List of sports films
Aviation sport
Table:
Title

Year

Genre

Notes

Going Wild

1930

Comedy

Pretending to be a pilot, Joe E. Brown enters a $25,000 air race.

Flying Devils

1933

Romance

Ralph Bellamy and a crew of air daredevils perform dangerous stunts.

The King's Cup

1933

Drama

A girl helps a pilot regain his nerve before entering Cup endurance race.

Women in the Wind

1939

Drama

Aviatrix Kay Francis enters a derby from California to Cleveland.

The Sound Barrier

1952

Drama

Story of brave test pilots, directed by David Lean.

Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines

1965

Comedy

A light-hearted tale of a London-to-Paris air race in 1910.

The Great Waldo Pepper

1975

Drama

Depicts 1920s barnstorming and its consequences. Robert Redford stars as the title character.

Bride Flight

2008

Drama

Story of 12,000-mile 1953 race from England to New Zealand.

Thunder Over Reno

2008

Drama

Planes

2013

Animation

Crop duster competes in a national championship race.

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Going Wild is a 1930 Warner Brothers Pre-Code comedy film , based on the 1910 play The Aviator by James Montgomery , and directed by William A. Seiter . The film stars a bevy of musical stars in addition to the three comic stars , Joe E. Brown , Frank McHugh and Johnny Arthur . The flying sequences are the highlight of the film . A print is held in the Library of Congress collection .
Joseph Evans Brown ( July 28 , 1891 - July 6 , 1973 ) was an American actor and comedian , remembered for his amiable screen persona , comic timing , and enormous elastic-mouth smile . He was one of the most popular American comedians in the 1930s and 1940s , with films like A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( 1935 ) , Earthworm Tractors ( 1936 ) , and Alibi Ike ( 1935 ) . In his later career Brown starred in Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ) , as Osgood Fielding III , in which he utters the film 's famous punchline , Well , nobody 's perfect .
Flying Devils ( a.k.a . The Flying Circus or Flying Circus ) is a 1933 American Pre-Code action film dealing with aviation . The film was directed by former Hollywood agent Russell Birdwell and photographed by film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca . The screenplay was written by Byron Morgan and Louis Stevens , based on an original story by Stevens . In an unusual move , Bruce Cabot was the star , with perennial good guy Ralph Bellamy playing the villain in a love triangle involving Arline Judge and Eric Linden . Although considered a B feature , audiences enjoyed the aerial scenes , which helped elevate the feature to a minor box-office hit .
Ralph Rexford Bellamy ( June 17 , 1904 - November 29 , 1991 ) was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage , film , and television . During his career , he played leading roles as well as supporting roles , garnering acclaim and awards , including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth ( 1937 ) .
The King 's Cup is a 1933 British drama film directed by Alan Cobham , Donald Macardle , Herbert Wilcox and Robert Cullen and starring Chili Bouchier , Harry Milton and William Kendall . The film is named after the Kings Cup Air Race , established by King George V in 1922 as an endurance race across Britain , to encourage development in engine design and the sport of aviation . Stars Chili Bouchier and Harry Milton were married at the time the film was made .
Women in the Wind is a 1939 film directed by John Farrow and starring Kay Francis , William Gargan and Victor Jory . The plot concerns women pilots competing in the so-called Powder Puff Derby , an annual transcontinental air race solely for women . [ Note 1 ]
Katherine Edwina Kay Francis ( née Gibbs , January 13 , 1905 - August 26 , 1968 ) was an American stage and film actress . After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s , she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936 , when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio and the highest-paid American film actress .
The Sound Barrier ( known in the United States as Breaking Through the Sound Barrier and Breaking the Sound Barrier ) is a 1952 British aviation film directed by David Lean . It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier . It was David Lean 's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd , but it was his first for Alexander Korda 's London Films , following the break-up of Cineguild . The Sound Barrier stars Ralph Richardson , Ann Todd , and Nigel Patrick .
Sir David Lean CBE ( 25 March 1908 - 16 April 1991 ) was an English film director , producer , screenwriter and editor . Widely considered as one of the most influential directors of all time , Lean was mostly famous for his large-scale epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai ( 1957 ) , Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ) , Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ) and A Passage to India ( 1984 ) . He also directed adaptations of Charles Dickens novels Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , and the romantic drama Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) . Originally a film editor in the early 1930s , Lean made his directorial debut with 1942 's In Which We Serve , which was the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward . Beginning with Summertime in 1955 , Lean began to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios ; in 1970 , however , the critical failure of his film Ryan 's Daughter led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking , during which he planned a number of film projects which never came to fruition . In 1984 he had a career revival with A Passage to India , adapted from E. M. Forster 's novel ; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct . Lean 's affinity for pictorialism and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors such as Steven Spielberg , Stanley Kubrick , Martin Scorsese , and Ridley Scott . Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound Directors ' Top Directors poll in 2002 . Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director , which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia , he has seven films in the British Film Institute 's Top 100 British Films ( with three of them being in the top five ) and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990 .
