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Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
4) Bright eyes
Series
Shirley Temple volume 6
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A little girl is forced to live with her mother's employers after she is killed in an accident. An aviator who wants to adopt the little girl gets involved in a custody battle with the employer's uncle.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1930s, covers three days in the lives of a trio of flying-circus performers, headlined by former WWI figher pilot hero Roger Shumann and his beautiful blonde wife, Laverne; romantic complications arise when newspaper reporter Burke Devlin falls in love with Laverne while covering their daredevil aerial show.
6) Wings
Language
English
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World War I Collection Spotlight - Classics
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - The Fight on Water and in the Air
World War I Collection Spotlight - Films
World War I Collection Spotlight - The Fight on Water and in the Air
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Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman (Hollywood's first "It-girl," Clara Bow), become fighter pilots in World War I. Stunningly realistic flying sequences, all filmed without faking or processing shots, highlight this story of two airmen pals and an ambulance nurse they both love, first winner of an **Academy Award** for Best Picture. Winner of Best Picture and Best Effects, Engineering Effects at the **Academy...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
8) The aviator
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous beauties. Nevertheless, he died alone, sealed into a room he...
9) Sully
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain, Chesley Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
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