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The Best Aviation Movie Of All Time.
Okay it's time to settle this, what's the best aviation movies of all time and that includes Space too. Give me your input! I have started a list but will add to it as I get input. 3 categories overall:
1. over all: 2001 A Space Odyssey
2. Comedy: Always
3. runnerup: Behind Enemy Lines
(These are my choices by the way)
I felt 2001 was the most profound aviation movie of all time.
Always was hilarious because John Goodman got drenched with fire retardant and caught his cigar on fire.
Behind Enemy Lines was just an adrenaline pumper.
Anyway, all of these movies are great in there own way. Let us know.
Above and Beyond 1953 Melvin Frank
Above the Clouds 1934 Roy W. Neill
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies 1973
Ace of Aces 1933 J. Walter Ruben
Aces High 1976 Jack Gold
Aces: Iron Eagle III 1992 John Glen
Aerial Gunner 1943 William Pine
A Guy Named Joe 1943 Victor Fleming
Air America 1990 Roger Spottiswoode
Air Cadet 1951 Joseph Pevney
Air Devils 1938 John Rawlins
Air Force 1943 Howard Hawks
Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Peterson
Air Furies 1935
Air Hawks 1935 Albert S. Rogell
Air Hostess 1933 Albert S. Rogell
Airmail 1932 John Ford
Air Patrol, The 1962 Maury Dexter
Airplane II: The Sequel 1982
Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams & David Zucker
Airport 1970 George Seaton
Airport 1975 1974 Jack Smight
Airport '77 1977 Jerry Jameson
Airport '79, The (Concorde) 1979 David Lowell Rich
Air Police 1928
Always 1989 Steven Spielberg
Angels One Five 1952 George More O'Ferrall
Annapolis Story, An 1955 Don Siegel
Appointment in London 1953 Philip Leacock
Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Coppola
Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard
Arise My Love 1940
Aviator, The 1985 George Miller
- B -
Baa Baa Black Sheep 1976 Russ Mayberry
Bat 21 1988 Peter Markle
Battle Hymn 1957 Douglas Sirk
Battle of Britain, The 1969 Guy Hamilton
Behind Enemy Lines 2001 John Moore
Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
Big Lift, The 1950 George Seaton
Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott
Blaze of Noon 1947 John Farrow
Blue Max, The 1966 John Guillermin
Blue Thunder 1983 John Badham
Blue Yonder, The 1985 Mark Rosman
Bombardier 1943 Richard Wallace
Bombers B-52 1957 Gordon Douglas
Bomber's Moon 1943
Breaking the Sound Barrier 1952 David Lean
Bride Came C.O.D., The 1941 William Keighley
Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 Mark Robson
Bridge Too Far, A 1977 Richard Attenborough
Bush Pilot 1947 Sterling Campbell
By Dawn's Early Light 1990 Jack Sholder
- C -
Captain Eddie 1945 Lloyd Bacon
Captain Newman, MD 1963 David Miller
Captains of the Clouds 1942 Michael Curtiz
Carpetbaggers, The 1964 Edward Dmytryk
Catch 22 1970 Mike Nichols
Ceiling Zero 1935 Howard Hawks
Chain Lightning 1950 Stuart Heisler
China Clipper 1936 Ray Enright
China Doll 1958 Samuel Fuller
Cloud Dancer 1980 Barry Brown
Coast Guard 1939 Edward Ludwig
Cock of the Air 1932 Tom Buckingham
Command Decision 1948 Sam Wood
Con Air 1997 Simon West
Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, The 1955 Otto Preminger
Crowded Sky, The 1960 Joseph Pevney
- D -
Dam Busters, The 1954 Michael Anderson
