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1. 9 (I) (2009)
PG-13 | 79 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A rag doll that awakens in a postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.
Director: Shane Acker | Stars: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 147,773 | Gross: $31.74M
2. Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 21,869 | Gross: $19.65M
3. Wind (I) (1992)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Romance and adventure happen during the America's Cup series of yachting races.
Director: Carroll Ballard | Stars: Matthew Modine, Jennifer Grey, Cliff Robertson, Jack Thompson
Votes: 3,105 | Gross: $5.52M
4. The Stronghold (2017)
111 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The Stronghold is a Ukrainian adventure/fantasy film based on the same-name book. A present-day schoolboy Vit'ko goes a thousand years into past.
Director: Yuriy Kovalyov | Stars: Danylo Kamenskyi, Eva Koshova, Roman Lutskyi, Oleh Voloschenko
Votes: 3,031
5. Koktebel (2003)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's ... See full summary »
Directors: Boris Khlebnikov, Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Gleb Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Evgeniy Sytyy, Vera Sandrykina
Votes: 1,861
6. Approaching the Speed of Sound (1957)
27 min | Documentary, Short
This is the first in a series of three educational films entitled "High Speed Flight". This film produced in 1956 looks at the aerodynamics of flight at speeds approaching the speed of ... See full synopsis »
Director: Peter De Normanville
7. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 107 (1918)
Documentary, Short
Subjects include: "Our Southern Mountaineers", and The Rudiments of Flying (1918).
Director: P.D. Hugon
9. The Rudiments of Flying (1918)
Animation, Short
Animated technical drawings explain the science of aviation and illustrate the mechanisms at work in an aeroplane.
Director: Jacob Leventhal
10. Paramount-Bray Pictographs, No. 126 (1918)
Documentary, Short
Subjects may include: William L. Finley's Animal Studies, No. 1 (baby animals), "Schematography", "With the Deep Sea Anglers", and "The First Flyer".
Director: P.D. Hugon
11. Streamlined (1940)
9 min | Documentary, Short
An industrial film touting the benefits of the modern, streamlined locomotives and passenger cars at the dawn of the 1940s.
Star: André Baruch
12. The First Flyer (1918)
Animation, Short
Animated drawings illustrate the evolution of prehistoric flying creatures into the birds of the present day, and compare the mechanics of bird flight to the designs of man-made flying machines.
Directors: John Randolph Bray, Louis M. Glackens
13. Ticket Through the Sound Barrier (1966)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Current aerodynamic research in the United States supporting the development of a commercial supersonic transport airplane.
Director: Russell Morash | Stars: John Townsend Fitch, Mark W. Kelly
14.
Drunk History (2013–2019)
Episode:
Behind Enemy Lines
(2019)
TV-MA | 21 min | Comedy, History
Marina Raskova forms an all-women Air Force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II; smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.
Director: Derek Waters | Stars: Derek Waters, Jessica McKenna, Jon Gabrus, Emily Deschanel
Votes: 66
15.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Missing in MiG Alley
(2007)
TV-PG | Documentary
Nova reviews the air war between Russian Mig 15s and American F86 Sabres over Korea. With the Russians anxious for information about American aerial combat tactics and the F86, many people ... See full summary »
Director: Emily Roe | Stars: Buzz Aldrin, Mike Cope, Michael Dearmond, Tom Foley
Votes: 27
16.
Weapon Masters (2008– )
Episode:
Chakram
(2008)
TV-PG | 44 min | Reality-TV
A chakram is a circular ring with a sharpened outer edge used in India as a throwing weapon. Although Chad sees little hope of improving the design he finds it is possible to improve the ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Adams Trueheart | Star: Chad Houseknecht
17.
Building the Ultimate (2020– )
Episode:
Super Bridge
(2020)
Documentary
We unlock the engineering secrets of Montreal's New Champlain Bridge to reveal how it's built to survive 125 years of extreme temperature changes and crushing ice.
Director: Andre Holzinger | Stars: Borja Bailles, Peter King, Alexis Lauzon, Guy Mailhot
18.
Be Smart (2012– )
Episode:
Sand Dunes Shouldn't Exist (Here's Why They Do)
(2021)
16 min | Family
Sand can be comprised of just about anything from frozen methane to shrapnel and of course quartz. Controlled by the speed of the wind and the size of the particles, wind blown sand ... See full summary »
Star: Joe Hanson
19.
