Film Festival: Aviation The Spirit of St. Louis, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jimmy Stewart, gives us a chance to learn more about Lindbergh’s heroic flight. Charles Lindbergh is one of the world’s most famous aviation pioneers. We studied about his daring non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in school, but we didn’t learn…
aviation films
Lisa’s Home Bijou: The Flying Deuces
Film Festival: Aviation In The Flying Deuces (1939) Laurel and Hardy are unable to resist the lure of the desert, and airborne hilarity is the result. For romance and adventure, nothing quite equals the image of the French Foreign Legion during its heyday in 1920s – 1930s Morocco. During this time, the airplane emerged as…
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Wings (1927) – first Best Picture
Film Festival: Aviation Wings takes us back to those compelling days during World War I, the first American war in which airplanes and fliers were critically important. The Fokker, the Spad, the Sopwith Camel — all became part of the vocabulary of war. Women played a role in this war too, going to the fronts,…
Lisa’s Home Bijou: Twelve O’Clock High
Film Festival: Aviation Twelve O’Clock High (1949) is a story of a group of airborne warriors from World War II. Ever since Orville and Wilbur Wright got us off the ground, Americans have been fascinated with the daring young women and men in their flying machines. In times of war, aviators fought gallantly. “We’re in a…