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1. Dunkirk (2017)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, History
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy
Votes: 741,332 | Gross: $188.37M
2. American Made (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 208,622 | Gross: $51.34M
3. First Man (2018)
PG-13 | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
Votes: 202,491 | Gross: $44.94M
4. Sorcerer (1977)
PG | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou
Votes: 27,812 | Gross: $12.00M
5. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Director: Kerry Conran | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi
Votes: 87,519 | Gross: $37.76M
6. Capricorn One (1977)
PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston
Votes: 24,769
7. The Phantom (1996)
PG | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 35,844 | Gross: $17.30M
8. The Ice Road (2021)
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a 'big-rig' ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen lake to save the trapped miners.
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh | Stars: Liam Neeson, Marcus Thomas, Laurence Fishburne, Amber Midthunder
Votes: 47,762
9. Always (1989)
PG | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman
Votes: 32,836 | Gross: $43.86M
10. Wayne's World 2 (1993)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Music
The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend.
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken, Tia Carrere
Votes: 88,209 | Gross: $48.20M
11. The People That Time Forgot (1977)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1919, a British expedition in the Antarctica region is searching for a lost American explorer and finds a hidden prehistoric world instead.
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Patrick Wayne, Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas, Dana Gillespie
Votes: 3,521
12. Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Down-on-their-luck racers Larry and Deke steal from a supermarket manager to buy a car that will help them advance their racing chances. Their escape does not go as planned when Larry's one-night stand, Mary, tags along for the ride.
Director: John Hough | Stars: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 7,838 | Gross: $0.62M
13. Nightmare City (1980)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal
Votes: 6,735
14. The Fighter Pilot (2013)
144 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
A young woman and her brother explore the history of their grandfather, who died in WW2. They start contacting the men who flew with him, asking them about who he was.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Haruma Miura, Mao Inoue, Gaku Hamada
Votes: 2,820
15. Falling from the Sky: Flight 174 (1995 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 93 min | Drama
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: William Devane, Scott Hylands, Shelley Hack, Kevin McNulty
Votes: 1,002
16. Night Flight (1933)
Passed | 84 min | Drama
Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 944
17. We Dive at Dawn (1943)
Not Rated | 98 min | Action, Drama, War
All leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: John Mills, Louis Bradfield, Ronald Millar, Jack Watling
Votes: 1,701
18. The Karate Killers (1967)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin battle T.H.R.U.S.H. spies to seize Dr. True's secret chemical formula used in extracting gold from sea water.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Joan Crawford, Curd Jürgens
Votes: 699
19. Amazon (1990)
R | 96 min | Adventure, Drama
Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and ... See full summary »
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Kari Väänänen, Robert Davi, Rae Dawn Chong, Minna Sovio
Votes: 561
20. The Last Great Wilderness (2002)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
Two men meet while travelling north on separate missions. Charlie wants to catch up with the man who has stolen his wife, while Vicente is trying to escape a contract castration. After ... See full summary »
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Alastair Mackenzie, Jonny Phillips, Ewan Stewart, David Hayman
Votes: 516
21. Battle for the Bulge (1969)
48 min | Documentary, History, War
This WWII documentary uses current location filming and authentic historic film clips to document the Battle of the Bulge, the last big German offensive in World War II, which was launched ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Hasso von Manteuffel, Robert Hasbrouck, John Mace, David Belchem
Votes: 16
22. Thud Pilots (2018)
90 min | Documentary
An edge-of-your-seat documentary that exposes the Vietnam Air War where an elite band of brothers known as Thud Pilots fought and died receiving neither the country's support nor glory.
