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Aerospace: Hollywood Classroom

 

The following are movies that can be used in whole or as part of an Aerospace Education Program. At the time of posting, most were available for purchase from one or more of the on-line bookstores in the formats indicated.  Many are still available for rent at the larger video stores.  If you have suggestions for other videos that can be used to teach Air & Space topics, please let me know. bjackson@plata.com

 

Title

Staring

Time

Rating

Year

2010: The Year We Make Contact

Roy Scheider, John Lithgow 116 min

PG

1984

633 Squadron Cliff Robertson, George Chakris 95 min NR 1964
Apollo 13 Tom Hanks, Ed Harris 140 min PG 1999
Arrow (The) Dan Aykroyd, Sarah Botsford 180 min NR 2001
Aviator (The) Chris Reeves, Rose Arquette  97 min PG 1985
Bat 21 Gene Hackman, Danny Glover 105 min R 1988
Battle of Britain Chris Plummer, Susannah York 132 min G 1969
Blue Max (The) George Peppard, Ursula Andres 155 min PG 1966
Blue Planet Toni Myers (narrator) 42 min NR 1990
Dawn Patrol (The) Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone 108 min NR 1938
Dish (The) Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington 101 min PG-13 2000
Flight of the Intruder Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe 110 min PG-13 1990
Flight of the Phoenix (The) James Stewart, Richard Attenborough 147 min NR 1965
Flying Tigers John Wayne, John Carroll 101 min NR 1942
Hanover Street Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down 109 min PG 1979
High Road to China Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong 105 min PG 1983
Hindenburg (The) George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, Burgess Meredith 126 min PG 1975
Lafayette Escadrille Tab Hunter, Clint Eastwood 93 min NR 1958
Life Beyond Earth Timothy Ferris (narrator) 120 min NR 1999
Magic of Flight (The) Tom Selleck (narrator) 40 min NR 1996
Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Those) Terry Thomas, Sarah Miles, Red Skelton 132 min G 1965
Memphis Belle Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz 107 min PG-13 1990
Midway Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda 132 min PG 1976
October Sky Jake Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern 108 min PG 1999
Pancho Barns Valerie Bertinelli 149 min NR 1988
Pearl Harbor Ben Affleck, Alec Baldwin 130 min R 2001
Piece of Cake Tom Burlinson, George Anton series NR 1988
Right Stuff (The) Ed Harris, Charles Frank 193 min PG 1983
Rocket Men (The) Ed Harris (narrator) 60 min NR 1994
Spirit of St. Louis (The) James Stewart, Patricia Smith 137 min PG 1957
Strategic Air Command James Stewart, June Allyson 114 min NR 1955
Test Pilot Clark Gable, Myrna Loy 118 min NR 1938
Top Gun Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis 109 min PG 1986
Tora Tora Tora E.G. Marshall, Jason Robards 170 min G 1970
Tuskegee Airmen (The) Laurence Fishburne 106 min NR 1995
Twelve O'Clock High Henry King, Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe 132 min NR 1949
Ultimate Space Experience (The) NASA Film 48 min NR 1998
Von Richtofen & Brown Roger Corman, John P Law 98 min PG-13 1971
Waldo Pepper (The Great) Robert Redford, Bo Svenson 108 min PG 1978
Woman in the Moon Fritz Lang 156 min NR 1929



For more movies check out these sites.

Professor Susan Nicosia's Aviation Movies Filmography
and Sletten Airplane Movies
and AEROFILES: Aviation In Motion Pictures and Television