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Greatest
Aviation Movie
Help us select the Greatest
Aviation Movie of All Time! This list represents the top 10 movies suggested by EAA
members during January and February. The movie receiving the
most votes will be shown to an audience of thousands on the big outdoor
screen at the Ford-Eclipse Fly-In Theater, during the week of EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh 2007. Voting is open until May 2, 2007.
Twelve
O'Clock High (1949)
Starring: Gary Merrill, Robert Arthur, Gregory Peck
Drama involving a general's
concern for his men's morale while heading up the operations of a
bombing squadron from a base in Chelveston, England, during the early
part of WWII.
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The
High and the Mighty (1954)
Starring: John Wayne, Claire Trevor
When an airplane en route from
Hawaii to California loses an engine just past the point of no return,
pilots Sullivan and Dan Roman call on all their experience and ingenuity
to keep it aloft. Meanwhile, the passengers are desperately trying to
illuminate and heal the crippled corners of their own lives.
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The
Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Starring: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton
Filmic version of the events
leading up to and after Charles Lindbergh's historic trans-Atlantic
flight.
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The
Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough
When their plane crashes in the
Sahara desert, the survivors - some businessmen and some British
military officers - must find a way to survive the sun, the lack of
water, and marauding Arabs. Somehow, they manage to repair the plane,
using one engine, and take the risk that it will get them out of there.
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Those
Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965)
Starring: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles
In 1910, when a British
newspaper offers a cash prize for a flying competition, some budding
early aviation pioneers introduce some zany contraptions which can
actually fly.
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The
Blue Max (1966)
Starring: George Peppard, James Mason
World War I drama involving a
lower-class German aviator who comes into conflict with an aristocratic
member of his squadron.
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Battle
of Britain (1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Robert Shaw
England defends itself against
an aerial onslaught during the summer of 1940.
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The
Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
Starring: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson
Waldo
Pepper, a former World War I pilot who exaggerates his accomplishments
in battle, teams up with an air
show entrepreneur to barnstorm all
over the Midwest in search of the glory that he never had.
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Top
Gun (1986)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis
A young recruit aspires to
become the top fighter pilot in the prestigious naval training school he
attends.
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Memphis
Belle (1990)
Starring: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz
True story of an American crew
on the B-17 bomber "Memphis Belle" on a hazardous World War II
mission.
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