Royal air force movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant royal air force movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, period drama, captivating, suspense, serious and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with royal air force, raf, world war two, aviation, pilot, war, military, world war, soldier and warplane plots mostly in Drama, War and Action genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as royal air force: Lancaster Skies (2019), Dunkirk (2017), Chicken Run (2000), The Shadow in My Eye (2021), The Forgotten Battle (2020), First Light (2010), Battle Over Britain (2023), Battle of Britain (1969), Piece of Cake (1988), 633 Squadron (1964).
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
Style:
sincere, psychological, touching, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, aviation, raf, secret, camaraderie, killed in action, teamwork, trust, world war, friendship between men, british army, bombing ...
Time:
year 1943, 1940s
Place:
berlin germany, england, germany
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799K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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224K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the american rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky ...
Style:
claymation, funny, period piece, satirical, witty ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
stop motion, bird, escape, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, prison, escape attempt, chicken, chicken farm, anthropomorphism, rat, freedom ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1959, year 2000, post world war two ...
Place:
united kingdom, england, northern england, europe, yorkshire
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Denmark, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, intense, bleak, period drama
Plot:
world war two, nazi, air raid, nazism, gestapo, royal air force, eye, bombing, nordic, military, murder, killing ...
Time:
year 1945, 1940s
Place:
copenhagen
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the Germans, an English glider pilot and a girl from ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, powerful
Plot:
world war two, combat, war, british soldier, british military, killed in action, military, royal air force, dam, british army, shell shock, soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944
Place:
netherlands, germany, holland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In May 1940, feeling the RAF needs every man to fight to Luftwaffe, Geoffrey 'Geoff'/'Boy' Wellum joins at 18, becoming the youngest ever Spitfire pilot. After an intense training, he soon bonds with the flying men of his ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling
Plot:
world war two, aviation, aerial combat, fighter pilot, world war, luftwaffe, royal air force, autobiography, pilot, military aviation, wartime life, military officer ...
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Genre: War
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young pilot, fresh out of training, is called to join a Flight while they wait for the call to scramble. Throughout a single day, he witnesses the skies of southern England filled with deadly dog fights, and after every exhausting battle the men ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, tense, tension, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, pilot, royal air force, aerial combat, sacrifice, air force, military, aviation, air strike, soldier, military service, war ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: France, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
During World War II, two French civilians and a downed English Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must ...
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious, realistic, funny ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, war, french resistance, soldier, rescue, world war, nazi occupied france, danger, royal air force, house painter, allies ...
Time:
1940s, year 1966, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, France, Spain
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Style:
epic, cult classic, realistic, exciting, spectacular ...
Plot:
world war two, aviation, luftwaffe, aerial combat, air battle, fighter pilot, raf, british history, fighter plane, battles, world war, nazi ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1940, 1930s
Place:
london, poland, england, english channel, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story:
The lives and loves of the men of RAF Hornet Squadron who are transferred to France at the outbreak of World Wat II in September 1939. For the most part the men are competent fliers but there is little action in the first several months. The men ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
aerial combats, world war two, battles, aviation, luftwaffe, royal air force, warplane, wartime, world war, partner, friends, heroes ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, fishing, war, aviation, crash landing, behind enemy lines, death of brother, nazi, resistance fighter, airplane crash, warplane, battles ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place:
europe, scotland
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story of Manfred von Richtofen, the german air ace during the World War I and his struggle with the enemy aces and some jealous german officers.
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
world war one, aerial combat, fighter pilot, fighter plane, raf, soldier, aviation, great war, danger, military, military life, heroic mission ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s, year 1971
Place:
germany, europe, france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story:
This fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son, who was shot down over Germany in 1941. Getting no help from the underground, she sets up her own rescue mission.
Style:
period piece, emotional, tension, suspense
Plot:
world war two, female protagonist, family bonds, determination, resistance movement, espionage, resilience, courage, survival, covert operation, spy thriller, luftwaffe ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose affair with a handsome serviceman he met in Piccadilly – during the time homosexuality was a crime – turned Queen's evidence against him in one of ...
Style:
sexy, tense, psychological, suspenseful, romantic ...
Plot:
gay relationship, gay interest, male homosexuality, lgbt, gay, gay sex, gay couple, gay lead character, lovers, homosexuality, prison, gay slur ...
