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- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWallace BeeryTom DrakeJames GleasonNed Trumpet, the chief pilot of a Navy blimp, is given to weaving accounts of the fighting prowess of his non-existent son. His friendship with widow Maude Weaver and her son Jess in effect sets him up with a real family.
- DirectorHoward HughesEdmund GouldingJames WhaleStarsBen LyonJames HallJean HarlowBrothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsKay JohnsonReginald DennyLillian RothAngela and Bob Brooks are an upper-class couple. Unfortunately, Bob is an unfaithful husband, but Angela has a plan to win back her husband's affections.
- DirectorGeorge W. HillStarsClark GableWallace BeeryConrad NagelRival fighter-pilots train in the art of dive bombing while teasing each other about their bravery and manliness. They wind up stranded and must work together for a common goal.
- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsRed ButtonsFabianBarbara EdenIn 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.
- DirectorMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay CurrieA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
- DirectorWilliam WitneyStarsVincent PriceCharles BronsonHenry HullIn 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsDavid HartmanDonald SindenJacques MarinIn 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsJack HoltFay WrayRalph GravesJack Bradon is tasked to reach the South Pole with a dirigible.
- DirectorPablo DottaStarsRicardo EspalterLaura SchneiderMarcelo BuquetA French woman arrives in Montevideo, to meet poet Juan Carlos Onetti and investigate the story of the city. She is intrigued by the photograph of the day when president Bordaz was killed and a zeppelin flew above the city at the turn of the century. She is helped by a photographer and both fall into a police intrigue.
- A film remarkable for its fine quality and unique interest, depicting a sensational trip on the French dirigible, the "Adjutant Vincenot." Several views of the ship are given, but the principal section of the film comprises views of Compiegne and the Chateau de Pierrefonds, taken from the vessel itself.
- The picture depicts the ascension, the flight and the return to the starting place.
- StarsIvy BaldwinA. Roy KnabenshueA. Leo StevensAeroplanes have occupied the attention of the motion cameras almost to the exclusion of dirigible balloons, but these enter the field in this release and a series of views really remarkable will be shown. A Vitagraph operator attended the recent meet of the Aero Club of St. Louis, when the balloon races were started, and there caught Ivy Baldwin, Roy Knabenshue, Robinson and Leo Stevens in their dirigibles. Photographs were made of the men and machines, the starts, the flights and the landings. The latter are the first pictures recorded by any motion picture of an aviation descent. The balloons are seen high in the air. Gradually they come down to earth and are received by a corps of United States Infantrymen stationed at the Jefferson barracks near St. Louis. The Army authorities detailed these men in pursuance of the Army policy of making the men familiar with the handling of balloons in war times. It is a marked departure in aviation that the pilots are now able to land their balloons at an agreed upon spot, and these pictures should attract widespread attention because of that fact. An additional feature of interest is the first motion photograph of two dirigibles in flight at the same time sufficiently close together to be caught by the camera in one field. The photography is unusually good and the Vitagraph makes a most important contribution to the picture history of aviation.
- CreatorJames BragadoStarsAnthony DanielsJulie WilhelmGary LobsteinAn award winning steampunk adventure series that follows an airship crew as they transport a shady lawman and a dangerous cthulhu cultist, featuring narration by Anthony Daniels and music by Vernian Process.
- StarsWalter Cronkite
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsGeorge C. ScottAnne BancroftWilliam AthertonA chronicle of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
- StarsHannes JaenickeMaximilian SimonischekLauren Lee SmithAbout the supposed conspiracy that led to the catastrophic deadly crash of the Hindeburg zeppelin in 1937.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWerner HerzogGraham DorringtonDieter PlageEngineers attempt daring journey above Guyanese rainforest canopy with airship prototype. Adventure fraught with risks, as previous expedition ended tragically. This is a unique story of exploring uncharted jungle from the air.
- DirectorTyler Graham PaveyStarsLeigh ParkerSean BurgosNaomi Glick
- DirectorGeorges MélièsStarsGeorges MélièsAn inventor dreams that his newly designed airship takes flight.
- DirectorEdwin S. PorterStarsJ. Stuart BlacktonA comic picture that defies description. It depicts the Twentieth Century up-to-date tramp flying over the chimney tops of New York City in the latest improved flying machine. Weary Willie has the indispensible tin can hanging from his waist and he waves his hands to his friends as he flies along. He passes over the top of the Equitable Life building and other New York sky scrapers. He flies over the East River and clears the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, and appears to be making his way toward Staten Island. When he is about in the centre of the river, his flying machine explodes, and like the unfortunate McGinty, down goes Weary William. This picture is most mystifying and humorous.
- DirectorDave FleischerKo-Ko the clown and his glee club lead the audience in an early follow-the-bouncing-ball sing-along.
- StarsChris Barrie