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1. Masters of the Air (2024)

TV-MA | 56 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

During World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, ten men inside an aluminum bomber known as a "Flying Fortress" battle antiaircraft fire and unrelenting flocks of German fighters.

Stars: Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, Austin Butler, Darragh Cowley

Votes: 41,687

2. The Thing (1982)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur

Votes: 466,279 | Gross: $13.78M

3. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Approved | 170 min | Drama, Romance, War

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright

Votes: 70,504 | Gross: $23.65M

4. The Misfits (1961)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 23,399 | Gross: $8.94M

5. Catch-22 (2019)

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Limited series adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller novel. Follows Captain John Yossarian and airmen in World War II.

Stars: Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, Daniel David Stewart, Rafi Gavron

Votes: 20,408

6. Mudbound (2017)

R | 134 min | Drama, War

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Director: Dee Rees | Stars: Jason Mitchell, Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Mary J. Blige

Votes: 54,361

7. Catch-22 (1970)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, War

A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.

Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel

Votes: 26,489 | Gross: $24.91M

8. Memphis Belle (1990)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, War

In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in the UK prepares for its 25th and final bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.

Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney

Votes: 30,512 | Gross: $27.44M

9. The Last Front (2024)

98 min | Action, Drama, History

Amidst World War I's chaos, a grieving father turns hero, leading villagers to safety while evading a relentless enemy driven by vengeance.

Director: Julien Hayet-Kerknawi | Stars: Sasha Luss, Iain Glen, Joe Anderson, Julian Kostov

Votes: 159

10. Twelve O'Clock High (1949)

Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, War

A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell

Votes: 15,791

11. 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: 7,714 | Gross: $14.59M

12. 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: 6,455

13. The North Star (1943)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan

Votes: 1,789

14. Against the Sun (2014)

PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, War

A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.

Director: Brian Peter Falk | Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, Jake Abel, Nadia Parra

Votes: 6,471

15. Map of the Human Heart (1992)

R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting in 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal where he meets Albertine. They meet again when Avik joins World War II in the UK.

Director: Vincent Ward | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Patrick Bergin, Robert Joamie

Votes: 3,430 | Gross: $2.81M

16. 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: 3,815

17. The Haunted Airman (2006 TV Movie)

R | 68 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A wounded RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair, is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.

Director: Chris Durlacher | Stars: Julian Sands, Rachael Stirling, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Ainsleigh

Votes: 2,130

18. Above and Beyond (1952)

Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War

Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.

Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating

Votes: 1,341

19. Dear Ruth (1947)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance

A family is befuddled when a World War II serviceman shows up to meet and marry his pen pal sweetheart. Everyone's in the dark about the romance by mail. Then they discover Ruth's younger sister was the culprit.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold

Votes: 714

20. Untamed Women (1952)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

During World War II, an American bomber pilot is rescued after drifting at sea aboard a raft.

Director: W. Merle Connell | Stars: Mikel Conrad, Doris Merrick, Richard Monahan, Mark Lowell

Votes: 282

21. Target for Today (1944)

Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, History, War

Documentary about one bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning of the mission thru its final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.

Director: William Keighley

Votes: 84

22. Bombardier (1943)

Passed | 99 min | Drama, War

Major "Chick" Davis is convinced that high-level bombing will win the next war. He convinces the powers-that-be to set up a bombardier school. He efficiently sets about training the USAAF's first generation of high-level bombardiers.

Directors: Richard Wallace, Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert

Votes: 897

23. The House I Live In (1945)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama, Music

Frank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Freddie Chapman, Vincent Graeff, Teddy Infuhr

Votes: 720

24. The Wild Blue Yonder (1951)

Approved | 98 min | Drama, War

In 1943, Capt. Harold Calvert is sent to Kansas to learn to fly the newest American bomber, the B-29 Superfortress. One of the instructors is Major Tom West, a cousin of the captain. Being ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris

Votes: 137

25. Hell's Horizon (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Interaction among men of a bombing squadron during the Korean War.

