Biografia de Howard Hughes, magnat de l'aviació i cineasta que va viure la seva època daurada a Hollywood a partir de l'any 1924. Hugues, que aleshores tenia 19 anys, es va quedar orfe i va heretar el gran negoci familiar. Interessat en el món del cinema, va invertir molts diners produint pel·lícules i va tenir relacions sentimentals amb actrius famoses: Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn i Jean Harlow. Més tard es va interessar per l'aviació i, quan tenia 33 anys, va fer la volta al món en un avió dissenyat per ell mateix.
Just després d'enlairar-se de l'aeroport de LaGuardia, a Nova York, un avió de la companyia US Airways topa amb un estol d'ocells, i els dos motors de l'aparell deixen de funcionar com a conseqüència de l'impacte. Els tècnics de control de trànsit aeri aconsellen als tripulants que tornin a LaGuardia, però el comandant Sullenberger, "Sully", amb 40 anys d'experiència com a pilot, s'adona que no aconseguiran arribar-hi a temps i decideix fer un aterratge d'emergència al riu Hudson. Contra tot pronòstic, totes les persones que anaven a bord sobreviuen. Els mitjans i la població de seguida aclamen Sully com un heroi, però la companyia aèria obre una investigació interna per determinar si el comandant va prendre la decisió correcta.
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a gruesome death of unknown cause, panic erupts both in-flight and on the ground. With steadily decreasing fuel and international refusals to offer aid, the captain and crew will be forced to take unprecedented emergency measures in an attempt to save the lives of their passengers.
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
L'Amy Alden és una adolescent australiana que ha perdut la mare en un accident de trànsit i es veu obligada a traslladar-se al Canadà, on viu el seu pare, en Thomas, un escultor excèntric a qui gairebé no coneix. L'Amy no s'adapta a la seva nova vida fins que un dia troba uns ous d'oca abandonats i aconsegueix, amb esforç i inventiva, que neixin els pollets. Els problemes arriben quan els animals creixen i els haurà de guiar, a bord d'un ultralleuger, per fer la migració.
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.
The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.
Investigators reveal how Boeing’s alleged priority of profit over safety could have contributed to two catastrophic crashes within months of each other.
U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.
Amelia Earhart va ser una llegendària aviadora nord-americana que va desaparèixer el 1937 mentre sobrevolava l'Oceà Pacífic quan intentava fer la volta al món. El gran amor de Amèlia va ser el pare de l'escriptor Gore Vidal (McGregor).
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the "Tuskegee Airman" for the name of the airbase at which they were trained, these men were forced to constantly endure harassement, prejudice, and much behind the scenes politics until at last they were able to prove themselves in combat.
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new leaders and escape to England where they join other Czech exiles in the RAF. While flying a mission over England, Karel crash lands and happens upon the farmhouse of Susan, a young woman whose husband is in the Navy. Karel soon falls head over heels for Susan but, while they enjoy a brief fling, in time Susan decides she prefers the company of the older and more worldly Franta. As Franta and Karel struggle to maintain their friendship despite their romantic rivalry.
L'audaç Charles A. Lindbergh es proposa creuar l'Atlàntic sense escales, en un vol sense precedents. Des de Nova York a París, el pilot viu al seu avió trenta-sis hores de solitud que suposen una gesta històrica.
A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason. Airliner crashes near Los Angeles due to unusual string of coincidences. Stewardess, who is sole survivor, joins airline executives in discovering the causes of the crash.
Alexey Titarenko is very talented pilot and brave leader of "Singing group". He also must look after some new cadets and fight together with them against German Luftwaffe planes. Close to Alexey always are his friends, they are all from different parts of the country, but they all became real brothers.
Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the unscrupulous owners can make a killing in the international gold market.
FAA system analyzer named Neil McCabe is the only person who seems to have this different hunch towards a group of international terrorists after a horrific plane incident occured. He thinks that an evil genius computer hacker sets out and manipulate the computer electronical system which linked to several airplanes to cause destruction and tragedy. In order to prevent the mishap, McCabe and his teammate, Rudy, finds out about the machine used by the criminals which leads them to a psychotic thrilling fight between the terrorist.
A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.