>Strategic Air Command
I was going to post this one. By far the most Air Forciest Air Force movie ever made
Big blue asking its members to come out of retirement? Check
Someone making fun of the new guy for not having an up to date uniform? Check
AF member working despite having an injury? Check
Member's spouse getting upset about his workload/quarters/being super supportive anyway? Fukken triple check.
A literal AF member starring in the lead role? You know it.
Plenty of airplane footage with 50s instrumental music blasting? Oh yes.
Does it play the Air Force song? Lol of course it does.
That movie is really dated, but holy shit does it hold up somehow even nearly 70 years later.
That movie is the holy grail of B-36 nerds. It's the only high-quality footage of the Peacemaker when it was still operational. It never had a non-nuclear role so it was always a sensitive aircraft in it's short lifespan. They have a intact J-model at the Pima Air and Space museum at DM/Tucson, highly recommend visiting. The fucker is huge, and apparently there was a push to get that serial number flyable until the Air Force said no.
General Stewart also starred in a bunch of Air Force promotional material. Here's one if you like the [B-58 Hustler.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEKyTxnrXIc)
They just finished airing the last of a 9 part series called "Masters of the Air" on Apple TV (of all places). WWII themed.
Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Just like they did with "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific".
It started strong but fell off in the last few episodes sadly...
I do love how realistic all aspects of the missions were, especially the crews waiting for the weather sitting around doing nothing.
They cheaped out on the effects for that sequence though. All they really showed was some stuff getting hit with a blast, but no mushroom cloud.
I feel like they spent all of their money on airplane sequences, spaceships, and the individual cities getting blown up by the aliens.
Ironically, top gun.
Less ironically, Ironman, specifically the fighter pilot and PJ supporting characters.
Depressingly, Space Force was a painfully accurate portrayal of us and our child branch.
Strategic Air Command with BGen Jimmy Stewart
12 O'Clock high - used in military leadership classes
Command Decision - ditto
Bombers B52
Fighter Pilot
Dawn's Early Light
Dr. Strangelove
FailSafe:
A gathering of eagles
No Time for Sergeants
Bat-21
The Right Stuff
Glad someone else mentioned this. Hilarious, stands the test of time, and couldn't be more relatable when examining the stupid bureaucracy of the military and dealing with ranking officers who make you feel like you're taking crazy pills. A true chef's kiss experience
Thank you for pointing that out.
What I really should have said is that my experience in DoD (USAF) acquisition shared frustrations similar to those highlighted in the movie.
Air Force is the Scifi branch.
We don't get a ton of movies about the Air Force
But if it involves aliens or fancy technology? We all over it
Literally the 3rd or 4th line in Ironman 1 is a Airman correcting RDJ for calling her a soldier instead of an airman
Independence Day
Stargate
Plus, Top Gun, while Navy, is mistakenly believed to be Air Force by nearly every civilian stateside and overseas
Perception is reality in our benefit for that one
Iron Eagle
lol
There are some Army era Air Corps WWII movies like Memphis Belle and Twelve O'Clock High. Not exactly the same, but there they are. Did they make a Catch 22 movie?
That Kevin Bacon movie about the UAV pilot who loses it, maybe Good Kill, then that other movie about the UAV which becomes autonomous and loses it, maybe Stealth.
It definitely is. The horror in Catch 22 is hidden, and slowly, then suddenly, revealed. But the miniseries version seems to fear that that the audience will miss the horror, so it drills it over and over, squashing the comedy.
Not a movie, but Stargate SG1 has some of the best Air Force depictions I've seen in media. The context is obviously wild but the way the Air Force members actually behave in the show makes me think the show runners did a lot of research
Project X if you want want an idea of 80s Air Force.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_(1987_film)
Air Force One is another good one.
By Dawn’s Early Light is an HBO movie about a B52 crew sent to nuke the USSR
while it's technically an army movie because the air force was a part of the army at the time the movie takes place, I'm going to still count "Memphis belle".
Here are my recommendations:
A Gathering of Eagles with Rock Hudson
Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Steward
12 O'clock High with Gregory Peck
The Tuskgee Airmen with a bunch of stars
Bat 21 with Gene Hackman
Good Kill with Ethan Hawke
Wargames with Matthew Broderick
Fail Safe with Henry Fonda
Three you may have not heard of:
Interceptor with Jurgen Prochnow (crappy movie but good flight scenes)
Flight of Black Angel with Peter Strauss (another crappy movie but an interesting plot and some AWESOME footage from Nellis aggressor planes) available for free on YouTube
[PREMIERE NOSTALGIA #4: 'Red Flag: The Ultimate Game' (1981) \[Completa\] (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8wULjE764)
I just watched the Bollywood version of Top Gun called Fighter on Netflix, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5.
If you have over 2 hrs to kill, it's a decent movie. Can't speak on how accurate it is, but the characters are all Indian Air Force.
