Films like The Purple Plain
An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is deter...
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Hell's Angels
Film · 1930 · also drama and warAs the Great War breaks out in Europe, English brothers Roy and Monte enlist in the Royal Flying Corps to fight for king and country, while their Oxford College friend Ka...
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Aces High
Film · 1976 · also drama and warThe first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the ave...
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Dunkirk
Film · 2017 · also drama and warThe story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches an...
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Objective, Burma!
Film · 1945 · also adventure and dramaA group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but...
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Memphis Belle
Film · 1990 · also drama and warThe "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber, piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they...
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri
Film · 1954 · also drama and warA U.S. Navy pilot and his squad are assigned to bomb a group of heavily defended bridges deep behind enemy lines during the Korean War.
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Von Richthofen and Brown
Film · 1971 · also drama and warSpend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circ...
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Red Tails
Film · 2012 · also drama and warThe story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
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The Edge
Film · 1997 · also adventure and dramaThe plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charle...
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Pearl Harbor
Film · 2001 · also drama and warThe lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beauti...
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