World War I aviation films

Wings

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1927 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutu...

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The Dawn Patrol

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1938 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass...

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The Blue Max

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1966 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

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Flyboys

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 6.5

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots.

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The Red Baron

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 6.3

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 knigh...

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Darling Lili

Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 6.1

World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs. She is also half Ge...

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Von Richthofen and Brown

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 6

Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fokker fighter planes,...

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Crimson Romance

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1934 IMDB Rating: 5.7

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air forc...

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