The Proof is Out There (2021– )
Episode:
Land UFO and Superhuman Strength
(2022)
TV-PG | 20 min | Documentary
A UFO is spotted over one of the world's holiest sites. And could a mysterious floating "spaceman" in a famous photograph be an elaborate, decades-long hoax? Plus, "superhumans" who can ... See full summary »
Stars: Tony Harris, M.J. Banias, Erin McCarthy, Tim McMillan
Votes: 15
20.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
Gentlemen, Lift Your Skirts...
(1981)
60 min | Documentary
The 'Formula One' racing car is not really a car at all, it's an aerodynamic projectile on wheels. The most obvious feature of these 'WING' cars is a device called a 'skirt', that seals ... See full summary »
Stars: Martin Jarvis, Frank Williams, Colin Chapman, Jim Clark
Votes: 6
21.
MythBusters (2003–2018)
Episode:
Reverse Engineering
(2010)
TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, Mystery, Reality-TV
Jamie and Adam test whether a '70s sport car is as aerodynamic backward as forward, while Grant, Tory and Kari take a surfboard scene from Lethal Weapon 2 to task.
Director: Lauren Gray Williams | Stars: Jamie Hyneman, Adam Savage, Grant Imahara, Tory Belleci
Votes: 109
22.
Richard Hammond's Brain Reaction (2022– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2022)
60 min | Comedy, Game-Show
The first edition sees Victoria partnered by London Hughes and Johnny paired with Henning Wehn. They play Domino Vs. Buzz Wire, taster and feeder, Fridge Vs. Armchair and marvel at the shiny balls of cricketer Ryan Sidebottom.
Director: Julian Smith | Stars: Victoria Coren Mitchell, Richard Hammond, London Hughes, Ria Lina
23.
Inventions That Shook the World (2011– )
Episode:
1940s
TV-G | 45 min | History
War is the driving force behind much of the innovation in the 1940s. In a desperate attempt to secure aerial supremacy, the British win the race to develop the jet engine. Under the Reich, ... See full summary »
Stars: Ben Bain, Arcade Riley, Ryan Whittal
24.
Mustard (2017– )
Episode:
A Plane Without Wings: The Story of the C.450 Coléoptère
(2020)
8 min | Documentary
In the 1950s some French and American aerospace companies flirted with tail sitting vertical take off and landing airplanes. They presented some unexpected aerodynamic challenges.
25.
Animagraffs (2018– )
Episode:
How a Formula 1 Race Car Works
(2021)
23 min | Documentary, Animation
A detailed look at the highly optimized inner working of a Formula 1 Race car with explanations of the component parts using three dimension diagrams.
Star: Jacob O'Neal
26.
Nova (1974– )
Episode:
Building the Eiffel Tower
(2024)
TV-PG | Documentary
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris's iconic landmark. Completed in just over two years for the 1889 World's Fair, the iron tower smashed the record for the tallest structure on Earth. How did the engineers do it?
Director: Pascal Cuissot | Stars: Florence Allorent, Mercer Boffey, Michel Carmona, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Votes: 45
27.
Cleo Abram (2022– )
Episode:
Formula 1, explained for rookies
(2022)
13 min | Action
Putting the incredible excitement aside, Cleo perceives Formula One Racing as an incredibly expensive experiment to push automobile technologies to their limit of perfection.
Star: Cleo Constantine Abram
28.
Brain Games (2011–2020)
Episode:
Patterns
(2014)
TV-G | 22 min | Documentary, Comedy, Game-Show
Have you ever noticed that life is a series of routines, done in the same order, day after day? Whether you realize it or not, your daily routine is really a pattern. Learn how, when ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Nigro | Stars: Jason Silva, Coren Apicella, Andrei Jikh
Votes: 32
29.
InterCity 125: The Train That Saved Britain's Railways (2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2018)
45 min | Documentary, History
Celebrity champions join the designer of the InterCity 125, Sir Kenneth Grange, to discuss how this iconic high-speed train transformed Britain's rail network at a time when it was in the doldrums.
Director: Richard Max | Star: Chris Tarrant