whats that high definition movie thats pure flying, they are doing aerobatic manouvers over the mountains, I think they are in red and white PC7s or somthing.. It was made in the last 5-10 or so years.. I cant think of the name at all, but the preview clips that ive seen are reallllly good. I just cant rember the name for the life of me.... Does anyone know which one that Im talking about? I would really like to see that one. ohh and another fun movie that has a lot of planes is Independence day ! lol

Forgot about "The Right Stuff". Fun movie.

Apart from all the excellen movies already mentioned (Always is one of my all-time favourites) I can throw these into the mix: BAT*21 A great behind-enemy-lines movie set in Vietnam with Gene Hackman as the guy on the ground and Danny Glover as the recon pilot trying to help him out. Lot's of great Cessna O-2 Skymaster flight scenes in there. --- Air America Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as part of the CiA run airline during the Vietnam war getting into trouble with local drug and weapon dealers. Many great flight scenes including a Pilatus Porter PC-6 and C-123 Providers. --- 2012 While realism is few and far between in this movie (stall? airspeed? what's that?) it's basically a chain of situations in which the protagonists (among them John Cusack) flee from impending doom by aircraft. Great visuals. --- Blue Thunder Roy Scheider in a police thriller about an advanced surveillance helicopter. The final showdown/helicopter chase with real aircraft flying down low between buildings needs to be seen to be believed. They don't make 'em like that anymore. --- Captains of the Clouds Canadian bush pilots go Air Force during World War II. Great movie! --- Dark Blue World (Tmavomodrý svet) A fantastic movie about Czech pilots serving in a British Spitfire squadron. The only downside: it reuses some stock footage from Battle of Britain during the combat scenes. But there is also lots of great original Spitfire footage. --- Eight Below While this movie mainly is about a pack of sled dogs being left behind in Antarctica after a base evacuation at the beginning of winter, it has quite a few nice aviation scenes. --- Executive Decision Terrorists hijack a 747 and intent to use it as a weapon. An advisor (Kurt Russel) and a team of Seals are being brought onto that aircraft with the help of an experimental F-117 that can dock with a cargo door midflight. Apart from that surprisingly realistic and exciting. --- Firebirds Top Gun with Apache helicopters. Silly movie, but stockful with amazing flight scenes of the real deal and Nicholas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young have a few nice scenes as well. --- Flightplan Thriller set on a fictional aircraft that has striking similarities with an Airbus 380. The somwhat silly story is counter-balanced by excellent acting on the parts of Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard and Sean Bean. --- The Hindenburg Semi-fictional disaster movie about the last flight of the Hindenburg. The DVD is atrocious (looks worse than VHS in parts) but the movie makes up for that. --- Iron Eagle A very silly movie about a kid attempting to save his father from captivity and impending execution in the middle East with an F-16. Very entertaining, though, and with a great soundtrack. If you are into 80s rock music that is... --- Midway Movie about the battle of Midway that relies heavily on stock footage from Tora! Tora! Tora! (see below). But it also has some original footage including a few PBY shots. --- Tora! Tora! Tora! A great and balanced view on the attack on Pearl Harbor. In parts it feels more like a documentary than a movie. Most likely the best cinematic adaptation of the subject matter. --- Pearl Harbor Well, as far as accuracy is concerned this is the opposite of Tora! Tora! Tora! But if you can see past the schmalz and the abundance of patrotism you get rewarded with some great flight scenes and action-packed combat. --- Murphy's War The sole survivor of a sunk destroyer attempts to fix up an abandoned water bi-plane to exact revenge on a German submarine. --- Only Angels Have Wings Cary Grant as the hot shot pilot of a bush flying operation in the Andes. Great footage and a fun movie! --- Passenger 57 Wesley Snipes goes singlehandedly against a crazy hijacker and his minions. --- Pushin' Tin Two rival air traffic controllers (John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton) fight about a woman (Angelina Jolie). --- The Rocketeer Set in the 1930s this adventure movie is partially set in the air race/air circus scene. Prepare to see a Gee Bee in action. And Howard Hughes is in there as well! --- Sky Fighters (Les Chevaliers du Ciel) The French (late) answer to Top Gun. The story is silly but the flight scenes are breathtaking! --- Snakes on a Plane Well, some Hawaiian crime boss attempts to take out an important witness on his flight from Hawaii to LA and lets loose hundreds of snakes on a 747. Of course, Sam Jackson has had it with these m****g snakes on the m****g plane and I think it's not much of a spoiler when I say that a simmer saves the day. Silly but fun movie. --- Stealth Knight Rider meets Top Gun. The arificial intelligence of a super-advanced stealth fighter goes haywire and AWOL. That's it for now and should keep you occupied for a while.

I am trying to find a nice plane movie for an inflight movie :( I know there is some really nice flying movies that have came out in the last few years but cant think of one name :( Im sorry if this isnt the right forum, but I dont kno what to put it in :(

"The Way to the Stars"."First of the Few"Not exactly recent, but you'll cry your eyes out. And in a good way....Ian

Not really a 'plane movie', but one worth watching and not just because it features several aircraft, including a barrage balloon, a 1920s flying boat, and the Avro Lancaster (which plays a pivotal role in the story) is the 1993 movie, Map of the Human Heart. Although it is essentially a love triangle story centred around WW2 (and a very inventive one at that) it has numerous flying sequences, including a startling recreation the Dresden firebombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, which is really amazingly convincing considering the film's budget, and as a movie it is probably one of the most memorable ones you'll ever see. It did virtually nothing at the box office when it was released, which is a real shame as it is far better than stuff of a similar ilk such as the dreadfully inferior The English Patient. If you get an opportunity to see it, you won't be sorry, it's a real epic with some great actors cropping up in it. It's another one which your wife/girlfriend would also happily watch too, since it has a really heartbreaking, and very convincing, love story threaded through it. Al

The Great Santini The Bridges at Toko RiThose Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines

The Airport series is the best IMHO. I can't tell you how many model 747's I sank in the bathtub/pool recreating the scene from Airport '77. Too bad the decals always floated away.Although not an aviation movie, the crash scene in Castaway is very convincing and there is a fair amount of aviation footage in the beginning of the movie.I've always loved disaster movies and if they are aviation related, all the better.Pet peeve (one that I am sure I share with everyone here): when any move shows stock aviation footage but get the aircraft wrong. Fake cockpits are the worst but when I see someone in a movie board a 747 and the landing footage shows a 737, I become infuriated.

A Gathering of Eagles (1963).A movie about strategic Air Command, starring Rock Hudson, and Rod taylor.If you like B-52's, this is the movie to watch.Regards.Ernie.

Idaho Exposed. Best aviation doc I've seen. Spectacular bush flying in a Cessna 185.Also The Swiss Air Force docs by Lionel Charlet are stunning!

This movie which combines an airplane with horror would be appropriate for Halloween...The Ghost of Flight 401 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077610/I worked for Delta Air Lines at ORD back in the seventies and my friends at Eastern swore that this story was true. Whenever they had a L1011 in their hanger for a overnight check that had salvaged parts installed from flt 401 strange things would happen like the planes interior lights inexplicably flashing on and off when no one was on board the aircraft.

Now that someone mention B52s and SAC, i remember another movie called "By dawn's early light" with James Earl Jones.

Doctor Strangelove