Darling Lili 1970 Blake Edwards
Dark Blue World 2001 Jan Sverak
Dark Star 1973 John Carpenter
Dawn Patrol. The 1930 Howard Hawks
Dawn Patrol, The 1938 Edmund Goulding
Desperate Journey 1942 Raoul Walsh
Devil Dogs of the Air 1935 Lloyd Bacon
Dirigible 1931 Frank Capra
Dive Bomber 1941 Michael Curtiz
Dragonfly Squadron 1954 Lesley Selander
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick
- E -
Eagle and the Hawk, The 1933 Mitchell Leisen
Eagle Squadron 1942 Arthur Lubin
Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg
English Patient, The 1996 Anthony Minghella
Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, and the Atomic Bomb
Eternal Sea, The 1955 John H. Auer
- F -
Fail Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet
Fate is the Hunter 1964 Ralph Nelson
Fearless 1993 Peter Weir
Ferry Pilot 1941
Fighter Attack 1953 Lesley Selander
Fighter Squadron 1948 Raoul Walsh
Final Approach 1991 Eric Steven Stah
Final Countdown 1980 Don Taylor
Final Destination
Fire Birds 1990 David Green
FireFox 1982 Clint Eastwood
First of the Few, The 1942 Leslie Howard
Flaming Sky 1940
Flat Top 1952 Lesley Selander
Flight 1929 Frank Capra
Flight Command 1940 Frank Borzage
Flight for Freedom 1943 Lothar Mendes
Flight from Ashiya 1964 Michael Anderson
Flight from Glory 1937 Lew Landers
Flight into Danger 1960 Arthur Hailey
Flight Lieutenant 1942 Sidney Salkow
Flight of the Eagle, The 1982 Jan Troell
Flight of the Intruder 1991 John Milius
Flight of the Lost Balloon 1961 Nathan Juran
Flight of the Phoenix, The 1965 Robert Aldrich
Fly Away Home 1996 Carroll Ballard
Flying Irishma, The 1939 Leigh Jason
Flying Leathernecks 1951 Nicholas Ray
Flying Tigers 1942 David Miller
- G -
Gathering of Eagles
God is My Co-Pilot 1943 Robert Florey
Great Santini. The 1979 Lewis Carlino
Great Waldo Pepper, The 1975 George Roy Hill
Guy Named Joe, A 1943 Victor Fleming
Gypsy Moths, The 1969 John Frankenheimer
- H -
Hell Divers 1932 George Hill
Hell's Angels 1930 Howard R. Hughes
High and the Mighty, The 1954 William A. Wellman
Hindenburg, The 1975 Robert Wise
Hot Shots! 1991 Jim Abrahams
Hot Shots! Part Deux 1993 Jim Abrahams
- I -
Illegal Traffic
I'm From Missouri
International Spy
International Squadron 1941 Lothar Mendes
Iron Eagle 1986 Sidney J. Furie
I Wanted Wings 1941
- J -
Jet Pilot 1957 Josef von Sternberg
- K -
Keep 'Em Flying 1941 Arthur Lubin
- L -
Ladies Courageous 1944 John Rawlins
Lady Takes a Flyer, The 1957 Jack Arnold
Lafayette Escadrille 1958 William A. Wellman
Lion Has Wings, The 1939 Michael Powell
Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 Werner Herzog
- M -
McConnell Story, The 1955 Gordon Douglas
Memphis Belle 1944 William Wyler
Memphis Belle 1990 Michael Caton-Jones
Men With Wings 1938 William A. Wellman
Merrill's Marauders
Men of the Fighting Lady Andrew Marten
Midway 1976 Walter Mirisch
Mosquito Squadron 1970 Boris Segal
Murphy's War 1971 Peter Yates
- N -
Navy Born 1936
Night Flier, The 1997 Mark Pavia
Night Flight 1933 Clarence Brown
No Highway in the Sky 1951 Henry Koster
Non-stop Flight, The 1926
Now We're in the Air 1927 Frank R. Strayer
- O -
One Week of Love 1922
One of Our Aircraft is Missing 1942 Michael Power & Emeric Pressburger
Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hanks
Operation Crossbow Michael Anderson
