Top 6: Plane Movies

For Episode 24, our Top 6 list is about the best movies that take place on an airplane, or are about airplanes, or at least have a memorable scene involving airplanes. Like trains, in our Top 6 Train Movies list, the confined, moving, and airborne setting of an airplane can be an exciting place to set a story.

What are your own favorite plane movies?

As always, we recommend listening to the episode before reading further.

Stephen

1. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
2. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
3. Red Eye (2005)
4. Pushing Tin (1999)
5. Con Air (1997)
6. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

Sam

1. United 93 (2006)
2. Airplane! (1980)
3. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
4. The High and the Mighty (1954)
5. No Highway In the Sky (1951)
6. The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)