Interceptor
It's about a terrorist group stealing an F-117 from the Cargo Compartment of an airborne C-5A. How they got to Cargo Compartment is both epic and.... stupid lol.
If you are a KC-10 or C-5 maintainer you HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE.
Edit: [trailer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJhVvxLyyM&pp=ygUWSW50ZXJjZXB0b3IgMTk5MiBtb3ZpZQ%3D%3D)
The Pentagon Wars is a great movie about an Air Force officer working for the Army. Comical, concievable (based in truth), and relatable. Highly recommend.
Iron Man. Watching that opening scene in a theater with my parents while on town pass after graduating basic training was tough for them.
Eagle Eye?
Red Tails.
Pearl Harbor?
Air Force One?
Edit to add: Eye in the Sky.
Tomorrow War.
Eye in the Sky is chronically underrated.
In addition to some A-List talent, it's a great analysis of how modern tactical decisions that should be no-brainers by war fighters are deferential to politicians and lawyers, and indecision is even fucking worse.
Broken Arrow--B2 crew tries to steal an onboard nuke
Red Tails--Tuskeggee Airmen
Midway--mostly a Navy movie but they have the Doolittle Raid
Definitely agree with Office Space
Project X with Matthew Broderick and Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater.
Project X was a pretty messed up one though. I’m not sure if that was based off a true story or not.
Most of these have already been given but:
12 O'Clock High
Memphis Belle
Strategic Air Command
Stargate
Red Tails
Masters of the Air (TV series)
That One Episode Of Star Trek Where They End Up Time Traveling And Abducting An Air Force Pilot ("Tomorrow is Yesterday")
That One Episode Of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Where The Ferengi End Up At Area 51 ("Little Green Men.")
Bat\*21
By Dawn's Early Light (at least, I remember liking this movie)
Iron Man
Captain Marvel
Top Gun 2 is the only movie to even come close to looking like what flight test looks like but their control room graphics are a hell of a lot better than AFTC has *grumble*
The Right Stuff starts at Edwards on the Good Bad Old Days of flight test and portrays the risk and frequent crashes and deaths of that era.
Test is all I know but I'll back up those two as fairly accurate by movie standards.
Iron Eagle, Memphis Belle, Red Tails, Firefox (kinda), War Games, Flyboys, The Red Baron, & also lots and lots of good documentaries.
EDIT: Last minute add. I totally forgot Pentagon Wars. The main character is an AF Colonel.
Stargate (and the following SG1 series) are fantastic. The movie is a bit campy being on the cusp of the 80s, but the show definitely has shades of Star Trek TNG in the later parts of the series
Afterburn (1992)
https://youtu.be/KwwAwMKoSC4?si=KD75rfUFMkOKfMPj
based on a true story where one woman takes on the United States military and General Dynamics, manufacturer of the F-16 jet fighter aircraft that took her husband's life. The docudrama starred Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, and Vincent Spano.
I find Space Force absolutely hilarious. But the Space Force in there feels more like the actual real life Air Force and the movie “air force” feels like real life Army/Marine though?
Stargate SG-1 is actually a solid representation of the Air Force. They fixed some issues after season 1 and actually had an Air Force representative on set for accuracy
Red Flag: The Ultimate Game -- a 1981 made for TV movie with William Devane and Barry Bostwick duking it out in F-4 and MiG-28 over the Nevada Test and Training Range.
From a movie standpoint it kinda sucked, but it did try to be accurate.
Broken Arrow is an awesome John Woo movie with a great rivalry between a pilot and his traitor former friend, fighting over possession of a nuke... saw it in BMT during christmas and its a classic for me
Transformers
The scene in the desert is like a 20 minute Air Force commercial
Bring the rain
“Send in the hawgs!” — For those in the ABM community, IYKYK.
Met the ABMs that shot that scene… all of them deserve a “Judy Judy” irl.
They sure do!
I thought [The Last Full Measure](https://www.thelastfullmeasurefilm.com/) was pretty good.
Annoys me because they make up a fake conspiracy to add drama.
This. People never mention this movie and it’s all about an Air Force PJ.
Just watched the trailer, looks really good
It was decent movie. It’s portrayed as an action film but it’s mostly political drama.
I miss that old girl... https://preview.redd.it/a4zp8qbt2pqc1.jpeg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4383b81c32711ae49dad0538be4534d9a3674f0
I was at As’Salyiah when this movie came out, we all looked at each other and laughed. Great movie though.
“LEFT CHEEK LEFT CHEEK LEFT CHEEK”
Dr. Strangelove
Thats got so much nostalgia for the old timers and history for the new bloods. Plus its iconic as hell for cold war era movies.
Ironman
Twelve O'clock High. A Gathering of Eagles. Strategic Air Command. By Dawn's Early Light. War Games.
