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Community Curated: Best Films about Air Travel

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." This Sunday, July 24, would have been aviator Amelia Earhart's 125th birthday. Amelia’s legacy inspired us to ponder . . .

What are the best films about air travel?

Block or Report
  • Around the World in 80 Days
  • Fearless
  • Airplane!
  • Planes, Trains and Automobiles
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • Snakes on a Plane
  • Castaway
  • Con Air
  • Twilight Zone: The Movie
  • Up in the Air
  • Sully
  • The Terminal
  • Final Destination
  • 7500
  • Blood Red Sky
  • Porco Rosso
  • Passenger 57
  • The Out-of-Towners
  • Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • Horizon Line
  • Wings
  • The High and the Mighty
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
  • Flight
  • United 93
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • The Flight of the Phoenix
  • The Memphis Belle
  • French Kiss
  • The Right Stuff
  • The Spirit of St. Louis
  • The Tree of Life
  • Airport '77
  • Air Force One
  • Miracle Landing
  • I'm So Excited!
  • Airport 1975
  • Island in the Sky
  • Five Came Back
  • Back from Eternity
  • Test Pilot
  • The Aviator
  • Only Angels Have Wings
  • Zero Hour!
  • The Accidental Tourist
  • Avatar
  • A Matter of Life and Death
  • Up
  • Men of the Fighting Lady
  • Airport
  • The Concorde... Airport '79
  • Home Alone