Airplane Pilot Movies and TV Shows
Especially focuses on small fly-by-night air operations with propeller aircraft, like cargo aircraft and small charter air services - not about fighter pilots.
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- CreatorDonald P. BellisarioStarsStephen CollinsJeff MacKayCaitlin O'HeaneyThe adventures of a 1930's Pacific Islands bush pilot and his companions.
- StarsEd GilbertR.J. WilliamsSally StruthersBaloo the Bear from The Jungle Book (1967) is cast as a 1930s Pacific Islands bush pilot.
- CreatorDavid AngellPeter CaseyDavid LeeStarsTim DalySteven WeberCrystal BernardBrothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.
- DirectorJack ArnoldStarsLana TurnerJeff ChandlerRichard DenningHusband and wife pilots Mike Dandridge and Maggie Colby try to balance their time and priorities between work and family life.
- DirectorRoger SpottiswoodeStarsMel GibsonRobert Downey Jr.Nancy TravisA young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict.
- CreatorLee David ZlotoffStarsRichard Dean AndersonDana ElcarBruce McGillThe adventures of a secret Agent armed with almost infinite scientific resourcefulness.For the episodes with Jack Dalton, starting with "Jack of Lies"
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJohn WayneLloyd NolanWalter AbelA C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
- DirectorBrian J. TerwilligerStarsHal FishmanLily GagnierLucas GragnierAn exhilarating documentary film that celebrates the unsung hero of aviation - the local airport - by tracing the life, history, and struggles of an airport icon: Southern California's Van Nuys Airport.
- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJames StewartRichard AttenboroughPeter FinchAfter an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors are buoyed with hope by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who plans for them to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.
- DirectorJohn MooreStarsDennis QuaidMiranda OttoGiovanni RibisiSurvivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane.
- DirectorCharles JarrottStarsElliott GouldGeneviève BujoldRicky SchroderWhen a plane carrying various animals makes a forced landing on a desert island, the only chance to escape is to convert the plane into a boat.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRichard DreyfussHolly HunterBrad JohnsonThe spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
- DirectorJoe JohnstonStarsBilly CampbellJennifer ConnellyAlan ArkinA young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioCate BlanchettKate BeckinsaleA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.
- DirectorMira NairStarsHilary SwankRichard GereEwan McGregorA look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
- DirectorGeorge SeatonStarsMontgomery CliftPaul DouglasCornell BorchersExperiences of two Air Force sergeants during the 1948 Berlin Airlift.
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsTom SelleckBess ArmstrongJack WestonDuring WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsChristopher ReeveRosanna ArquetteJack WardenA 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsJames StewartMurray HamiltonPatricia SmithCharles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsJohn WayneClaire TrevorLaraine DayWhen a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.