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1) Pearl Harbor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two childhood best friends, Rafe and Danny, grow up wanting to fly planes. When Rafe gets the chance to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he takes it, leaving his new love, Evelyn, a dedicated Navy nurse, and Danny, also a pilot, behind. Danny and Evelyn are transferred separately to the idyllic paradise of Hawaii, where they eventually meet through a connection to Rafe, who has been declared missing. But just as the love triangle begins...
Language
English
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Description
After more than thirty years of service as a top naval aviator, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot. Yet, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past when he returns to TOPGUN to train a group of elite graduates and comes face to face with Lt. Bradshaw (Miles Teller), the son of his former wingman "Goose". Bitter rivalries ignite as the pilots prepare for a specialized mission...
Language
English
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Description
It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when Black flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission over Berlin in his unarmed Spitfire to obtain photographic evidence and save the lives of 1200 men.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
7) The blue max
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
Language
English
Description
Commander Frank 'Spig' Wead was a pioneer aviator, renowned screenwriter, and a man of war. The skies beckoned Spig to action; a crippling injury ultimately left him powerless to act, propelling him to discover the power of his pen. He was talented, driven, flawed, and a friend of John Ford.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Seventeen of the original Airmen came together to tell their story in a way never before seen: in their own words. The story is progressed by the different Airmen, each contributing an integral part without the reliance on narration and whisks the viewer through laughter and tears, all while telling a historic and inspirational story of hope and perseverance in the face of adversity.
10) Hell's angels
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Three Oxford buddies fight on opposite sides during WWI. Each is torn between obedience to his country and that of his conscience. The most expensive movie of its time, the film features extensive aerial photography of a dogfight between R.A.F and German fighter planes.
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Determined to join the fight against Nazi Germany, Earl Kir, a young South African pilot, volunteers his services to the Royal Air Force. While in combat, Kirk and his crew are forced to parachute into Nazi occupied territory, where they are hunted by a vengeful German SS Officer, who will stop at nothing than to find, capture and kill them all.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Contains amazing air combat footage from WWII archives and firsthand accounts of the greatest air battes. The surviving fighter aces from all sides of the conflict provide vivid accounts of what it was like to be a fighter pilot in some of the most daring air battles of WWII.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Disappearance of flight 412: Colonel Pete Moore is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group, which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To ferret out the problem, he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412. Shortly into the test, the jet picks up three blips on radar, and subsequently, two fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear. At this point, Flight 412 is monitored and forced to land by Digger Control, a top-level,...
14) Air America
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two pilots become ensnared in covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
RAF Flight Lieutenant Toby Jugg is wounded during the war and confined to a wheelchair. He arrives at a remote mansion in Wales to recuperate. While recovering he begins to suffer from terrible nightmares and visions. Toby finds that he can't trust the hospital staff and psychologists, especially once other patients begin to die.
16) The Purple Heart
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a group of American flyers take part in the first U.S. air retaliation attack against Japan and crash-land into history's most astounding prisoner-of-war story. The "Doolittle Raiders" are put on trial in a Japanese civil court, not as P.O.W.s, but as criminals charged with murder. As this travesty of justice proceeds, the airmen realize that their only hope of avoiding execution is to reveal to their...
17) Bombers B-52
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ever since a run-in during the Korean War, grizzled airplane mechanic Sgt. Chuck Brennan has disliked hotshot pilot Col. Jim Herlihy. Brennan has a new reason to be ticked off: Helihy is dating his daughter. Central to Cold War-era preparedness is the new airship they're putting through a key test run: the 200-ton B-52 Stratofortress. There is no room for animosity, because on this flight, danger rides the skies.
18) The dawn patrol
Series
Errol Flynn signature collection volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Errol Flynn and David Niven star as roustabout British flyboys who come face-to-face with the harsh realities of war. Basil Rathbone is outstanding as the Squadron Commander.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After his wife is killed during the Blitz, neurotic and suicidal Squadron Leader Bill Forrester (Gregory Peck) is bent on achieving one thing in the war: his own death. Fellow airmen see him as hostile, incommunicative and prone to nightmares and anxiety attacks. But when Forrester's plane crash-lands in enemy territory, he realizes that he must save himself in order to guide his two injured companions to safety. As they cross the Burmese desert,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Next time we love: When an ambitious newsman marries an aspiring actress, their love is put to the test as their careers move them in different directions.
You gotta stay happy: A runaway heiress hooks up with a struggling pilot for a wild cross-country ride in his cargo plane with a group of wacky passengers.
Thunder Bay: A pair of oil troubleshooters attempt to strike it rich despite devastating hurricanes, dangerous love affairs and a hostile...
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