Director: Mark Vizcarra | Stars: Larry Poole, Jeffrey L. Puras, Robert L. Cooper, Curtis Venable
Votes: 246
23. Nuummioq (2009)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.
Directors: Torben Bech, Otto Rosing | Stars: Lars Rosing, Angunnguaq Larsen, Julie Berthelsen, Marius Olsen
Votes: 235
24. 96 heures (2014)
96 min | Thriller
After 3 years in prison Kancel is being transferred for questioning. In transit, he escapes, abducting Captain Carré of the BRB, responsible for putting him behind bars. Kancel has 96 hours to find out who betrayed him and get his revenge.
Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer | Stars: Gérard Lanvin, Niels Arestrup, Sylvie Testud, Anne Consigny
Votes: 421
25. Voi juku - mikä lauantai (1979)
81 min | Comedy
Directors: Visa Mäkinen, Matti Pulliainen | Stars: Erkki Liikanen, Pirjo Siiskonen, Riitta Käpynen, Timo Nissi
Votes: 86
26. The Motorway File (1975)
31 min | Short
Edgar Lustgarten investigates the causes of a fatal accident on a motorway, in the course of which, many aspects of road safety are revealed.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: William Abney, Peter Armitage, Robert Coleby, Edgar Lustgarten
Votes: 13
27. Lasisydän (1959)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Despite winning the Grand Prix at the Milan Triennale, a Finnish glass designer returns to Helsinki with a bad case of burnout. His psychiatrist recommends taking a few weeks off and seeing... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Jussi Jurkka, Aila Arajuuri, Toivo Mäkelä, Matti Aulos
Votes: 95
28. The Shepherd (2022 Video)
33 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A De Havilland Vampire pilot flying home from RAF Celle in northern Germany to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk on Christmas Eve 1957, suffers a complete electrical failure mid-flight. Lost in fog... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Parker
30. Turkasen tenava! (1963)
108 min | Comedy
A family man who wants to remain childless is accidentally left with the baby of a hitchhiker he met on the way home from work.
Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Eila Peitsalo, Matti Ranin, Ari-Pekka Neuvonen, Leo Jokela
Votes: 76
31.
The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode:
Till Death Do Us Part
(1983)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The A-Team is hired to find an heiress and Face marries her so she won't have to marry a corrupt businessman.
Director: Guy Magar | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz
Votes: 415
32.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Baseballs of Death
(1988)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crockett and Tubbs are investigating the murders of prostitutes which appears to be the work of a sadist. They discover that the killer is a Chilean police official. They try to arrest him ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 336
33.
What If...? (2021– )
Episode:
What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?
(2021)
TV-14 | 31 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
When Steve Rogers is seriously injured, Peggy Carter becomes the world's first super soldier.
Director: Bryan Andrews | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Hayley Atwell, Josh Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson
Votes: 20,450
34.
Masters of the Air (2024)
Episode:
Part Three
(2024)
TV-MA | 48 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The group participates in its largest mission to date - the bombing of vital aircraft manufacturing plants deep within Germany.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Barry Keoghan, Dean Ridge, Thomas Flynn, Spike White
Votes: 2,833
35.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Pacific: February 1942-July 1945
(1974)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, History, War
The island hopping strategy of Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur leads from one costly, battle after another. The Japanese fight fanatically as the war gets ever closer to home, but Americans finally use their newest weapon, the A-bomb.
Director: John Pett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Roy Voris, Frank Manson, Douglas MacArthur
Votes: 355
36.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Pincers: August 1944-March 1945
(1974)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
As the Allies debate how to prosecute the the invasion of Germany, Hitler settles the question with a massive counter attack in the Ardenne. Failure of the attack leaves German defenses of ... See full summary »
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Brian Horrocks, Kenneth Strong
Votes: 355
37.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 12
38.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Manchuria: The Forgotten Victory
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the Soviet victory over the mighty Japanese Kwangtung Army in the mountains of Manchuria, which is one of the least known of the Second World War.