Our Neighbors the Cartiers
Outlaws of the Orient 1937
Out of the Clouds 1955 Basil Dearden
- P -
Pancho Barnes 1988 Richard Heffron
Parachute Battalion 1941 Leslie Goodwins
Parachute Jumper 1933 Alfred E. Green
Pilot, The 1979 Cliff Robertson
Pilot #5 1943 George Sidney
Pushing Tin 1999 Mike Newell
- Q -
Q Planes 1939 Tim Whelan
- R -
Race to the Yankee Zephyr 1981 David Hemmings
Reach for the Sky 1956 Lewis Gilbert
Right Stuff, The 1983 Philip Kaufman
Rocketeer, The 1991 Joe Johnson
- S -
633 Squadron 1964 Walter Grauman
Sky Bandits 1986 Zoran
Sky Commando 1953 Fred F. Sears
Sky Devils 1932 A. Edward Sutherland
Sky Giant 1938 Lew Landers
Skyjacked (Sky Terror) 1972 John Guillermin
Sky's the Limit, The 1943 Edward H. Griffith
Sky Riders 1976 Douglas Hickox
Skyward 1980 Ron Howard
Spirit of St. Louis, The 1957 Billy Wilder
Spitfire 1942 Leslie Howard
Strategic Air Command 1955 Anthony Mann
Sundown 1941 Henry Hathaway
Suzy 1936 George Fitzmaurice
- T -
Tail Spin 1939 Roy Del Ruth
Tarnished Angels 1957 Douglas Sirk
Task Force 1949 Delmer Daves
Test Pilot 1938 Victor Fleming
They Flew Alone 1941 Herbert Wilcox
They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford
Things to Come 1936 William Menzies
Thirteen Days 2000 Roger Donaldson
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy
Those Fantastic Flying Fools 1967 Don Sharp
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines 1965 Ken Annakin
Thunder Birds 1942 William A. Wellman
Thunderbirds 1952 John Auer
Thundering Jets 1958 Helmut Dantine
Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Toshio Masuda & Richard Fleischer
Toward the Unknown 1956 Mervyn LeRoy
Turbulence 1997 Robert Butler
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying 1999 David Mackay
Tuskegee Airmen, The 1995 Robert Markowitz
Twelve O'clock High 1949 Henry King
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
- U -
- V -
View from the Top 2003 Bruno Barreto 87
Von Richthofen and Brown
(Battle of the Aces) 1971 Roger Corman
- W -
Wake Island 1942 John Farrow
War Lover, The 1962 Phillip Leacock
West Point of the Air 1935 Richard Rosson
Wild Blue Yonder 1951 Allan Dwan
Wing and a Prayer, A 1944 Henry Hathaway
Winged Victory 1944 George Cukor
Wings 1927 William A. Wellman
Wings Against the Wind 1999
Wings for the Eagle 1942 Lloyd Bacon
Wings in the Dark 1935 James Flood
Wings of Chance 1961 Edward Dew
Wings of Courage 1995 Jean-Jacques Annaud
Wings of Eagles, The 1957 John Ford
War - WWI MGM No
Wings of the Apache (Fire Birds) 1990 David Green
Wings of the Navy 1939 Lloyd Bacon
Wings Over Honolulu 1935 H. C. Potter
Woman I Love, The 1937 Anatole Litvak
Women in the Wind 1939 John Farrow
- X -
- Y -
Yank in the RAF, A 1941 Henry King
You Came Along 1945 John Farrow
You Gotta Stay Happy 1948 H. C. Potter
Young Eagles 1930
Young Whirlwind 1928
- Z -
Zeppelin 1971 Etienne Perier
Zero Hour 1957 Hall Bartlett
Okay it's time to settle this, what's the best aviation movies of all time and that includes Space too. Give me your input! I have started a list but will add to it as I get input. 3 categories overall:
1. over all: 2001 A Space Odyssey
2. Comedy: Always
3. runnerup: Behind Enemy Lines
(These are my choices by the way)
I felt 2001 was the most profound aviation movie of all time.
