Category
page 1Films about shot-down aviators
Bridge of Spies
2015 film directed by Steven Spielberg
Pearl Harbor
2001 film by Michael Bay
Wings
1927 film by William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast
Black Hawk Down
2001 film by Ridley Scott
The Great Escape
1963 American film by John Sturges
La Grande Vadrouille
1966 film by Gérard Oury
La Grande Illusion
1937 film by Jean Renoir
Francis Gary Powers
American pilot shot down flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union (1929-1977)
Behind Enemy Lines
2001 film by John Moore
Battle of Britain
1969 British film by Guy Hamilton
Rescue Dawn
2006 film by Werner Herzog
Enemy Mine
1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen
Von Ryan's Express
1965 World War II American film directed by Mark Robson
The Bridges at Toko-Ri
1954 film by Mark Robson
The Red Baron
2008 film by Nikolai Müllerschön
Hell in the Pacific
1968 film by John Boorman
Hanover Street
1979 film by Peter Hyams
Bat*21
Bat*21 is a 1988 American war drama film directed by Peter Markle, and adapted from the 1980 book by William C. Anderson, novelist and retired United States Air Force colonel. Set during the Vietnam War, the film is a dramatization based upon the rescue of a U.S. air navigator shot down behind enemy lines in Vietnam. The film stars Gene Hackman and Danny Glover with Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant, Clayton Rohner, Erich Anderson and Joe Dorsey in supporting roles.
The Purple Plain
1954 film by Robert Parrish
Sky
2021 film directed by Igor Kopylov
Bon Voyage
1944 film by Alfred Hitchcock
Reach for the Sky
1956 British biographical film about aviator Douglas Bader directed by Lewis Gilbert
Fighter
2024 Indian film
Flight of the Intruder
1991 American film directed by John Milius
Torpedo Bombers
1983 film directed by Semyon Aranovich
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
1942 film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Every Time We Say Goodbye
1986 film by Moshé Mizrahi
Reunion in France
1942 feature film directed by Jules Dassin
Desperate Journey
1942 film by Raoul Walsh
Joan of Paris
1942 film by Robert Stevenson
Dresden
2006 film by Roland Suso Richter
The Day and the Hour
1963 French-Italian film directed by René Clément
The Hunters
1958 film directed by Dick Powell
The One That Got Away
1957 British film directed by Roy Ward Baker
The Hanoi Hilton
1987 Vietnam War film directed by Lionel Chetwynd
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog
Kaatru Veliyidai
2017 Tamil film directed by Mani Ratnam
The Purple Heart
1944 film by Lewis Milestone
Emergency Landing
1952 Norwegian film directed by Arne Skouen
Till We Meet Again
1944 film by Frank Borzage
Young Eagles
1930 romantic drama film directed by William A. Wellman
High Barbaree
1947 film by Jack Conway
The Hunt for Eagle One
2006 film by Brian Clyde
Hindustan Ki Kasam
1973 film directed by Chetan Anand
Saint-Ex
Saint-Ex is a 1996 British television film, which was released as an episode of the BBC Two TV series Bookmark, after its premiere at the London Film Festival. The story documents the life of French author-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the form of a "tone poem". The film was directed by Anand Tucker and stars Bruno Ganz, Miranda Richardson and Janet McTeer. The screenplay was by Frank Cottrell Boyce, while the writer's sons, Aidan and Joseph, portrayed the Saint-Exupéry brothers, François and Antoine, as children.
Sky Force
2025 Indian film
Resistance
2003 film by Todd Komarnicki
Limbo
1972 film by Mark Robson
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious
1965 film by Gottfried Reinhardt