Best Pilot movies of 1960s

Actors : Barry Sullivan, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

During the Cold War, Air Force Colonel Jim Caldwell shapes up his Strategic Air Command B-52 wing to pass a nuclear war readiness test.

Actors : Alan Bates, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Felix Aylmer,
Directors : Carol Reed,

Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. But when the ...

Actors : Ivan Palúch, Mija Aleksic, Eva Ras, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Aleksandar Petrovic,

A bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Actors : Nick Adams, Robert Walker Jr., Kirk Douglas, Pancho Magalona,
Directors : George Seaton,

During an evacuation in the waning days of the Korean War, three American soldiers retrieve an enemy airman and take him prisoner aboard the civilian ship returning them to their lines. ...

Actors : Roger Moore, Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Errol John,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

While the Nazi regime subjugates European Nations, in the Belgian Congo, Doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans.

Actors : Dana Andrews, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Rhonda Fleming, John Kerr,
Directors : Joseph Pevney,

Disaster movie about a Navy jet and a commercial airliner heading for a mid air collision.

Actors : Christopher George, J.D. Cannon, Laraine Stephens, Gary Marshal,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

A U.S. Air Force colonel convinces the Allies during World War II that a daylight bombing raid of Germany will bring a quick end to the war.

Actors : Bernard Lee, Peter Cushing, Elizabeth Seal, Michael Craig,
Directors : Charles Frend,

In Britain, at the dawn of jet-powered commercial aviation, an aircraft manufacturer tries to shift the blame from mechanical failure to pilot error when its newest jet airliner has a series of accidents.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Lex Barker, Wolfgang Lukschy, Michael Medwin,
Directors : Peter Bezencenet,

The crew of an airplane forced to spend 24 hours in Beirut get in trouble with a smuggling gang.

Actors : Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Yvette Mimieux, Max von Sydow, Gilbert Roland,
Directors : Serge Bourguignon,

Bounty hunters capture a wanted fugitive, but on the return trip begin to fight among themselves as to who should get the bigger share of the reward.

Actors : Deborah Walley, Michael Cole, Kassie McMahon, Johnny Desmond,
Directors : Arch Oboler,

A couple encounter mysterious atmospheric effects in an airplane and find themselves in a town where people behave oddly. They eventually escape.

Actors : Floretta Zana, Andreas Barkoulis, Nikos Kourkoulos, Mairi Hronopoulou,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

A former pilot Agelos Mourouzis, has thrown the drink and gambling. Someday down as chairman of a committee to investigate the causes of an airline tragedy, in which only one girl was saved...

Actors : Natalya Kuzmina, Nina Drobysheva, Vitaliy Konyaev, Evgeniy Urbanskiy,
Directors : Grigoriy Chukhray,

During the 1950s Sasha Lvova reminisces about the WW2 years when she fell in love with Soviet fighter pilot Aleksei Astakhov.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Masako Nakamura, Rentarô Mikuni, Yôko Mihara,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Kevin McCarthy, Rod Taylor, Harry Guardino,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.

Actors : Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Shûe Matsubayashi,

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air ...

Actors : Birgit Nordin, Runar Martholm, Olle Johansson, Ulla Edin,
Directors : Per Gunvall,

Two pilots must fly together in spite of the strong dislike of each other. At a training mission the aircraft wrecks over open water and they have to save themselves by parachute.

Actors : Christian Doermer, June Ritchie, Robert Urquhart, William Sylvester,
Directors : Frederic Goode,

An alcoholic, his wife, a down and out American pilot and a young German form a prospecting team to search for uranium in Africa and find themselves plagued by sinister accidents.

Actors : Göksel Arsoy, Nilüfer Aydan, Ahmet Tarik Tekçe, Leyla Sayar,
Directors : Halit Refig,

Watchmen of the Dawn is about the lives of pilots in the Turkish air force based in the mid-Anatolian town Eskisehir. The lives of these pilots are full of danger. Göksel (literally means ...

Actors : Nadia Lutfi, Omar Sharif, Kamal Al-Shennawi,
Directors : Kamal El Sheikh,

Mona is in a love triangle with Adel (Omar Sharif), an airplane pilot who she loves, and Rushdi (Kamal Al-Shennawi)... See full synopsis »