What is your favorite airplane film?
Whether it is a high-octane dogfight at Mach speed, a desperate mid-air hostage crisis, or a black comedy where nobody can fly the plane, these movies put aircraft at center stage. Which one is your all-time favorite?
Top Gun
The 1986 Tony Scott classic starring Tom Cruise as hotshot Navy pilot Maverick, defining a generation of aerial action cinema.
Top Gun: Maverick
The 2022 blockbuster sequel where an older Maverick trains a new generation of pilots for an impossible mission.
Airplane!
The 1980 parody masterpiece by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker that turned aviation disaster films into the ultimate comedy.
Air Force One
Harrison Ford as the U.S. President who fights back when terrorists hijack his plane in this 1997 action thriller.
Flight
Denzel Washington plays a skilled but troubled pilot who miraculously lands a failing plane in Robert Zemeckis's 2012 drama.
The Aviator
Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, exploring his obsessive quest to push aviation to its absolute limits.
Con Air
Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich star in this 1997 action thriller about convicts who hijack their own prison transport plane.
Sully
Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2016.
Snakes on a Plane
Samuel L. Jackson battles venomous snakes released on a flight in this gloriously absurd 2006 action film.
Non-Stop
Liam Neeson as an air marshal who must identify a killer threatening to eliminate passengers one by one mid-flight.
United 93
Paul Greengrass's harrowing 2006 recreation of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hijackers.
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