Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "aircraft-carrier", "pilot"

1. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.

Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer

Votes: 698,234 | Gross: $718.73M

2. Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

The epic next chapter in the cinematic Monsterverse pits two of the greatest icons in motion picture history against each other--the fearsome Godzilla and the mighty Kong--with humanity caught in the balance.

Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry

Votes: 241,815 | Gross: $100.92M

3. Top Gun (1986)

PG | 109 min | Action, Drama

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer

Votes: 502,969 | Gross: $179.80M

4. Kong: Skull Island (2017)

PG-13 | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

After the Vietnam war, a team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong and must fight to escape a primal Eden.

Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly

Votes: 348,570 | Gross: $168.05M

5. 2012 (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: John Cusack, Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet

Votes: 398,025 | Gross: $166.11M

6. Pacific Rim (2013)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day

Votes: 531,132 | Gross: $101.80M

7. Pearl Harbor (2001)

PG-13 | 183 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott

Votes: 351,982 | Gross: $198.54M

8. World War Z (2013)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale

Votes: 719,880 | Gross: $202.36M

9. Midway (2019)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans

Votes: 94,520 | Gross: $56.85M

10. 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: 87,495 | Gross: $37.76M

11. 12 Strong (2018)

R | 130 min | Action, Drama, History

12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.

Director: Nicolai Fuglsig | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban

Votes: 91,906 | Gross: $45.82M

12. Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A disillusioned pilot shot down over war-torn Bosnia goes on the run from the local military and an assassin, as his commanding officer risks all to save him.

Director: John Moore | Stars: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Gabriel Macht, Charles Malik Whitfield

Votes: 112,917 | Gross: $59.07M

13. Devotion (II) (2022)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Biography, Drama

A pair of U.S. Navy fighter pilots risk their lives during the Korean War and become some of the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.

Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Thomas Sadoski

Votes: 27,971

14. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.

Director: Leonard Nimoy | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 91,517 | Gross: $109.71M

15. Stealth (2005)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.

Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx, Sam Shepard

Votes: 56,281 | Gross: $32.12M

16. Rescue Dawn (2006)

PG-13 | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, War

A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier

Votes: 110,836 | Gross: $5.49M

17. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 37,238 | Gross: $29.55M

18. Airport '77 (1977)

PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.

Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Votes: 12,329 | Gross: $30.00M

19. Flight of the Intruder (1991)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

During the air war over Vietnam, a U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder bomber pilot schemes with a hardened veteran to make an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi.

Director: John Milius | Stars: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette

Votes: 7,724 | Gross: $14.59M

20. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)

Passed | 138 min | Drama, History, War

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock

Votes: 6,462

21. Wing Commander (1999)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Blair, a fighter pilot, joins an interstellar war to fight the evil Kilrathi who are trying to destroy the universe.

Director: Chris Roberts | Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tchéky Karyo

Votes: 17,420 | Gross: $11.58M

22. By Dawn's Early Light (1990 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau

Votes: 4,099

23. The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)

Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War

Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges. The ending of this grim war drama is all tension.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 6,335

24. Airwolf (1984 TV Movie)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A scientist who created a super-helicopter has defected to Libya, taking the machine with him. A secretive government agency hires an ex-Vietnam War pilot to go to Libya, steal the chopper, and bring it back.

Director: Donald P. Bellisario | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Ernest Borgnine, Alex Cord, David Hemmings

Votes: 5,215

25. Kiss Them for Me (1957)

Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Romance

In 1944, three Navy pilots stationed in Hawaii and a P.R. officer go on a 4-day leave to San Francisco where they party with a good crowd in the executive suite of a busy hotel.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, Leif Erickson, Suzy Parker

Votes: 2,179

26. Air Force (1943)

Approved | 124 min | Action, Drama, History

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Garfield, John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 3,816

27. Black Thunder (II) (1998)

R | 85 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A top secret stealth fighter is stolen. Only Navy Test Pilot Vince Connors can recover the plane and bring it back in one piece. Battling terrorists, and flying with deadly nerve gas, he has to evade his mentor, now the enemy's top pilot.

