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1. Masters of the Air (2024)

TV-MA | 56 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

During World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside an aluminum bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle antiaircraft fire and unrelenting flocks of German fighters.

Stars: Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Austin Butler, Darragh Cowley

Votes: 46,056

2. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, War

An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 519,318 | Gross: $0.28M

3. Captain Marvel (2019)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck | Stars: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law

Votes: 612,498 | Gross: $426.83M

4. Devotion (II) (2022)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Biography, Drama

A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski

Votes: 28,161

5. Aloha (I) (2015)

PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Alec Baldwin

Votes: 71,190 | Gross: $20.99M

6. Memphis Belle (1990)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, War

In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in the UK prepares for its 25th and final bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney

Votes: 30,603 | Gross: $27.44M

7. Project Blue Book (2019–2020)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.

Stars: Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, Laura Mennell, Ksenia Solo

Votes: 14,491

8. Iron Eagle (1986)

PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Thriller, War

A young pilot plans a rescue mission when his father, an Air Force Colonel, is shot down over enemy territory and captured.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Jason Gedrick, David Suchet, Tim Thomerson

Votes: 16,029 | Gross: $24.16M

9. Fail Safe (1964)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?

Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy

Votes: 24,471

10. The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, War

In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin

Votes: 5,799

11. The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrives, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine, Phoebe Fox, Leanne Best

Votes: 29,608 | Gross: $26.50M

12. Toward the Unknown (1956)

Approved | 115 min | Drama, History, Romance

At the dawn of supersonic flight in the 1950s, a group of Edwards Air Force Base experimental aircraft test pilots push themselves to the limit.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: William Holden, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith, Charles McGraw

Votes: 731

13. China Doll (1958)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, War

American pilot Cliff Brandon, fighting the Japanese in China, finds himself the unintentional "owner" of a Chinese housekeeper, Shu-Jen. The unlikely couple falls in love and marries, but not without tragedy brought on by the war.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Victor Mature, Li Hua Li, Ward Bond, Bob Mathias

Votes: 603

14. Tonight and Every Night (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Musical, War

The theater in which this film is set was called The Windmill and performers there refused to be deterred by the blitz that was leveling much of London at the time.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Lee Bowman, Janet Blair, Marc Platt

Votes: 1,153

15. Come Fly with Me (2023 TV Movie)

TV-G | Romance

After landing a spot on the Thunderbirds team, an Air Force pilot must find a way to balance flying, family, and her budding romance with a widowed father.

Director: Michael Robison | Stars: Heather Hemmens, Niall Matter, Georgia Acken, Pietra Castro

Votes: 586

16. Iron Eagle II (1988)

PG | 105 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A joint U.S.- Soviet strike force is assembled to wipe out a nuclear base in an outlaw nation that plans to take the world hostage.

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Louis Gossett Jr., Mark Humphrey, Stuart Margolin, Alan Scarfe

Votes: 5,466 | Gross: $10.50M

17. Return to Christmas Creek (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Drama, Romance

With Christmas approaching, a career-focused Chicago app developer returns to her small hometown to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There she reunites with her estranged uncle and her childhood best friend, who she begins falling for.

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Tori Anderson, Stephen Huszar, Steven Weber, Kari Matchett

Votes: 2,423

18. The Christmas Setup (2020 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 85 min | Drama, Romance

As they enjoy the local holidays together, Hugo and Patrick's attraction to each other is undeniable but as Hugo receives word of a big promotion requiring a move to London, he must decide what is most important to him.

Director: Pat Mills | Stars: Ben Lewis, Blake Lee, Fran Drescher, Ellen Wong

Votes: 2,902

19. Thrill of a Romance (1945)

Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A swim teacher and a wealthy businessman are married after a brief courtship. A charming war hero falls in love with this newly-married woman, after her husband abandons her on their honeymoon for the sake of a business meeting.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Frances Gifford, Henry Travers

Votes: 911

20. The Verdict (2016 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

Can it be justified to shoot down a civilian plane, converted by terrorists into a deadly suicide missile? Can "human arithmetic" be a legal calculus?

Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Martina Gedeck, Florian David Fitz, Lars Eidinger

Votes: 1,330

21. Cornered (1945)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale

Votes: 2,465

22. Heaven Is Ours (1953)

102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A girl without a family commits petty thefts in order to support her grandmother. One day, she meets an officer of the Air Force who decides to take care of them.

Director: Dinos Dimopoulos | Stars: Antigoni Valakou, Aleka Katselli, Alekos Alexandrakis, Labros Konstadaras

Votes: 44

23. Timber Queen (1944)

Approved | 66 min | Drama

Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited is doing poorly, but Elaine gets an ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Beth Hughes, June Havoc, Sheldon Leonard

Votes: 114

24. Runaway Father (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama

A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.

