Air Force Movies

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939).  Irene persuades Vernon to give up his vaudeville clowning to cultivate his obvious dancing abilities. Then the first World War intervenes and … Continue Reading →

Sky Devils (1932). Two jokers fool their sergeant (William “Stage” Boyd) and wind up heroes in World War I France. Wilkie and Mitchell, trying to desert their draft into the army, stow … Continue Reading →

Lilac Time (1928). Colleen Moore stars as the French gamin Jeannine Bertholot who is a good luck charm to a seven-man platoon of the British Air Force that uses the lilac … Continue Reading →

Lafayette Escadrille (1958). The brave Americans who flew for France before the U.S. entered World War I are saluted in Lafayette Escadrille, a rousing and flavorful adventure filled with flyboy camaraderie. … Continue Reading →

Hell’s Angels (1930) was produced and directed by Billionaire Howard Hughes, the most expensive film ever made in its time. Hughes spared no expense in capturing an exciting dogfight between … Continue Reading →

The Eagle and the Hawk (1933) is a powerful anti-war drama in which Cary Grant and Fredric March play rival pilots with opposing codes of honor during World War I. … Continue Reading →

The Dawn Patrol (1938) stars Errol Flynn (“The Adventures of Robin Hood”), David Niven (“The Pink Panther”) and Nigel Rathbone (“Romeo and Juliet”) in this gripping WWI drama about a … Continue Reading →

The Dawn Patrol (1930) has Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Richard Barthelmess in director Howard Hawks’ classic antiwar drama of a the man who knows he is ordering his pilots to … Continue Reading →

Darling Lili (1970). Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted WW I musical along with Rock Hudson. Lili Smith (Andrews) is a … Continue Reading →

Crimson Romance (1934) has two German-Americans join the German air force in World War I. They are at odds with the sadistic Commandant (Von Stroheim) and one (Ben Lyon) marries … Continue Reading →