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Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Aviators like Lt. Amanda Chasteen and Maj. Maria Marion see themselves not as women pilots, but just pilots, and, as their male colleagues admit, it's what happens in the air that matters, not the gender of the person in the cockpit.
Publisher
Make Believe TV
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"From Kitty Hawk to Cape Canaveral, a few women have found "Wings of their own". From record-breaking altitude testing, air races, package delivery services and aerobatics to sightseeing tours, commercial shifts, leisure flights, military service, helicopter support runs, and ventures into space, women have piloted all kinds of aircraft. Wings of their own looks at women pilots over the 20th century through the voices of the women themselves and features...
4) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mothers worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berline to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
6) Air America
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of Air America, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnamese countryside.
Series
Publisher
CustomFlix [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1985?]
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Bendix Trophy Race (1931-1962) during the height of aerobatic racing, made for viewing at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, featuring the stories of trophy winners, Jimmy Doolittle and Jackie Cochran.
8) Flight
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on the plane.
Publisher
Intelligent Television and Video
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
Captain Alan Dix, with SAS Flight Academy, takes you through pilot training maneuvers. Topics include: a refresher course on the A320 layout, tour of computer room, look at simulator hydraulics, rejected take off, engine failure, barrel roll, and autoland.
10) Wings
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I. Includes three featurettes.
11) Top gun
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground. Bonus features include commentary, featurette, music videos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
15) Always
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
A legendary pilot with a passion for daredevil fighting sacrifices himself to save his best friend and then help his lover move on with her life.
Publisher
St. Clair Vision
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Envied by the most powerful men and desired by the most beautiful women, Howard Hughes embodied the American dream. With age, however, he began to recede from the public limelight, and locked himself away amid rumors of mental illness. Watch the story of his life, and then watch three of the great films that he brought to the big screen.
17) Bridge of spies
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
18) Fly girls
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of World War II, the call went out: women with flight experience were needed to fly for the military. All over the country, young women postponed their weddings, put their educations on hold, and quit their jobs to respond, becoming Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs. Led by Jacqueline Cochran, America's foremost female aviator, more than 1,000 women were trained to ferry aircraft, test planes, instruct male pilots, and even tow...
19) Porco Rosso
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
A pilot becomes disillusioned after seeing his friends die for their country, so he leaves the armed forces, becomes a private bounty hunter, and lives cursed as half-human, half-pig.
20) A daring flight
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of July 25, 1909, Louis Bleriot set out on his epic flight across the English Channel, marking the first long-distance flight over water and the first air crossing of a national boundary. A Daring Flight captures the thrilling formative years of flight, when the French were mad about airplanes and tried everything to fly.