Fail-Safe (1964), La grande vadrouille (1966), The Incredibles (2004), Twelve O'Clock High (1949), From Here to Eternity (1953), No Time for Sergeants (1958), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), Rescue Dawn (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Airplane Shot Down movies.
Storyline: Baron Manfred von Richthofen is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte, Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.
Plot Keywords: world war one, embroidery, fighter pilot, fighter plane, pilot, aviation, emperor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. Its makers want to show what it will do, but have to train Los Angeles Police pilot Frank Murphy to fly and use it in order to allow it to operate in the city. Murphy and the project pilot have differences going back to Vietnam. The conflict between them continues to heat up as Murphy begins to suspect that Blue Thunder is more than has been disclosed.
Plot Keywords: gatling gun, peeping tom, murder, helicopter crash, helicopter chase, exploding helicopter, darkness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While driving through the desert with his wife Carol Marvin to a military base to send the eleventh rocket into Earth orbit to assist the exploration of outer space in Operation Sky Hook, Dr. Russell A. Marvin and Carol see a flying saucer and accidentally records a message on their tape recorder. Once in the base, Dr. Russell is informed by his father-in-law and general that the ten first satellites mysteriously fell back to Earth. When Dr. Russell decodes the message, he encounters the aliens, who ask him to schedule a meeting with the leaders of Earth in Washington in 56 days in order to invade Earth without panicking the population. Dr. Russell develops an anti-magnetic weapon that becomes the last hope of the human race against the hostile aliens.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: female in swimsuit, bare chested male, spaceship, spacesuit, tape recording, time freeze, spaceship crash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air-war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron. In flashbacks, he recalls the arrival of the squadron, led by Executive Officer Joe Rodgers, and the campaigns in which the squadron participated and its desperate fight for survival prior to the climax of the war.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: airplane shot down, u.s. military, killed in action, world war two, u.s. navy, naval officer, aerial combat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war...
Plot Keywords: airplane crash, crush, drone, missile, explosion, machine gun, exploding helicopter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a daring attempt to end the war by Christmas, Winston Churchill and the British High Command hatch an extraordinary plan - Operation Market Garden. 35,000 British troops are dropped behind enemy lines in German occupied Holland. In the midst of the largest airborne invasion in history, one small unit of men, codename "Matchbox" has its own agenda. When Matchbox are shot down short of their landing zone, the odds of their success seem hopeless. Seven very different British soldiers find themselves separated from the Allied invasion, on a collision course with three renegade German soldiers who also want to lay claim to the horde.—RS
Plot Keywords: american flag, machine gun, battle, death, murder, british army, airplane crash ...
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