Movies and TvShows featuring "downed-aircraft" theme.

Little Dieter Needs to Fly is a documentary film that tells the true story of Dieter Dengler, a German-American pilot who was shot down and captured during the Vietnam War. Dieter endures torture, starvation, and imprisonment in a Vietcong prison camp, but his determination and will to survive ultimately lead him to escape and make a treacherous journey through the jungle to safety.

Wendell Corey and Forrest Tucker star as a pair of World War II Army Air Corps officers. In between their battles over the affections of a beautiful nurse, Corey and Tucker prepare to fly a bombing mission in the South Pacific. Before boarding their B29 Superfortress, Tucker appears to be chickening out, but he's steadfastly at his cockpit post at takeoff time.

Submarine Command is set during World War II and follows the story of a submarine captain who is recalled to active duty and faces guilt and trauma while commanding his crew in combat.

The true story of the exploits of the RAF's (Royal Air Force) foreign legion battling the German Luftwaffe (Nazi Germany's Air Force) during the early months of 1941 during WWII before America officially entered the war at the end of the year when Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan and Hitler declared war on the United States. The United States then drafted all of their airmen and fighter pilot aces into the United States Air Force for their own combat missions against the Luftwaffe

Guy joins an ambitious engineering project to recover a crashed WW2 Lancaster Bomber – and the remains of its missing crew members – from the depths of the Dutch lake where it’s lain for 80 years.

Track the stories of the pilots of Vietnam's Operation Rolling Thunder and their race to survive their 100-mission goal.

In this United States Air Force dramatized training film, downed airmen evade capture.