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Saludos Amigos
1943 live-action/animated film by Walt Disney
Independence Day
1996 film directed by Roland Emmerich
Chicken Run
2000 British stop-motion animated comedy film
The Aviator
2004 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Apollo 13
1995 film by Ron Howard
The Terminal
2004 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Top Gun
1986 film directed by Tony Scott
Pearl Harbor
2001 film by Michael Bay
Wings
1927 film by William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast
Final Destination
2000 film directed by James Wong
Die Hard 2
1990 film directed by Renny Harlin
Empire of the Sun
1987 film directed by Steven Spielberg
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler
Up in the Air
2009 comedy-drama film by Jason Reitman
Around the World in 80 Days
1956 film directed by Michael Anderson
Mortal Engines
2018 film directed by Christian Rivers
Top Gun: Maverick
2022 film directed by Joseph Kosinski
Con Air
1997 film directed by Simon West
Sully
2016 film directed by Clint Eastwood
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a 2025 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the direct sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The ensemble cast includes Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team continue their mission to prevent the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence, from destroying all of humanity.
Airplane!
Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American comedy film written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in
Air Force One
1997 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Planes
2013 animated film directed by Klay Hall
The Right Stuff
1983 film by Philip Kaufman
Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014 animated film directed by Roberts Gannaway
Flight
2012 film by Robert Zemeckis
The Edge
1997 film by Lee Tamahori
United 93
2006 film directed by Paul Greengrass
Snakes on a Plane
2006 film directed by David R. Ellis
Independence Day: Resurgence
2016 film directed by Roland Emmerich
Hot Shots!
1991 film directed by Jim Abrahams
Broken Arrow
1996 film directed by John Woo
Red Eye
2005 film directed by Wes Craven
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 film by John Moore
Airport
1970 film directed by George Seaton
Flightplan
Flightplan is a 2005 mystery psychological thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray. It stars Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt, a recently widowed American aircraft engineer living in Berlin, who flies back to the United States with her daughter and her husband's body. She loses her daughter during the flight and must struggle to find her while proving her sanity at the same time. It also features Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, Sean Bean, and Matt Bomer in his film debut.
Zabriskie Point
1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni
Non-Stop
2014 film by Jaume Collet-Serra
Victory Through Air Power
1943 US partly-animated Disney film
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004 film directed by Kerry Conran
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1928 Mickey Mouse short by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
Sayonara
Sayonara is a 1957 American romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan, and starring Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner, Martha Scott, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, Miiko Taka and Ricardo Montalbán. It tells the story of an American Air Force pilot during the Korean War who falls in love with a famous Japanese dancer. The screenplay was adapted by Paul Osborn from James A. Michener's 1954 novel.
Six Days Seven Nights
1998 film directed by Ivan Reitman
Passenger 57
1992 film directed by Kevin Hooks
The Delta Force
1986 film by Menahem Golan
Always
1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Team America: World Police
2004 film directed by Trey Parker
Leap Year
2010 film directed by Anand Tucker
American Made
2017 film directed by Doug Liman
Twelve O'Clock High
1949 film by Henry King
Air America
1990 film directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Flight of the Phoenix
2004 film by John Moore
Stealth
2005 film by Rob Cohen
Only Angels Have Wings
1939 film by Howard Hawks
The Guardian
2006 film by Andrew Davis
Saboteur
1942 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Executive Decision
1996 film directed by Stuart Baird
Pushing Tin
1999 film by Mike Newell
Rescue Dawn
2006 film by Werner Herzog
Hero
1992 film directed by Stephen Frears