The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), Bat 21 (1988), Return to Hardwick (2019), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Cold Blue (2018), Spitfire (1942), Memphis Belle (1990), The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Air Force movies.
Storyline: Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, military, usa, patriotic, training, play adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspection that the previous commander had failed, and had been fired for. He is also recently married, and as a tough commanding officer doing whatever he has to do to shape his men up, his wife sees a side to him that she hadn't seen before.—Roger Dearnaley <roger@paperart.com>
Plot Keywords: war, military, cold war, usa, nuclear weapons, strategy, leadership ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At an American air base in England, 1943, is conniving Sergeant Dolan, who manipulates everyone, and insubordinate ace fighter pilot Major Ed Hardin. When Ed is promoted to commander of his group, he must fight his former anti-authority stance as well as the enemy; tension grows as D-Day approaches. Generally lighthearted between moments of technicolor gore; lots of air combat footage, much of it genuine.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, action, military, historical, world war ii, american, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London, Roy Walsh (James Kenney) and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Walsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, british, rescue, survival, military, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular, if somewhat jingoistic, battle sequence.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, military, usa, patriotic, training, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mission of Honor is the story of Hurricane Squadron 303, a group of brave pilots who fought in the skies over England in WW2, not just to keep Great Britain free from the Nazis, but also to keep alive the very idea of their own country, which had existed in its modern form for barely twenty years before it was crushed between the opposing jaws of Germany and Russia. Equipped with the almost-obsolete Hurricane and (with some initial reluctance) given RAF blue uniforms, while they fought, Poland lived.
Plot Keywords: war, history, world war ii, british, heroism, military, combat ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: U.S Air Force Sgt. Chuck Brennan always disliked playboy and hotshot, Col. Jim Herlihy. He first met him in Korea, where his emergency arrival for repairs while enroute for what Chuck thought was the colonels "hot date" in Tokyo, caused the death of several of his crewmen. Now several years later when Chuck, while still in the Air Force, is now weighing continued enlistment or retirement, the base's new C.O. is none other than Col. Herlihy. Compounding his dislike is a budding romance with Chuck's daughter, Lois.—Bill Walch
Plot Keywords: war, military, cold war, usa, 1950s, drama, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky - even as they battle discrimination on the ground. It's a tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
Plot Keywords: war, history, action, drama, world war ii, racial discrimination, heroism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A father and son aviation drama, in which a gruff sergeant wants to make a man and a flyer out of his young son.
Plot Keywords: war, military, training, pilot, usa, 1930s, black and white ...
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