Always was hilarious because John Goodman got drenched with fire retardant and caught his cigar on fire.
Behind Enemy Lines was just an adrenaline pumper.
Anyway, all of these movies are great in there own way. Let us know.
Above and Beyond 1953 Melvin Frank
Above the Clouds 1934 Roy W. Neill
Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies 1973
Ace of Aces 1933 J. Walter Ruben
Aces High 1976 Jack Gold
Aces: Iron Eagle III 1992 John Glen
Aerial Gunner 1943 William Pine
A Guy Named Joe 1943 Victor Fleming
Air America 1990 Roger Spottiswoode
Air Cadet 1951 Joseph Pevney
Air Devils 1938 John Rawlins
Air Force 1943 Howard Hawks
Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Peterson
Air Furies 1935
Air Hawks 1935 Albert S. Rogell
Air Hostess 1933 Albert S. Rogell
Airmail 1932 John Ford
Air Patrol, The 1962 Maury Dexter
Airplane II: The Sequel 1982
Airplane! 1980 Jim Abrahams & David Zucker
Airport 1970 George Seaton
Airport 1975 1974 Jack Smight
Airport '77 1977 Jerry Jameson
Airport '79, The (Concorde) 1979 David Lowell Rich
Air Police 1928
Always 1989 Steven Spielberg
Angels One Five 1952 George More O'Ferrall
Annapolis Story, An 1955 Don Siegel
Appointment in London 1953 Philip Leacock
Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Coppola
Apollo 13 1995 Ron Howard
Arise My Love 1940
Aviator, The 1985 George Miller
- B -
Baa Baa Black Sheep 1976 Russ Mayberry
Bat 21 1988 Peter Markle
Battle Hymn 1957 Douglas Sirk
Battle of Britain, The 1969 Guy Hamilton
Behind Enemy Lines 2001 John Moore
Best Years of Our Lives 1946 William Wyler
Big Lift, The 1950 George Seaton
Black Hawk Down 2001 Ridley Scott
Blaze of Noon 1947 John Farrow
Blue Max, The 1966 John Guillermin
Blue Thunder 1983 John Badham
Blue Yonder, The 1985 Mark Rosman
Bombardier 1943 Richard Wallace
Bombers B-52 1957 Gordon Douglas
Bomber's Moon 1943
Breaking the Sound Barrier 1952 David Lean
Bride Came C.O.D., The 1941 William Keighley
Bridges at Toko-Ri 1954 Mark Robson
Bridge Too Far, A 1977 Richard Attenborough
Bush Pilot 1947 Sterling Campbell
By Dawn's Early Light 1990 Jack Sholder
- C -
Captain Eddie 1945 Lloyd Bacon
Captain Newman, MD 1963 David Miller
Captains of the Clouds 1942 Michael Curtiz
Carpetbaggers, The 1964 Edward Dmytryk
Catch 22 1970 Mike Nichols
Ceiling Zero 1935 Howard Hawks
Chain Lightning 1950 Stuart Heisler
China Clipper 1936 Ray Enright
China Doll 1958 Samuel Fuller
Cloud Dancer 1980 Barry Brown
Coast Guard 1939 Edward Ludwig
Cock of the Air 1932 Tom Buckingham
Command Decision 1948 Sam Wood
Con Air 1997 Simon West
Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, The 1955 Otto Preminger
Crowded Sky, The 1960 Joseph Pevney
- D -
Dam Busters, The 1954 Michael Anderson
Darling Lili 1970 Blake Edwards
Dark Blue World 2001 Jan Sverak
Dark Star 1973 John Carpenter
Dawn Patrol. The 1930 Howard Hawks
Dawn Patrol, The 1938 Edmund Goulding
Desperate Journey 1942 Raoul Walsh
Devil Dogs of the Air 1935 Lloyd Bacon
Dirigible 1931 Frank Capra
