor]

Another good one is "The Aviator" (c. 1985) with Christopher Reeve (not the recent one with fancy boy DiCaprio). Anyway, Reeve plays an airmail pilot in the 1920s. The airmail service started toying with the idea of taking passengers along (and it all went downhill from there!!!) Rosanna Arquette plays a poor little rich girl who is the passenger... yada yada yada. There's a great scene where Reeve is having breakfast (a jelly doughnut reserved for him... you'll see) and coffee. Arquette, the annoying passenger, is asking him lots of questions while he is trying to have a quiet moment eating. Sound familiar? The dialouge is hilarious, and it will remind you of those moments when someone interrupts your meal at the airport or your sleep during a commute in order to aks stuff like, "So, what's your route?" or "I have friend who used to fly747s for Pan Am, maybe you know him?"

Again, The Aviator (1985). Good flick.

 

[Cardinal]

Another vote for The High and The Mighty, as well as Dr. Strangelove (Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

I'll have to find The Pilot

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

I remember that one...

"The Pilot" with Cliff Robertson. Robertson is a rated pilot in real life, and heard a rumor that he got typed (or at least trained) on the DC-8 so that he would actually taxi, takeoff, fly, etc. during filming of the cockpit sequences. A good movie about an airline captain battling the demons of alcoholism. Some good flying scenes and good writing with CRM issues, a fuel emergency going into SFO, etc. Check it out.

Doesn't it end with an evacutaion where he returns for the flask in his coat?

Then shows him crop dusting in the end?