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).