The Flight of the Phoenix (1965), Kon-Tiki (2012), Pacific Adventure (1947), The Purple Plain (1954), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), Space Cowboys (2000), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Twister (1996) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Navigator movies.
Storyline: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
Plot Keywords: survivor, captain, pilot, navigator, worker, soldier, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations, they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers, while the world was waiting for the result of the trip. The film tells about the origin of the idea, the preparations, and the events on the trip. The "Kon-Tiki" was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, and "Kon-Tiki" is an old name for this god. Heyerdahl filmed the expedition, which later became the Academy Award winning documentary in 1951, and he wrote a book about the expedition that was translated into 70 languages and sold more than 50 millions copies around the world. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times, although most anthropologists now believe they did not...
Plot Keywords: adventurer, navigator, crew member, companion, incredible, uplifting, norway ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles "Smithy" Kingsford-Smith.
Plot Keywords: pilot, prime minister, navigator, air traffic controller, crew member, spirited, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air raid, bomber pilot Forrester becomes a solitary killing machine, who doesn't care whether he dies. The reckless Canadian pilot is both admired and feared by the rest of his squadron in World War II Burma. The squadron physician is assigned to determine the embittered Bill Forrester's fitness for duty. To break through the nightmare-haunted man's wall of silence, the physician drives Forrester to visit an outpost of English-speaking refugees, which includes an alluring young Burmese woman.—David Stevens
Plot Keywords: pilot, commander, physician, nurse, sister, navigator, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a joyous wedding between William Riker and Deanna Troi, Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew stumble upon a positronic signature which results in a prototype version of the android Data. Then the Enterprise is invited to Romulus to negotiate a peace treaty with the Romulans by their new leader, Praetor Shinzon. However, Shinzon is revealed to be a clone of Picard who was raised on Remus, a slave planet to the Romulans. Later on, Picard discovers that this peace treaty was nothing more than a set-up on account of the fact that Shinzon needs Picard in order to survive. But little do the Enterprise crew know that Shinzon also plans to do away with the Federation by unleashing a weapon that could destroy a whole planet.
Plot Keywords: captain jean-luc picard, navigator, officer, crew member, clone, thrilling, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a Russian satellite orbiting the Earth starts to veer off course. It seems like the guidance system in the satellite is of American origin. It's important to try and fix it before it comes into the atmosphere. N.A.S.A. man, Bob Gerson (James Cromwell) tries to find out who designed it, and discovers that it was designed by Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), an Air Force pilot who, forty years ago, was part of a team who was originally suppose to go to space, but when N.A.S.A. was formed and Gerson's influence, they were dropped. Gerson asks Frank to help, but Frank still holds a grudge. But after some prodding, he agrees but only if he and his team can go there so he can fix it. Gerson reluctantly agrees, so Frank recruits his former team members, "Tank" Sullivan (James Garner), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and "Hawk" Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones) to join him. After some strenuous tests, they're cleared. And they go up with two other astronauts and check out the satellite and ...
Plot Keywords: pilot, engineer, navigator, friend, boss, wife, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A massive alien spacecraft of enormous power destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers as it makes its way towards Federation space. Admiral James T. Kirk is ordered to take command of the USS Enterprise for the first time since her historic five-year mission. The Epsilon IX space station alerts the Federation, but they are also destroyed by the alien spacecraft. The only starship in range is the Enterprise, after undergoing a major overhaul in drydock orbiting Earth. Kirk rounds up the rest of his crew, and acquires some new members, and sets off to intercept the alien spacecraft. However, it has been three years since Kirk last went into deep space - is he up to the task of saving Earth?
Plot Keywords: captain kirk, scientist, doctor, alien, navigator, engineer, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.
Plot Keywords: professor, meteorologist, student, husband, navigator, rival, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.
Plot Keywords: captain, pilot, navigator, oil worker, drifter, smuggler, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An adventurer, Passepartout, ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.
Plot Keywords: inventor, thief, servant, ninja, king, navigator, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.
Plot Keywords: pilot, explorer, husband, navigator, woman, engaging, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually, that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: pilot, navigator, tourist, undercover agent, amusing, madcap, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a typhoon cripples their boat, the crew sails into the eye of the storm, where they discover a high-tech Russian communications and research vessel adrift. Only one Russian crew member is still alive, raving about "intelligent lightning." They soon discover that an alien life form has taken over the ship's computers and is churning out mechanical warriors. With their own boat destroyed, the crew must battle the creature as the ship reenters the storm.
Plot Keywords: navigator, ship captain, russian, sailor, survivor, engineer, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This docudrama chronicles the life and mysterious disappearance of boundary-breaking pilot Amelia Earhart (Diane Keaton). Pushed into the limelight by her husband, publisher George Putnam (Bruce Dern), Earhart is set to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe at the equator. As the publicity mounts behind her fateful 1937 flight, Earhart trains with pilot Paul Mantz (Paul Guilfoyle) and clashes with Putnam over the inclusion of navigator Fred Noonan (Rutger Hauer) on the voyage.
Plot Keywords: publisher, pilot, navigator, husband, young woman, inspiring, endearing ...
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