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines ; Or , How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes is a 1965 British period comedy film featuring an international ensemble cast including Stuart Whitman , Sarah Miles , Robert Morley , Terry-Thomas , James Fox , Red Skelton , Benny Hill , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Gert Fröbe and Alberto Sordi . The film , revolving around the craze of early aviation , was directed and co-written by Ken Annakin , with a musical score by Ron Goodwin . Based on a screenplay entitled Flying Crazy , the fictional account is set in 1910 , when Lord Rawnsley , an English press magnate , offers £10,000 ( equivalent to £1,030,000 in 2019 ) to the winner of the Daily Post air race from London to Paris , to prove that Britain is number one in the air .
The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 American drama film directed , produced , and co-written by George Roy Hill . Set during 1926-1931 , the film stars Robert Redford as a disaffected World War I veteran pilot who missed the opportunity to fly in combat , and examines his sense of postwar dislocation in 1920s America . The cast includes Margot Kidder , Bo Svenson , Edward Herrmann and Susan Sarandon . The Great Waldo Pepper depicts barnstorming during the 1920s and the accidents that led to aviation regulations by the Air Commerce Act .
Barnstorming was a form of entertainment in which stunt pilots performed tricks - either individually or in groups called flying circuses . Devised to impress people with the skill of pilots and the sturdiness of planes , it became popular in the United States during the Roaring Twenties . Barnstormers were pilots who flew throughout the country selling airplane rides and performing stunts ; Charles Lindbergh first began flying in this capacity . Barnstorming was the first major form of civil aviation in the history of aviation . It was also one of the most popular forms of entertainment during the Roaring Twenties .
Charles Robert Redford Jr. ( born August 18 , 1936 ) is an American retired actor , director , producer , and businessman . He is the founder of the Sundance Film Festival . Redford began acting on television in the late 1950s , including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962 . He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont ( 1962 ) . His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley 's character in Neil Simon 's Barefoot in the Park ( 1963 ) . Redford made his film debut in War Hunt ( 1962 ) . His role in Inside Daisy Clover ( 1965 ) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star . He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 ) , which was a huge success and made him a major star . He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson ( 1972 ) , and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career , the blockbuster crime caper The Sting , a re-union with Paul Newman , for which he was nominated for an Academy Award ; that same year , he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were . The popular and acclaimed All the President 's Men ( 1976 ) was a landmark film for Redford . In the 1980s , Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People ( 1980 ) , which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade , winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford . He continued acting and starred in Brubaker ( 1980 ) , as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa ( 1985 ) , which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture .
Bride Flight is a 2008 film about three women and one man from the Netherlands , who all start new lives in New Zealand . It starts with the victory of the KLM flight in the 1953 London to Christchurch air race . It was directed by Ben Sombogaart and stars Rutger Hauer , Elise Schaap , Anna Drijver , Karina Smulders and Waldemar Torenstra . The Dutch singer Ilse DeLange wrote and sang the title song for the movie : Miracle .
Planes is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated sports comedy film produced by Disneytoon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures . It is a spin-off of Pixar 's Cars franchise . Despite not being produced by Pixar , the film was co-written and executive produced by Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios ' then-chief creative officer John Lasseter , who directed the first two Cars films . The film stars the voices of Dane Cook , Stacy Keach , Priyanka Chopra in her Hollywood debut , Brad Garrett , Teri Hatcher , Danny Mann , Julia Louis-Dreyfus , Roger Craig Smith , John Cleese , Carlos Alazraqui , Val Kilmer , and Anthony Edwards . Like many of Disneytoon 's films , it was initially set to be released as a direct-to-video film , but was instead theatrically released on August 9 , 2013 in the Disney Digital 3D and RealD 3D formats . The film grossed $ 239.3 million worldwide on a $ 50 million budget , despite receiving negative reviews from critics . A sequel , titled Planes : Fire & Rescue , was theatrically released on July 18 , 2014 .