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1. Independence Day (1996)
PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.
Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell
Votes: 605,504 | Gross: $306.17M
2. The Aviator (2004)
PG-13 | 170 min | Biography, Drama
A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly
Votes: 384,023 | Gross: $102.61M
3. Fracture (2007)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike
Votes: 218,871 | Gross: $39.02M
4. The Wind Rises (2013)
PG-13 | 126 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Jiro Horikoshi studies assiduously to fulfill his aim of becoming an aeronautical engineer. As WWII begins, fighter aircraft designed by him end up getting used by the Japanese Empire against its foes.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki | Stars: Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto, Masahiko Nishimura
Votes: 98,719 | Gross: $5.21M
5. Lord of the Flies (1963)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin
Votes: 20,412
6. The Andromeda Strain (2008)
44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Ricky Schroder, Louis Ferreira
Votes: 14,611
7. Amelia (2009)
PG | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 13,618 | Gross: $14.24M
8. The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
PG | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A NASA astronaut, forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never given up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government's threats to stop him.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Virginia Madsen, Bruce Dern, Max Thieriot
Votes: 23,280 | Gross: $11.00M
9. Flight to Mars (1951)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Five astronauts successfully fly to Mars where they encounter seemingly friendly and advanced inhabitants who harbor covert plans to use their ship to invade Earth.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Marguerite Chapman, Cameron Mitchell, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston
Votes: 1,337
10. Dive Bomber (1941)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
A military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith
Votes: 2,059
11. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Approved | 135 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Votes: 8,606
12. Lafayette Escadrille (1958)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance, War
American youth and flying ace flies for France in World War I, meets and loves a French girl and a prostitute.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Tab Hunter, Clint Eastwood, Etchika Choureau, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 932
13. Flight from Ashiya (1964)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Romance, Drama
A flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker
Votes: 717
14. Space (1985)
780 min | Drama
A 13-hour mini-series detailing James A. Michner's fictional account of the American space program from the years after World War II to the Apollo landings on the moon in the early 1970s.
Stars: James Garner, Susan Anspach, Blair Brown, Bruce Dern
Votes: 259
15. Wittgenstein (1993)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter, Gina Marsh
Votes: 2,928
16. Battle of the Stars (1978)
PG-13 | 95 min | Sci-Fi
A spaceship investigates an out-of-control planet and discovers a computer that controls an underground civilization.
Director: Alfonso Brescia | Stars: John Richardson, Yanti Somer, Walter Maestosi, Massimo De Cecco
Votes: 343
17. The Plane Makers (1963–1965)
60 min | Drama
The day-to-day story of a multi-million pound aerospace company, its new jet plane, its test-pilot, its workers and its ruthless and hard-nosed managing director John Wilder, the embodiment of modern, unflinching capitalism.
Stars: Jack Watling, Patrick Wymark, Norma Ronald, Reginald Marsh
Votes: 44
18. Men Against the Sky (1940)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Alcoholic pilot struggles to turn his life around.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie
Votes: 149
19. 20, 000 Men a Year (1939)
Passed | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Randolph Scott, Preston Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Mary Healy
Votes: 100
20. Fifty Years Before Your Eyes (1950)
Approved | 72 min | Documentary, History, Sport
Documentary about the major events of the first fifty years of the Twentieth Century.
Director: Robert Youngson | Stars: Arthur Godfrey, Quentin Reynolds, H.V. Kaltenborn, Clem McCarthy
Votes: 21
21. Young America Flies (1940)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Adventure, Romance
Four young student pilots, each with different long term ambitions, work to become certified in their chosen field.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Jean Parker, Donald Woods, William Lundigan, Henry O'Neill
Votes: 41
22. Fighter Mafia
Action, Adventure, Biography | Announced
The true story of Colonel John Boyd, a maverick fighter pilot who forms an obscure and subversive team of brilliant acolytes that takes on the powerful military-industrial complex to form a movement that reshapes the art of war.
23. The Blue Streak Rocket: Britain's Part in Europe's Space Plan (1964)
15 min | Documentary, Short, History
The building and launch of the British-made Blue Streak rocket.
Director: Derek Mayne | Stars: Tim Turner, P. Girardin, Mrs. Lawrence
Votes: 13
24. Picard & Kirk Into Space (2012)
Documentary, Short, Adventure
A group of Star Trek fans and engineering students team up to send the greatest starship captains to ever exist into space for the first time in reality.
Director: Logan Kugler | Stars: Logan Kugler, Spencer Gore, Daniel Kumor, Brishen Hawkins
Votes: 9
25. Animals Aloft (2009)
46 min | Documentary
Flying dogs, tigers, monkeys and more. Discover the incredible war stories and barnstorming adventures of aviation's animal pioneers.
26. Alas de España (1962)
Documentary, Short
Short documentary about aeronautics on the 50th anniversary of the Spanish aviation.
Star: Francisco Cantalejo
28. Posting Woomera (1960)
17 min | Documentary, Short, History
Director: John Bennett | Star: Stewart Ginn
29. Trois garçons et un planeur (1948)
44 min | Short, Adventure
Director: Jean Perdrix | Stars: Maurice Baquet, Cécile Barrette, André Bourillon, Jacqueline Figus
30. Space Heroes (2022– )
26 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
The TV series about the citizens making Humanity into a space-faring civilization.
Star: Frederic Eger
31.
This Is America, Charlie Brown (1988–1989)
Episode:
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
(1988)
25 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Linus's cousin Dolly witness the Wright Brothers' first flight. Snoopy and Woodstock demonstrates the principles of flight.
Director: Sam Jaimes | Stars: Erin Chase, Brandon Stewart, Brandon Horne, Jason Mendelson
Votes: 46
32.
We'll Meet Again (1982)
Episode:
All Day & Every Day
(1982)
75 min | Drama, Romance, War
In April 1943 the peace of Suffolk town Market Wetherby is shattered when brash American airmen arrive to take over the local base. Shopkeeper Albert Mundy is resentful but his daughter ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Susannah York, Michael Shannon, Ronald Hines, Lise Ann McLaughlin
Votes: 17
34.
Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode:
Dream Chaser - The Dream of Lifting Body Space Planes
(2021)
12 min | Documentary, News
The Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser is poised be the first lifting body space plane to progress beyond the test phase with its launch in 2023. A a lifting body it makes orbital reentry easier ... See full summary »
Star: Scott Manley
35.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Tödlicher Verrat
(2015)
Crime, Drama
Bastian Lehnhoff, chief of the security of Baviarator, has been killed by a hit on his crane.His corpse was discovered by Paul May.On the place Richard Voss notices that the dead was still ... See full summary »
Director: Marcus Weiler | Stars: Jan-Gregor Kremp, Michael Ande, Stephanie Stumph, Ludwig Blochberger
Votes: 18
36.
En direct de... (1956–1974)
Episode:
Le Bourget
(1967)
48 min | Documentary
Directors: Henri Carrier, Régis Forissier | Stars: Eugène Bollard, Joseph Choupin, Pierre Dubourg, Christian Quidet