Time:
year 1952, 1950s, year 1955, year 1954, 50s
Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Very British Sex Scandal tells the story of Peter Wildeblood, a royal correspondent for the Daily Mail newspaper. He is a closet homosexual and like many gay men at that time, lives in secret as homosexuality is against the law. One evening he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay interest, sex scandal, homosexuality, gay, closeted homosexual, scandal, lgbt, homosexual history, homosexual, gay slur, love affair, journalism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1955, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
love affair, infidelity, unhappy marriage, forbidden love, husband wife relationship, judge, unfulfilled love, suicide attempt, depression, family problems, love and romance, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, post world war two, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial arts training in Hong Kong ...
Style:
period piece, tense, historical drama, dark, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bare chested male, world war two, martial arts, hand to hand combat, survival, captivity, pow, violence, brutality, military, resilience, extreme violence ...
Time:
1940s, year 1950, year 1942
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures ...
Style:
captivating, tense, thrilling, suspenseful, f word
Plot:
creature, bunker, monster, survival horror, medical experiment, creature feature, soldier, desert, alien creature, bio weapon, fight, body horror ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
afghanistan
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
Style:
spy comedy, spy action, eurospy
Plot:
cold war, espionage, secret agent, spying, british spy, spy spoof, james bond spoof, secret service agent, robot, undercover agent, undercover, politics ...
Place:
french riviera, england, france, nice france, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, thought provoking
Plot:
world war two, bedouin, desert, friendship, state affairs, military, muslim, italian soldier, international relations, friends, society, soldier ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
africa, libya
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land girls" of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser ...
Style:
period piece, sentimental, touching, realistic, retro ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
world war two, countryside, friendship, love, farm, working class, wartime life, war, woman, wine, women, young woman ...
Time:
1940s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
england, united kingdom, english channel, europe, bristol ...
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Genre: War, Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
world war two, aviation, friendship, air battle, culture clash, aerial combat, love triangle, wartime life, battle zone, prison, luftwaffe, world war ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two, year 2001, year 1950 ...
Place:
london, england, czech republic, europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three escape attempts to his name, each successive attempt he makes to break free somehow seems to go worse ...
Style:
spoof, parody, crying
Plot:
world war two, pow, ss, world war, military prison, prisoner, royal air force, new zealander, albert einstein, impersonation, escape plan, talking parrot ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A British military transport plane makes an emergency landing on Sado Island. The residents on the island take care of the crew members until the plane can take off once again despite knowing that Britishers are their enemies.
Style:
intercultural, historical drama, period drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
post war, compassion, reconciliation, empathy, friendship, community, heartwarming, hospitality, second chance, aviation, healing, language barrier ...
Time:
year 1946
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, War
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story:
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a delightful wartime comedy about two very different bandsmen (Eddie and Eric) and their misadventures with gangsters, romance, and black-marketing in Blitz-time London.
Plot:
world war two, theater, pop music, deserter, private detective, air raid, musician, mother, royal air force, gangster, nightclub, train ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
scotland, london
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This movie is realistic and even crude, and maybe that is the reason, why it's so impressive. Instead of romantic (nearly melodramatic) scenes, incorporated to the Sverak's "Tmavomodry svet" (Dark Blue World) it offers stories ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
world war two, aviation, luftwaffe, aeroplane, royal air force, airplane crash, aircraft, czech history, friend, airplane, funeral, friendship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
england, czechoslovakia, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
British drama about a young member of the RAF who finds that his new girlfriend is pregnant.
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, independent film, period drama
Plot:
raf, military, soldier, young lovers, falklands war, young romance, separation, barmaid, anxiety, uncertainty, small town, intimacy ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy, Romania, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Set in 1973 during the coup d'etat in Chile, Max recalls his encounters in London during Worl War II with French aviator Antoine, a childhood hero he first met in his native country one morning in 1932 and who initiated him to the wonders of ...
Style:
reflective, poignant, melancholic, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memory, aviation, childhood, world war two, nostalgia, reminiscence, pilot, regret, friendship, coming of age, flashback, loss ...
Time:
1940s, 70s, 1930s
Place:
chile, london, france
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, raf, aviation, world war, military, flying, warplane, fighter plane, french resistance, aerial combat, space, luftwaffe ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe.
Style:
cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, road movie, controversial ...
Plot:
breast feeding, surrealism, philosophy, satire, chess, social satire, traveling salesman, coffee, sex show, psychology, police corruption, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place:
england, scotland, europe, east end london, london ...
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