Dive Bomber 1941 Michael Curtiz
Dragonfly Squadron 1954 Lesley Selander
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick
- E -
Eagle and the Hawk, The 1933 Mitchell Leisen
Eagle Squadron 1942 Arthur Lubin
Empire of the Sun 1987 Steven Spielberg
English Patient, The 1996 Anthony Minghella
Enola Gay: The Men, The Mission, and the Atomic Bomb
Eternal Sea, The 1955 John H. Auer
- F -
Fail Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet
Fate is the Hunter 1964 Ralph Nelson
Fearless 1993 Peter Weir
Ferry Pilot 1941
Fighter Attack 1953 Lesley Selander
Fighter Squadron 1948 Raoul Walsh
Final Approach 1991 Eric Steven Stah
Final Countdown 1980 Don Taylor
Final Destination
Fire Birds 1990 David Green
FireFox 1982 Clint Eastwood
First of the Few, The 1942 Leslie Howard
Flaming Sky 1940
Flat Top 1952 Lesley Selander
Flight 1929 Frank Capra
Flight Command 1940 Frank Borzage
Flight for Freedom 1943 Lothar Mendes
Flight from Ashiya 1964 Michael Anderson
Flight from Glory 1937 Lew Landers
Flight into Danger 1960 Arthur Hailey
Flight Lieutenant 1942 Sidney Salkow
Flight of the Eagle, The 1982 Jan Troell
Flight of the Intruder 1991 John Milius
Flight of the Lost Balloon 1961 Nathan Juran
Flight of the Phoenix, The 1965 Robert Aldrich
Fly Away Home 1996 Carroll Ballard
Flying Irishma, The 1939 Leigh Jason
Flying Leathernecks 1951 Nicholas Ray
Flying Tigers 1942 David Miller
- G -
Gathering of Eagles
God is My Co-Pilot 1943 Robert Florey
Great Santini. The 1979 Lewis Carlino
Great Waldo Pepper, The 1975 George Roy Hill
Guy Named Joe, A 1943 Victor Fleming
Gypsy Moths, The 1969 John Frankenheimer
- H -
Hell Divers 1932 George Hill
Hell's Angels 1930 Howard R. Hughes
High and the Mighty, The 1954 William A. Wellman
Hindenburg, The 1975 Robert Wise
Hot Shots! 1991 Jim Abrahams
Hot Shots! Part Deux 1993 Jim Abrahams
- I -
Illegal Traffic
I'm From Missouri
International Spy
International Squadron 1941 Lothar Mendes
Iron Eagle 1986 Sidney J. Furie
I Wanted Wings 1941
- J -
Jet Pilot 1957 Josef von Sternberg
- K -
Keep 'Em Flying 1941 Arthur Lubin
- L -
Ladies Courageous 1944 John Rawlins
Lady Takes a Flyer, The 1957 Jack Arnold
Lafayette Escadrille 1958 William A. Wellman
Lion Has Wings, The 1939 Michael Powell
Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 Werner Herzog
- M -
McConnell Story, The 1955 Gordon Douglas
Memphis Belle 1944 William Wyler
Memphis Belle 1990 Michael Caton-Jones
Men With Wings 1938 William A. Wellman
Merrill's Marauders
Men of the Fighting Lady Andrew Marten
Midway 1976 Walter Mirisch
Mosquito Squadron 1970 Boris Segal
Murphy's War 1971 Peter Yates
- N -
Navy Born 1936
Night Flier, The 1997 Mark Pavia
Night Flight 1933 Clarence Brown
No Highway in the Sky 1951 Henry Koster
Non-stop Flight, The 1926
Now We're in the Air 1927 Frank R. Strayer
- O -
One Week of Love 1922
One of Our Aircraft is Missing 1942 Michael Power & Emeric Pressburger
Only Angels Have Wings 1939 Howard Hanks
Operation Crossbow Michael Anderson
