Top 5 aviation movies

[Velocity173]

We all have our favorites. What are your top five?
Mine:

1. The Right Stuff
2. Top Gun
3. The Memphis Belle
4. The Battle of Britain
5. The Final Countdown

 

[Jim Logajan]

Always

I discovered an interesting unexpected (to me) connection between "Always" (1989) and the movie it is a remake of, "A Guy Named Joe" (1943):

The song "Smoke gets in your eyes" that the characters Pete and Dorinda consider "theirs" in the 1989 remake was sung by Irene Dunne (who played Dorinda in the 1943 move) in the 1935 film "Roberta".

Irene Dunne's 1935 version:

Oh, and somebody uploaded the "girl clothes!" scene from "A Guy Named Joe" with Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne:

 

[Jim Logajan]

Looks like Wikipedia has a web page with a list of aviation-related films; it currently lists 674 such movies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_films

 

[Jim Logajan]

Looks like Wikipedia has a web page with a list of aviation-related films; it currently lists 674 such movies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aviation_films

That list is hardly a complete one. I had to add an "Aviation films" category entry to the Wikipedia page for the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I don't have a top list of anything, but that movie does come readily to mind when I think of aviation films that left a pleasant memory.