Fighter (2000), Wings (1927), Hauru no ugoku shiro (2004), The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), Dunkirk (2017), Return to Hardwick (2019), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), Spitfire (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Aerial Combat movies.
Storyline: "Fighter" follows two friends, Jan Wiener, to whom the title refers, and Arnost Lustig, a writer - both in their seventies, and both exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia now living in America - as they retrace Wiener's escape from Prague after the Nazi takeover in the 1930s. Incorporating rare archival footage from Nazi and Communist propaganda films, the documentary focuses on the interaction between Wiener and Lustig as they retrace Wiener's steps.
Plot Keywords: action, war, military, adventure, drama, history, pilot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two brothers run a one-plane commuter service from a small Nantucket airport.
Plot Keywords: war, romance, silent film, classic, world war i, friendship, honor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A love story between an 18-year-old girl named Sophie, cursed by a witch into an old woman's body, and a magician named Howl. Under the curse, Sophie sets out to seek her fortune, which takes her to Howl's strange moving castle. In the castle, Sophie meets Howl's fire demon, named Karishifâ. Seeing that she is under a curse, the demon makes a deal with Sophie--if she breaks the contract he is under with Howl, then Karushifâ will lift the curse that Sophie is under, and she will return to her 18-year-old shape.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, romance, magic, steampunk, war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).
Plot Keywords: war, korean war, navy, sacrifice, heroism, patriotism, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Evacuation of Allied soldiers from the British Empire, and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German Army from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, France, between May 26- June 04, 1940, during Battle of France in World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, military, survival, british, french ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The 93rd Bomb Group was arguably the most decorated, most traveled and most effective bomb group of WWII. Helping to cripple Hitler's Europe from the air, they executed some of the most daring bombing raids of the war. Along with the group's rich history, sons, daughters and grandchildren travel to England and explore the 93rd's long forgotten air base - Hardwick.—Michael Sellers
Plot Keywords: war, history, documentary, world war ii, military, usa, uk ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this story of the early days of daylight bombing raids over Nazi Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a "hard luck" bomber group. Much of the story deals with his struggle to whip his group into a disciplined fighting unit in spite of heavy losses, and withering attacks by German fighters over their targets. Actual combat footage is used in this tense war drama.
Plot Keywords: war, military, world war ii, leadership, stress, psychological trauma, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II.
Plot Keywords: war, history, documentary, british, world war ii, military, heroism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1943, director William Wyler crafted 'Memphis Belle,' a tribute to the titular WWII bomber. Using footage from the National Archives shot by Wyler and his team, director Erik Nelson has created a new film, featuring narration from some of the last surviving B-17 pilots.—AFI Fest
Plot Keywords: documentary, world war ii, aviation, history, war, usa, archival footage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war i, sacrifice, honor, moral dilemma, leadership, stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. As United States and Japanese relations strain over the U.S. embargo of raw materials, Air Staff Officer Minoru Genda (Tatsuya Mihashi) plans the preemptive strike against the United States. Although American intelligence agencies intercept Japanese communications hinting at the attack, they are unwilling to believe such a strike could ever occur on U.S. soil.
Plot Keywords: war, history, pearl harbor, world war ii, japan, military, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The British are desperate to shorten the length of World War II and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first, the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.—Dave Jenkins <david.jenkins@smallworld.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, british, true story, military operation, bombing ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: March 15, 1939: Germany invades Czechoslovakia. Czech and Slovak pilots flee to England, joining the RAF. After the war, back home, they are put in labor camps, suspected of anti-Communist ideas. This film cuts between a post-war camp where Franta is a prisoner and England during the war, where Franta is like a big brother to Karel, a very young pilot. On maneuvers, Karel crash lands by the rural home of Susan, an English woman whose husband is MIA. She spends one night with Karel, and he thinks he's found the love of his life. It's complicated by Susan's attraction to Franta. How will the three handle innocence, Eros, friendship, and the heat of battle? When war ends, what then?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, nazis, occupation, friendship, romance, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in their struggle to survive while fighting the enemy.
Plot Keywords: war, adventure, action, drama, history, world war i, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Australian biopic about the life of pioneering aviator Charles "Smithy" Kingsford-Smith.
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, war, drama, history, navy, combat ...
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