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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  1. 83 new

    Top Gun

    1986, in 8 top lists Check
  2. 75 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
  3. 56 new

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  4. 92 new

    The Aviator

    2004, in 8 top lists Check
  5. 90 new

    Black Hawk Down

    2001, in 5 top lists Check
  6. 78 new

    The Thing

    1982, in 20 top lists Check
  7. 95 new

    United 93

    2006, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 96 new

    Flight

    2012, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 88 new

    Kurenai no buta

    1992 — a.k.a. Porco Rosso, in 3 top lists Check
  10. 97 new

    Kaze tachinu

    2013 — a.k.a. The Wind Rises, in 4 top lists Check
  11. 81 new

    The Right Stuff

    1983, in 13 top lists Check
  12. 66 new

    Airport

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 84 new

    Always

    1989, in 1 top list Check
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    Top Gun: Maverick

    2022, in 7 top lists Check
  15. 69 new

    Catch-22

    1970, in 5 top lists Check
  16. 79 new

    Firefox

    1982, in 1 top list Check
  17. 82 new

    Iron Eagle

    1986, in 1 top list Check
  18. 94 new

    Rescue Dawn

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 98 new

    Sully

    2016, in 1 top list Check
  20. 85 new

    Air America

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    Only Angels Have Wings

    1939, in 10 top lists Check
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    Wings

    1927, in 12 top lists Check
  23. 80 new

    Blue Thunder

    1983, in 1 top list Check
  24. 63 new

    Battle of Britain

    1969 — a.k.a. The Battle of Britain, in 1 top list Check
  25. 67 new

    Tora! Tora! Tora!

    1970, in 3 top lists Check
  26. 49 new

    Jet Pilot

    1957, in 2 top lists Check
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    Mudbound

    2017, in 2 top lists
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  28. 37 new

    Twelve O'Clock High

    1949, in 4 top lists Check
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    Flight of the Intruder

    1991, in 0 top lists Check
  30. 47 new

    The Spirit of St. Louis

    1957, in 1 top list Check
  31. 45 new

    The Dam Busters

    1955, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Hindenburg

    1975, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 86 new

    Memphis Belle

    1990, in 0 top lists Check
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    The Sound Barrier

    1952, in 3 top lists Check
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    Test Pilot

    1938, in 1 top list Check
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    The White Diamond

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
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    Brewster McCloud

    1970, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 43 new

    The High and the Mighty

    1954, in 1 top list Check
  39. 58 new

    Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines...

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  40. 14 new

    Aerograd

    1935 — a.k.a. Frontier, in 3 top lists Check
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    Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner

    1974 — a.k.a. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Flight of the Phoenix

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
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    Flying Leathernecks

    1951, in 0 top lists Check
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    A Guy Named Joe

    1943, in 1 top list Check
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    Hell's Angels

    1930, in 2 top lists Check
  46. 65 new

    Krasnaya palatka

    1969 — a.k.a. The Red Tent, in 0 top lists Check
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    Tmavomodrý svet

    2001 — a.k.a. Dark Blue World, in 1 top list Check
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    The Wings of Eagles

    1957, in 2 top lists Check
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    X-15

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
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    633 Squadron

    1964 — a.k.a. Squadron 633, in 0 top lists Check
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