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The best air war movies

Some of the most thrilling movies ever made happen thousands of feet up. Top Gun: Maverick is pure adrenaline, Dunkirk puts you in the cockpit over the Channel, and Midway recreates one of the great air and sea battles of the Pacific.

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36 movies

  1. Top Gun: Maverick poster Top Gun: Maverick2022
  2. Top Gun poster Top Gun1986
  3. Pearl Harbor poster Pearl Harbor2001
  4. Battle of Britain poster Battle of Britain1969
  5. The Dam Busters poster The Dam Busters1955
  6. Twelve O'Clock High poster Twelve O'Clock High1949
  7. Memphis Belle poster Memphis Belle1990
  8. Dunkirk poster Dunkirk2017
  9. Midway poster Midway2019
  10. Midway poster Midway1976
  11. Tora! Tora! Tora! poster Tora! Tora! Tora!1970
  12. The Blue Max poster The Blue Max1966
  13. Wings poster Wings1927
  14. Devotion poster Devotion2022
  15. Red Tails poster Red Tails2012
  16. The Tuskegee Airmen poster The Tuskegee Airmen1995
  17. Catch-22 poster Catch-221970
  18. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb poster Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
  19. Fail Safe poster Fail Safe1964
  20. Eye in the Sky poster Eye in the Sky2015
  21. Hot Shots! poster Hot Shots!1991
  22. Hell's Angels poster Hell's Angels1930
  23. The Dawn Patrol poster The Dawn Patrol1938
  24. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo poster Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo1944
  25. Air Force poster Air Force1943
  26. The First of the Few poster The First of the Few1942
  27. The Bridges at Toko-Ri poster The Bridges at Toko-Ri1954
  28. Command Decision poster Command Decision1948
  29. Reach for the Sky poster Reach for the Sky1956
  30. 633 Squadron poster 633 Squadron1964
  31. Flyboys poster Flyboys2006
  32. Firefox poster Firefox1982
  33. The Final Countdown poster The Final Countdown1980
  34. Bat★21 poster Bat★211988
  35. Good Kill poster Good Kill2015
  36. Battle Over Britain poster Battle Over Britain2023

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