Top 5 All Time Favourite Aviation Movies

1. Top Gun 

 Directed by Tony Scott, the 1986 drama takes you back to school and into the classroom with Tom Cruise as Maverick. Maverick competes with the other students to be the best in the elite Naval flying school while taking a few lessons from Charlie (played by Kelly McGillis), the civilian instructor.

2. Twelve O'clock High 

 Directed by Henry King in 1949, the movie uses real combat footage as General Frank Savage takes command of a struggling bomber unit in the US Army’s Eighth Air Force and whips them into shape. The movie is based on the novel, 12 O’Clock High, written by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr. in 1948.

3. The Aviator 

 The 2004 film directed by Martin Scorcese stars Leonardo DiCaprio in a biographical drama following the true life and career of director and aviator Howard Hughes from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. The movie follows the true story of Hughes as a movie producer and aviation pioneer, all the while struggling with severe Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

4. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines 

This 1965 good-humored film has it all, with wonderful replicas of both successful and unsuccessful early flying machines, beautiful scenery and a great cast that includes Terry Thomas, Sarah Miles and Irina Demick as Brigitte, Ingrid, Marlene, Francoise, Yvette and Betty. Each of Demick's characters is gorgeous, dutifully surprised and wonderfully willing. Even though the replica aircraft had more reliable power plants and were better built than the originals, they were still challenging to fly, and they nicely convey just how magnificent flying truly was in the first decade of flight.

5. Air Force One

 Wolfgang Peterson directs the 1997 film in which the President of the United States of America (played by Harrison Ford), along with his wife and daughter, are taken hostage aboard the President’s own plane, Air Force One.

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