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Aleksei Antonov, Henry H. Arnold, Kai-Shek Chiang
Votes: 6
39.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battles for Tunisia
(2001)
Documentary, History, War
The campaign in Tunisia in World War Two saw the battles that finally ended the brutal war in the desert. We look at the weapons used and tactics and tell the story of the battle itself.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Harold Alexander, Kenneth Anderson, Claude Auchinleck
Votes: 7
40.
Shockwave (2007–2008)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2007)
History
Persian Gulf, USS Theodore Roosevelt: An aircraft carrier crewman survives being sucked into a jet engine. South Africa, Indian Ocean: The captain and crew abandon sinking cruise ship ... See full summary »
Stars: Mike McDonald, Tim Beard, John David Bridges, Julian Butler
41.
Air Crash Investigation (2003– )
Episode:
Gimli Glider
(2008)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Relive the incredible story of a pilot forced to glide an engineless 767 to safety, from over 26,000 feet in the air.
Director: Karl Jason | Stars: Jonathan Aris, Robert Bockstael, Randy Thomas, Stephan Dubeau
Votes: 223
42.
Long Way Up (2020)
Episode:
The Andes
(2020)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Adventure, Reality-TV
Crossing back into Chile, Ewan, Charlie and the team arrives just in time to celebrate Chilean Independence day, before riding across the high Andes.
Directors: David Alexanian, Russ Malkin | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman, David Alexanian, Taylor Estevez
Votes: 208
43.
Slow Horses (2022– )
Episode:
Follies
(2022)
TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Thriller
Taverner and the Slow Horses attempt different approaches to locate the kidnappers and Hassan. Ho makes a shocking discovery about Sid.
Director: James Hawes | Stars: Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sophie Okonedo
Votes: 1,812
44.
1899 (2022)
Episode:
The Calling
(2022)
TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Maura has terrible flashbacks and makes a shocking move. A sound leads some passengers to jump overboard. Maura makes a discovery about her father.
Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau
Votes: 4,817
45.
Futurama (1999– )
Episode:
Neutopia
(2011)
TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
To avoid an imminent bankruptcy, the "Planet Express" is converted into an airline company, but on its the first flight the airliner crash-lands on a strange planet.
Director: Edmund Fong | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille
Votes: 2,192
46.
Rise of the Nazis (2019–2023)
Episode:
Stalingrad
(2022)
Documentary, History
The Nazis have lost in Moscow. Hitler and Stalin take charge of their armies - with no-one to hold them back. In Stalin, Hitler has met his match - it's now a fight to the death.
Director: Julian Jones | Stars: Richard John Evans, Richard Overy, Heike B. Görtemaker, Garry Kasparov
Votes: 70
47.
Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
Episode:
Barbarossa Unleashed
(2021)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
More than three million Axis soldiers, the largest invading force in history, storm across the Soviet Union border as if it didn't exist in June 1941.
Directors: Dominic Saville, Lyndy Saville | Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Richard John Evans, Donald Rayfield
Votes: 6
48.
Archer (2009–2023)
Episode:
Archer Vice: On the Carpet
(2014)
TV-MA | 21 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Archer avoids crash landing in a dangerous swamp only to come face-to-face with a shady arms dealer (Christian Slater).
Directors: Bryan Fordney, Adam Reed | Stars: H. Jon Benjamin, Judy Greer, Tom Kane, Amber Nash
Votes: 1,337
49.
Z Nation (2014–2018)
Episode:
Fracking Zombies
(2014)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
In New Jersey, the survivors run out of fuel and embark on a dangerous mission to replenish their supply. Meanwhile, Cassandra's past comes back to haunt her.
Director: John Hyams | Stars: Kellita Smith, DJ Qualls, Michael Welch, Keith Allan
Votes: 1,143
50.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020)
Episode:
O Ke Ali'i Wale No Ka'u Makemake
(2016)
TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In order to stop a meth epidemic on the Island, McGarrett and Danny go undercover as pilots, but when McGarrett is seriously wounded, Danny is forced to break their cover in order to save his partner's life.
Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park
Votes: 580