Over 250 aviation films!?

[Jim Logajan]

While reminiscing on aviation themed movies (thanks to the thread started
by Jay Honeck's film-night post), I came across this article published in
the March 2006 issue of Flying Magazine, which attempts to list the best
(and worse) aviation movies:

"The Envelope, Please." by By Tom Benenson:
http://www.flyingmag.com/article.asp?section_id=11&article_id=637&print_page=y

More interesting to me was his link to the list of over 250 (or 350)
aviation themed movies compiled by Professor Susan Nicosia of Daniel
Webster College:

http://faculty.dwc.edu/Nicosia/apcm_list_of_aviation_movies.htm

Nice list - though I wouldn't classify some of the films as aviation-
themed. And I count about 268 entries - not sure where Tom Benenson got a
count over 350. But it's a great memory jogger - even though I've seen
only a tiny fraction of the films listed. Scanning down the list, these
are the ones that I like enough to recommend to others who I think
might like good aviation-themed movies:

"Airplane!"
"Always"
"Apollo 13"
"Best Years of Our Lives"
"The Dam Busters"
"Dark Star"
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
"The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965 version)
"No Highway in the Sky"
"The Right Stuff"
"The Rocketeer"
"The Spirit of St. Louis"
"Spitfire"
"Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"
"Twelve O'clock High"
"2001: A Space Odyssey"

Not on that list, but one I'd recommend:
"Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow"

-> I don't see how these are considered aviation-themed movies. But they
were on the list and I'd recommend them.

[Sylvain]

Jim Logajan wrote:
> Not on that list, but one I'd recommend:

I may have missed it, but has anyone mentioned
'Hell's Angels' yet? some of the best flying sequences
ever, and without any CGI cheap tricks...

--Sylvain

[Jim Logajan]

Jim Logajan > wrote:
> "Spitfire"

To avoid confusion, this was titled "The First of the Few" elsewhere and
"Spitfire" in the U.S.

[Montblack]

("Jim Logajan" wrote)
[snips]
> "The Envelope, Please." by By Tom Benenson:
> http://www.flyingmag.com/article.asp?section_id=11&article_id=637&print_page=y
>
> More interesting to me was his link to the list of over 250 (or 350)
> aviation themed movies compiled by Professor Susan Nicosia of Daniel
> Webster College:
>
> http://faculty.dwc.edu/Nicosia/apcm_list_of_aviation_movies.htm
>
> "Best Years of Our Lives"

> I don't see how these are considered aviation-themed movies. But they
> were on the list and I'd recommend them.


Dont they fly home, over their hometown, in the nose of a B-25 - commenting
on what they see?


Montblack

[Don Tuite]

Anybody old enough to have seen "Hers to Hold" with Deanna Durbin and
Joseph Cotten? (1943) No flying (except for the mass flyover at the
end, as Durbin belts out "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There"), but
it does feature a bomber plant with lunch-break pickup orchestra
capable of vamping a full arrangement of "Begin the Beguine" at the
drop of a hat.

And has anybody mentioned ":Captains in the Clouds" with Jimmy Cagney,
or " A Yank in the RAF" with Tyrone Power?

Don

[AJ]

I mentined in a earlier post (missed by everyone) that if you go to the
Internet Movie Data Base (www.imdb.com) and type "aviation" in the
search bar, every film on record that has anything to do with aviation
-- no matter how much a stretch it is -- gets listed. Some are
spot-on, others are just wierd.

AJ