Director: Tom Gries | Stars: John Ireland, Marla English, Bill Williams, Hugh Beaumont

Votes: 137

26. The Bombardier (2003 Video)

X | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War

"Ted" (Breck Stewart) is in therapy because he keeps having awful nightmares of atomic bombs. With the help of his psychatrist, he's transported back to a past life, when he was a ... See full summary »

Director: Jett Blakk | Stars: Jason Ridge, Breck Stewart, Parker Williams, Nick Capra

Votes: 25

27. Pacific Blackout (1941)

Passed | 76 min | Mystery

While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new range finder for ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Martha O'Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Eva Gabor

Votes: 77

28. The Bamboo Blonde (1946)

Passed | 67 min | Music, Romance, War

A beautiful blonde singer who has a one-time fling with an engaged pilot, is confused by his B-29 bomber crew to be his real fiancée, and her image ends up being painted on the nose of their aircraft, for good luck, as the "Bamboo Blonde".

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Russell Wade, Iris Adrian

Votes: 446

29. A Diary for Timothy (1945)

40 min | Documentary, Short

This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration ... See full summary »

Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen

Votes: 751

30. Winning Your Wings (1942)

Approved | 18 min | Short, History, War

Inspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces.

Directors: Owen Crump, John Huston | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Ames, Leah Baird, Don DeFore

Votes: 383

31. King of the Mounties (1942)

Approved | 196 min | Action, Adventure, Western

The chapter-crunched version of this 196 minutes, 12-episode serial from Republic finds Canada being bombed mercilessly by a mysterious-enemy plane (shaped like a boomerang) called the ... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: Allan Lane, Gilbert Emery, Russell Hicks, Peggy Drake

Votes: 55

32. B-17: The Flying Fortress (1987 Video)

30 min | Short

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Stars: Edward Mulhare, Theodore S. Drew, Bud Kingsbury, Tom Landry

Votes: 5

33. The Negotiator (1995 TV Movie)

49 min | Documentary

This candid documentary opens the door on the riskiest labour negotiations in the history of the Canadian Auto Workers (now UNIFOR), Canada's largest private sector union. For veteran ... See full summary »

Director: Barry Greenwald | Star: Buzz Hargrove

Votes: 27

34. Climax! (1954–1958)
Episode: The Volcano Seat (1958)

Unrated | Drama

The crew of an Air Force air tanker plane must deal with a member of the RAF assigned as captain for training. On their first long-range mission the crew has to deal with a fuel leak that threatens to blow the plane up

Director: David Swift | Stars: Michael Rennie, Albert Salmi, Patricia Cutts, Joe Di Reda

35. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Bombing Nazi Dams (2003)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War

While working to aid Britain's military efforts Wallis toyed with a problem the British military had largely considered unsolvable -- how to destroy the Nazis' most important hydroelectric dams.

Director: Ian Duncan | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Barnes Wallis, Sidney Alford, Norman Boorer

Votes: 22

36. Masters of the Air (2024)
Episode: Part One (2024)

TV-MA | 62 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Led by Majors Cleven and Egan, the 100th Bomb Group arrives in England and joins the 8th Air Force's campaign against Nazi Germany.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Anthony Boyle, David Shields

Votes: 3,333

37. Wendover Productions (2015– )
Episode: Boeing's China Problem (2019)

13 min | Documentary

Omitting the United States with is the bulk of Boeing's business, Boeing's China business is a big as the rest of the worlds combined. And Boeing has a an airplane, the 7373 max, that is ... See full summary »

Star: Sam Denby

38. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Prisoners of War, Part One - The Barbed Wire Front (1998)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Examines the treatment of prisoners of war early in the 20th century. From capture to interrogation and internment, the fate of thousands of WWI prisoners was determined by their captors off the battlefield.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Dwight Messimer, Robert C. Doyle, Lew Carlson

Votes: 10

39. Long Haul by Simple Flying (2020– )
Episode: The Battle of the Big Planes: Why Airbus & Boeing Won the Race (2020)

13 min | Documentary, News

Here are the stories of the competitors for the large passenger aircraft market and where they are today (2020) along with some new wannabees.

Star: Matthew Dalton

40. Dark Skies (2020– )
Episode: The Bizarre American Aircraft that Terrified the Luftwaffe (2022)

12 min | Documentary, History

Lockheed's P-38 Lighning looks odd even today. But it was one of the best fighters of World War Two and despised by the Luftwaffe though primarily fielded in the Pacific due its long range.