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?

1

Top Gun

The 1986 Tony Scott classic starring Tom Cruise as hotshot Navy pilot Maverick, defining a generation of aerial action cinema.

2

Top Gun: Maverick

The 2022 blockbuster sequel where an older Maverick trains a new generation of pilots for an impossible mission.

3

Airplane!

The 1980 parody masterpiece by Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker that turned aviation disaster films into the ultimate comedy.

4

Air Force One

Harrison Ford as the U.S. President who fights back when terrorists hijack his plane in this 1997 action thriller.

5

Flight

Denzel Washington plays a skilled but troubled pilot who miraculously lands a failing plane in Robert Zemeckis's 2012 drama.

6

The Aviator

Martin Scorsese's 2004 biopic of Howard Hughes, exploring his obsessive quest to push aviation to its absolute limits.

7

Con Air

Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich star in this 1997 action thriller about convicts who hijack their own prison transport plane.

8

Sully

Tom Hanks as Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2016.

9

Snakes on a Plane

Samuel L. Jackson battles venomous snakes released on a flight in this gloriously absurd 2006 action film.

10

Non-Stop

Liam Neeson as an air marshal who must identify a killer threatening to eliminate passengers one by one mid-flight.

11

United 93

Paul Greengrass's harrowing 2006 recreation of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who fought back against hijackers.