Director: John Nicolella | Stars: Donna Mills, Jack Scalia, Chris Mulkey, Jenny Lewis

Votes: 101

25. Nebesnyy tikhokhod (1946)

83 min | Comedy, War

About three Russian pilots falling in love during the WWII.

Director: Semyon Timoshenko | Stars: Nikolay Kryuchkov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Vasili Neshchiplenko, Alla Parfanyak

Votes: 447

26. Song of the Dead (2005)

Not Rated | 86 min | Musical, Horror

Musical Horror Film. Spray missions intended to protect Americans against the dangerous 1000-year Mosquito Awakening, when, Terrorists infect it with the Jihad Resurrection Virus (JRV) for ... See full summary »

Director: Chip Gubera | Stars: John Gilbreth, Justin Stewart, Alicia Kauffman, Chip Gubera

Votes: 133

27. Flight Into Darkness (1935)

111 min | Drama

Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, ... See full summary »

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Annabella, Charles Vanel, Jean Murat, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Votes: 170

28. 100 Missions: Surviving Vietnam (2020)

44 min | Documentary, History, War

During the Vietnam War, US Air Force pilots who flew 100 combat missions could go home. The tension built relentlessly as they survived each sortie. This is the story of the survivors and the fallen.

Stars: Robin Olds, Michael Hankins, Ed Rasimus, Karl Richter

Votes: 64

29. Sigmund Jähn - Der erste Deutsche im All (2017 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Every child knew his name in East Germany, many wanted to be just like him. Schools and streets were named after this national hero. In the Socialist Eastern Bloc dictatorship of the GDR, ... See full summary »

Director: Rene Römer | Stars: Carsten Linke, Sigmund Jähn, Eberhard Köllner, Romy Mothes

30. The Yellow Squadron (1954)

86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

The year is 1954. The war in Korea has just ended and the superpowers stand by each side of the border. The peace in Europe is fragile and the cold war is imminent. At F8 - Air Force Base, ... See full summary »

Director: Stig Olin | Stars: Hasse Ekman, Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz, Sven Lindberg, Lars Ekborg

Votes: 168

31. The Shepherd (2022 Video)

33 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A De Havilland Vampire pilot flying home from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk on Christmas Eve 1957, suffers a complete electrical failure mid-flight. Lost in fog... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Parker

32. A Man Has Returned from Space (1961)

19 min | Documentary, Short

Film about flight of Yuriy Gagarin in space of April, 12, 1961.

Director: Yekaterina Vermishyova | Star: Yuri Gagarin

Votes: 24

33. Sky Pirates (1938)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Lethargic British air pilots are revived by "Horlick's Milk" to defeat the "Sky Pirates". Combo of intricately animated aerobatic dogfights where planes take on animal characteristics. One of Pal's most unique conceptions © Arnold Leibovit

Director: George Pal

Votes: 13

34. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Flying Aces/The Mermaid Returns (1980)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Tony Chilton returns to World War II in order to meet David, the father he never knew; and Princess Nyah the mermaid asks Roarke to help her learn about human love.

Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Robert Mandan, Dolly Read

Votes: 71

35. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roger Perry, DeForest Kelley

Votes: 4,326

36. The L.A. Complex (2012)
Episode: Now or Never (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

Beth and Simon spend the day with their estranged father. Abby reconnects with Gray. Sabrina moves in with Nick.

Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Jonathan Patrick Moore, Joe Dinicol, Andra Fuller, Dayle McLeod

Votes: 31

37. The L.A. Complex (2012)
Episode: Don't Say Goodbye (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

Connor seeks solace in Scienetics. Nick and Sabrina face a relationship crisis. Kal attempts to recover the hard drive. Abby makes a life-changing choice.

Director: Martin Gero | Stars: Jonathan Patrick Moore, Joe Dinicol, Andra Fuller, Dayle McLeod

Votes: 50

38. Dangerous Missions (1999–2002)
Episode: Foward Air Controllers (2000)

TV-PG | Documentary, War

Spotlighting Vietnam Air Force and Marine pilots who flew low over jungles to direct bombers to their targets

Director: Jonathan B. Taylor | Stars: Beau Billingslea, Richard M. Atchison, Iceal Hambleton, John Plaster

39. The Unit (2014–2018)
Episode: Mop in the Sky (2014)

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Director: Tal Pitel | Stars: Ilanit Levy, Meir Suissa, Ofer Domingez, Harel Slutzki

40. UFOs Declassified (2015)
Episode: Shoot 'em Down (2015)

Documentary, History

Fighter pilots in the UK, US, Iran, and Peru have encountered UFOs. What happens when a UFO gets too close for comfort? How does a pilot react when given the order to 'shoot 'em down'?

Director: Tim Wolochatiuk | Stars: Brad Cartner, Sammy Allouba, Dan Balcaban, Sean Band

Votes: 19