Director: Rick Jacobson | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Richard Norton, Michael Cavanaugh, Nancy Valen

Votes: 621

28. Carrier (2008– )

Documentary

CARRIER is a character-driven immersion in the high-stakes world of a nuclear aircraft carrier, shot on the USS Nimitz during a six-month deployment to the Persian Gulf. The program follows... See full summary »

Stars: Chris Altice, Kevin McLaughlin, Randy Brock, David Fravor

Votes: 633

29. Pilot #5 (1943)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, War

In March 1942, on the island of Java, Indonesia, a Dutch major selects a pilot for a dangerous mission from the five U.S. Army airmen under his command. While waiting for word from the pilot, the others tell his life story to the major.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Franchot Tone, Marsha Hunt, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson

Votes: 380

30. The Fighting Lady (1944)

Passed | 61 min | Documentary, History, War

An in-depth look at aircraft carrier combat operations during World War II. Real combat footage. Very strong and compelling.

Directors: Edward Steichen, William Wyler | Stars: Robert Taylor, Charles Boyer, Joseph J. Clark, Dixie Kiefer

Votes: 616

31. Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (2004 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Drama

15 years after the Belkan War, the Osean Wardog squadron finds itself in the center of an unexplained war with the formerly allied nation of Yuktobania.

Director: Kazutoki Kono | Stars: Wakana Yamazaki, Hideo Ishikawa, Kenji Nojima, Unshô Ishizuka

Votes: 285

32. Flat Top (1952)

Approved | 83 min | Drama, War

During the Korean War, aboard the U.S.S. Princeton, Navy Commander Dan Collier reminisces about his first assignment on the same aircraft carrier in the war against Japan.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, John Bromfield

Votes: 542

33. Active Stealth (1999 Video)

R | 99 min | Adventure, Action, Crime

After Captain Murphy lost some of his men on his last mission to Mexico to bring back a US Senator, he has been plagued with unhappiness and bad dreams. When Murphy is given orders to go ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Daniel Baldwin, Hannes Jaenicke, Lisa Vidal, Chick Vennera

Votes: 581

34. Of Thee I Sting (1946)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

A (male?!) mosquito army prepares for the attack. We see basic training, which includes an obstacle course (slapping hands, fly swatters), target practice on stuffed dummy human forms, and ... See full summary »

Directors: Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce

Votes: 169

35. Sailor (1976– )

300 min | Documentary

A major BBC television documentary series, first shown in 1976. About the life on board the fourth HMS Ark Royal, a British aircraft carrier. It followed the ship on a five and a half month... See full summary »

Stars: Twinkle Powell, Leslie Conway

Votes: 27

36. Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, Comedy

A talented but brash stunt pilot enters the Marine Corps and becomes more disciplined.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, Frank McHugh

Votes: 407

37. 1943: The Battle of Midway (1987 Video Game)

E | Action, War

In the midst of WWII, the Navy's best fighter pilot must destroy the Japanese air and sea squadrons.

Votes: 132

38. Top Gun: The Second Mission (1990 Video Game)

Unrated | Action, Adventure

Just like in the first game, you fly an F-14 Tomcat in combat against the enemy equipped with Soviet equipment, although there is no direct reference to the Soviet Union anywhere. The only ... See full summary »

Votes: 53

39. JetFighter II: Advanced Tactical Fighter (1990 Video Game)

E | Action, War

War erupts once again along the west coast of America, although this time it is with a drug baron. The military is put to action, and the most advanced jets in the U.S. inventory are put to... See full summary »

40. Jetfighter III (1996 Video Game)

E | Action, War

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41. Days That Shook the World (2003–2005)
Episode: The Battle of Midway (2005)

60 min | Documentary, History

Following the embarrassment caused by the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the Japanese devised a climactic battle over the island of Midway intended to finish U.S. naval power in the Pacific. On ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Elliott | Stars: Terry Bowden, Noah Michael Levine, David Polinsky, Jun Suenaga

Votes: 15

42. Telephone Time (1956–1958)
Episode: Bullet Lou Kirn (1957)

30 min | Drama

Lou Kirn, a Navy football star in 1931 and a Squadron Commander during WW2, is faced with his biggest challenge in 1954 - a dreaded form of paralysis. During this personal battle he reaches out to save a paralyzed boy.

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: John Nesbitt, Alan Baxter, Harold J. Stone, Herbert Rudley

Votes: 7