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Discovery Channel - Air Aces: War Heroes of the Skies (2012) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at June 19, 2024

Ambitious, spectacular, and supercharged with thrilling action, Air Aces profiles the most harrowing airborne combat missions ever, many of which were recently declassified.

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Discovery Channel - Air Aces: War Heroes of the Skies (2012) Movies

Posted by rwdfox at June 19, 2024

Ambitious, spectacular, and supercharged with thrilling action, Air Aces profiles the most harrowing airborne combat missions ever, many of which were recently declassified.

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BBC - Equator from the Air: South America (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 11, 2019

Gordon Buchanan continues his journey around the equator, witnessing the fight to preserve the Amazon rainforest. In Brazil, he joins an aerial police patrol hunting for illegal loggers, while a local tribe map their territory from the air in a bid to prevent its destruction. Crossing the Andes, Gordon sees how eyes in the sky keep tabs on Ecuador’s endangered condors and visits a reserve where new species are being discovered, high up in the canopy of a pristine patch of cloud forest.

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Discovery Channel - Hunters in the Sky: Fighter Aces of World War II (1991) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 5, 2021

What was it really like to be a fighter pilot during the Second World War?
Air combat is quick: Each choice must be decisive and executed without hesitation. Mere seconds can decide who will go down in the record books and who will go down in flames. In the high arenas of the Second World War, only a select few pilots ever shot down more than five enemy aircraft and earned the ambitious title of a "Fighter Ace". What made them a breed apart from their fellow fighter pilots? What separated the hunters from the hunted?

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It's in the Air Movies

Posted by at Feb. 26, 2021

It's in the Air (1938)
George Brown (George Formby) is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force uniform and delivers the papers when he is mistaken for a dispatch driver from HQ. He soon becomes the butt of jokes from his sergeant which ends him staying indefinitely at the air base. George soon falls in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter and when he discovers his real identity he threatens to report him. On the day of an annual inspection George attempts to escape the base and ends up in a plane, while the inspecting officer watches on, George's plane display is mesmerising and the inspecting officer insists he should be commended, in order to save their skins George manages to land the plane and is accepted as a flyer by the RAF.

Comedy

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The Way to the Stars / Johnny In The Clouds (1945) Movies

Posted by Notsaint at March 16, 2017

This is a great movie about the RAF's Bomber Command in WW II. It has a superb cast and the photography is exquisite. Although there are no aerial action scenes, wartime tension dominates every frame. Especially well handled are the rivalry and competition between the British Airmen and their American counterparts from the 8th Air Force. This is a must view for those who are interested in the Allied Air Crews who fought in the Air War over Fortress Europa during the bleak years from 1939-1944. The secret? "Keep Calm and Carry On."

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PBS - NATURE: Undercover in the Jungle (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 21, 2019

In Ecuador's Amazon basin is a special patch of jungle that is a living, breathing, green metropolis of life. It is an untouched, secluded wilderness teeming with biodiversity, only accessible by boat. Follow a team of naturalists and wildlife filmmakers on a revolutionary mission to capture the intimate behaviors of the wildlife who dwell here by installing a network of more than 50 remotely operated cameras and mini-cams, from the dark rainforest floor right up to a tangled canopy 300 feet in the air. By filming 24/7 for an entire month,the camera crew captures the lives of exotic creatures and discovers the incredible tricks that these animals use to survive in this extreme jungle.

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Love Wanders in the Night Movies

Posted by at Oct. 17, 2022

Love Wanders in the Night (1981)
Eirini and Stella are two old maids and sisters who have grown up in the provinces and now live in Athens, in an apartment that looks out onto an open-air cinema. They are almost forty, still virgins and dependent on each other. Their only relative is their cousin Stefanos, with whom they were both in love, but who has been away in Paris for years. When he comes back and visits them, the balance between the two women is upset.

Drama

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Up in the Air Movies

Posted by at Aug. 19, 2024

Up in the Air (2009)
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

Drama Romance

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Star Media - Soviet Storm: WWII in the East: Series 2 (2012) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 26, 2022

On 22nd June 1941, Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa–the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia. Four million troops, backed by 19 panzer divisions, fought their way east, confident of total victory within a just few short months. They were wrong.

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