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Publisher
Lionsgate
Formats
Description
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the...
2) Fly girls
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 56 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran and the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) is told by some of the participants and illustrated with archival film and home movies.
Publisher
Nick Spark Productions
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (65 min.) : sound, colorwith black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club profiles one of the most colorful and accomplished female pilots of the early 20th century. Florence "Pancho" Barnes became the first female stunt pilot in Hollywood in 1929 and shattered Amelia Earhart's air speed record in 1930. In the 1940's and 50's, Pancho entertained the best test pilots in the world -- men with the right stuff -- at her "Happy Bottom Riding Club" guest ranch near...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As world-famous aviator Amelia Earhart closed in on her record-setting attempt to fly around the world in July 1937, she disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean - vanishing without a trace. Did she run out of fuel and crash into the sea? Or could she have survived?
5) Amelia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate...
6) The ascent
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko₂s final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.
7) Amelia
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Several years after learning to fly, Amelia Earhart, with the help of her husband and business partner, attempts a solo flight around the world.
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