Our Neighbors the Cartiers
Outlaws of the Orient 1937
Out of the Clouds 1955 Basil Dearden
- P -
Pancho Barnes 1988 Richard Heffron
Parachute Battalion 1941 Leslie Goodwins
Parachute Jumper 1933 Alfred E. Green
Pilot, The 1979 Cliff Robertson
Pilot #5 1943 George Sidney
Pushing Tin 1999 Mike Newell
- Q -
Q Planes 1939 Tim Whelan
- R -
Race to the Yankee Zephyr 1981 David Hemmings
Reach for the Sky 1956 Lewis Gilbert
Right Stuff, The 1983 Philip Kaufman
Rocketeer, The 1991 Joe Johnson
- S -
633 Squadron 1964 Walter Grauman
Sky Bandits 1986 Zoran
Sky Commando 1953 Fred F. Sears
Sky Devils 1932 A. Edward Sutherland
Sky Giant 1938 Lew Landers
Skyjacked (Sky Terror) 1972 John Guillermin
Sky's the Limit, The 1943 Edward H. Griffith
Sky Riders 1976 Douglas Hickox
Skyward 1980 Ron Howard
Spirit of St. Louis, The 1957 Billy Wilder
Spitfire 1942 Leslie Howard
Strategic Air Command 1955 Anthony Mann
Sundown 1941 Henry Hathaway
Suzy 1936 George Fitzmaurice
- T -
Tail Spin 1939 Roy Del Ruth
Tarnished Angels 1957 Douglas Sirk
Task Force 1949 Delmer Daves
Test Pilot 1938 Victor Fleming
They Flew Alone 1941 Herbert Wilcox
They Were Expendable 1945 John Ford
Things to Come 1936 William Menzies
Thirteen Days 2000 Roger Donaldson
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 1944 Mervyn LeRoy
Those Fantastic Flying Fools 1967 Don Sharp
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines 1965 Ken Annakin
Thunder Birds 1942 William A. Wellman
Thunderbirds 1952 John Auer
Thundering Jets 1958 Helmut Dantine
Top Gun 1986 Tony Scott
Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 Toshio Masuda & Richard Fleischer
Toward the Unknown 1956 Mervyn LeRoy
Turbulence 1997 Robert Butler
Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying 1999 David Mackay
Tuskegee Airmen, The 1995 Robert Markowitz
Twelve O'clock High 1949 Henry King
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick
- U -
- V -
View from the Top 2003 Bruno Barreto 87
Von Richthofen and Brown
(Battle of the Aces) 1971 Roger Corman
- W -
Wake Island 1942 John Farrow
War Lover, The 1962 Phillip Leacock
West Point of the Air 1935 Richard Rosson
Wild Blue Yonder 1951 Allan Dwan
Wing and a Prayer, A 1944 Henry Hathaway
Winged Victory 1944 George Cukor
Wings 1927 William A. Wellman
Wings Against the Wind 1999
Wings for the Eagle 1942 Lloyd Bacon
Wings in the Dark 1935 James Flood
Wings of Chance 1961 Edward Dew
Wings of Courage 1995 Jean-Jacques Annaud
Wings of Eagles, The 1957 John Ford
War - WWI MGM No
Wings of the Apache (Fire Birds) 1990 David Green
Wings of the Navy 1939 Lloyd Bacon
Wings Over Honolulu 1935 H. C. Potter
Woman I Love, The 1937 Anatole Litvak
Women in the Wind 1939 John Farrow
- X -
- Y -
Yank in the RAF, A 1941 Henry King
You Came Along 1945 John Farrow
You Gotta Stay Happy 1948 H. C. Potter
Young Eagles 1930
Young Whirlwind 1928
- Z -
Zeppelin 1971 Etienne Perier
Zero Hour 1957 Hall Bartlett
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