Wings! 100 Aviation Films

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A personal choice of 100 aviation-related films.

Airplanes, experimental aircrafts, air balloons, helicopters: these, and their pilots, star in bold adventures where youth and bravery meet the ancient fascination for flight. Even though many of the titles here listed are proper war films, it would be wrong to reduce "aviation cinema" to a declination of the genre. This filmography therefore includes a great deal of films set outside the military universe.

Acknowledged classics like Wings (1927) and Only Angels Have Wings (1939) - made by aviators William Wellman and Howard Hawks - will be matched by typical examples of air combat pictures (e.g. The Blue Max; Battle of Britain), but also by more independent, reflexive works (e.g. The Great Waldo Pepper; Brewster McCloud). Furthermore, in some exceptional cases there will be listed titles which show important aerial scenes, but cannot be strictly defined as aviation pictures, being their main plotline sui generis or other than flight-related (e.g. Apocalypse Now; The Thing; Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner; The Falls).

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    Wings

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
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    Flight

    1929, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hell's Angels

    1930, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Dawn Patrol

    1930, in 1 top list Check
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    Dirigible

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
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    Hell Divers

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Last Flight

    1931, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Lost Squadron

    1932, in 1 top list Check
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    Air Mail

    1932, in 0 top lists Check
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    Central Airport

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
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    Night Flight

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Eagle and the Hawk

    1933, in 0 top lists Check
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    Devil Dogs of the Air

    1935, in 0 top lists Check
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    Aerograd

    1935 — a.k.a. Frontier, in 3 top lists Check
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    Ceiling Zero

    1936, in 1 top list Check
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    Atlantic Flight

    1937, in 0 top lists Check
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    Test Pilot

    1938, in 1 top list Check
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    The Dawn Patrol

    1938, in 1 top list Check
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    Luciano Serra, pilota

    1938 — a.k.a. Luciano Serra, Pilot, in 1 top list Check
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    Only Angels Have Wings

    1939, in 10 top lists Check
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    Flight Command

    1940, in 0 top lists Check
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    Dive Bomber

    1941, in 0 top lists Check
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    Valeriy Chkalov

    1941 — a.k.a. Wings of Victory, in 0 top lists Check
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    Un pilota ritorna

    1942 — a.k.a. A Pilot Returns, in 0 top lists Check
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    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    Flying Tigers

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    The First of the Few

    1942 — a.k.a. Spitfire, in 0 top lists Check
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    Captains of the Clouds

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air

    1942, in 0 top lists Check
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    Air Force

    1943, in 2 top lists Check
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    Bombardier

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    A Guy Named Joe

    1943, in 1 top list Check
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    Gente dell'aria

    1943, in 0 top lists Check
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    Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

    1944, in 0 top lists Check
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    Bush Pilot

    1947, in 0 top lists Check
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    Fighter Squadron

    1948, in 0 top lists Check
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    Twelve O'Clock High

    1949, in 4 top lists Check
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    Flying Leathernecks

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
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    Angels One Five

    1952, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Sound Barrier

    1952, in 3 top lists Check
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    Appointment in London

    1953 — a.k.a. Raiders in the Sky, in 0 top lists Check
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    Island in the Sky

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
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    The High and the Mighty

    1954, in 1 top list Check
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    The Bridges at Toko-Ri

    1954, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Dam Busters

    1955, in 2 top lists Check
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    Strategic Air Command

    1955, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Spirit of St. Louis

    1957, in 1 top list Check
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    Reach for the Sky

    1956, in 1 top list Check
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    Jet Pilot

    1957, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Wings of Eagles

    1957, in 2 top lists Check
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