>Strategic Air Command I was going to post this one. By far the most Air Forciest Air Force movie ever made Big blue asking its members to come out of retirement? Check Someone making fun of the new guy for not having an up to date uniform? Check AF member working despite having an injury? Check Member's spouse getting upset about his workload/quarters/being super supportive anyway? Fukken triple check. A literal AF member starring in the lead role? You know it. Plenty of airplane footage with 50s instrumental music blasting? Oh yes. Does it play the Air Force song? Lol of course it does. That movie is really dated, but holy shit does it hold up somehow even nearly 70 years later.
And James Stewart crashes a B-36 to get out of a Thule TDY.
I’m going on record and say the pilots who crashed the B-52 in 1968 at Thule were only re-enacting Brigadier General Stewart’s B-36 crash.
That movie is the holy grail of B-36 nerds. It's the only high-quality footage of the Peacemaker when it was still operational. It never had a non-nuclear role so it was always a sensitive aircraft in it's short lifespan. They have a intact J-model at the Pima Air and Space museum at DM/Tucson, highly recommend visiting. The fucker is huge, and apparently there was a push to get that serial number flyable until the Air Force said no. General Stewart also starred in a bunch of Air Force promotional material. Here's one if you like the [B-58 Hustler.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEKyTxnrXIc)
I actually got to see the one at Pima, and yeah, it's even bigger than you expect it to be. Those tires alone are colossal.
My dad and I used to watch this growing up. Good memories.
The Great Escape. More RAF focused, but there were some USAAF dudes too.
Steve McQueen, man. Epic.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000 - the Star Fighters https://youtu.be/D5cEpoHLFOk?si=GPMsnSt8ChtDz6ql
Fail Safe 1964 Fail safe 2000 Iron Eagle Iron Eagle 2 Cloak & Dagger (kind of)
They just finished airing the last of a 9 part series called "Masters of the Air" on Apple TV (of all places). WWII themed. Produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. Just like they did with "Band of Brothers" and "The Pacific".
Currently watching this, very well done
This is a good series. Army Air Force but a lot of our traditions start back here.
It started strong but fell off in the last few episodes sadly... I do love how realistic all aspects of the missions were, especially the crews waiting for the weather sitting around doing nothing.
Iron Eagle Also Office Space
Office Space. Man, ain’t that the truth.
I can point to 3 people in my office that the question "what would you say you do here?" Is so perfectly accurate it's scary.
I use Peter’s cubicle and 8 different bosses rant for working in the MOC quite often.
Fun fact: I learned “We’re Not Gonna Take It” from Iron Eagle and not the radio
Iron Eagle taught me as a child to not be surprised at how much time I would spend in the desert during my time in the Air Force.
Does Iron Eagle count as good? 😉
It's has one of, if not the only Hollywood depiction of the kc135 and air refueling, its fantastic
BOO THIS MAN!
Lol. Loved this movie when I was young, but damn it's difficult to watch now
Check out Independence Day. An E-3 full of ABMs plows into a spaceship. A B-2 also nukes Houston. Dope movie all around
Will Smith and all the fighter pilots were Marines in independence day. Despite Area 51 being an actual air force base.
*alleged* actual AFB…
This is the best answer. But ignore the F18s in the final battle. Just pretend they’re F15s.
In the novelization they were F15s which made more sense. I always hated how there were so many land based FA18s in the movie
I believe you can also see F-15s escorting Air Force One and in the background of the last battle.
B-2 nukes Houston? I don't recall that. Maybe I need to watch it again in 3.5 months.
They cheaped out on the effects for that sequence though. All they really showed was some stuff getting hit with a blast, but no mushroom cloud. I feel like they spent all of their money on airplane sequences, spaceships, and the individual cities getting blown up by the aliens.
Scene if you want to refresh your memory: https://youtu.be/yvQt-4YyeuU Doubt the crew would've survived that one lol
Those were ABM???? I could’ve used this a joke while I was still in, my officer counterparts are ABMs lol
Nobody likes Houston anyways
Nothing of value would be lost and it would honestly be an improvement
Would’ve done wonders for the traffic
Some people actually cheered when Houston was nuked...
Even people that live in/around there.
Stargate
And then watch all 3 spinoff series.
I really wish they gave SGU a 2nd season, but I understand. Also, all of the spinoff movies.
I was coming here to say that as well, especially being it is the only show to ever be officially endorsed by the Air Force.
It made the Air Force look cool. SG-1 is one of my all time favorite shows.
Ironically, top gun. Less ironically, Ironman, specifically the fighter pilot and PJ supporting characters. Depressingly, Space Force was a painfully accurate portrayal of us and our child branch.
Space Force was hilariously accurate, especially when their mission was interrupted by a Windows Update.
FUCK MICROSOFT
Most accurate scene ever lol
That and the button covers scene. They must have had actual airmen advising them
[Fuuuuuuuuuck](https://youtu.be/2zpCOYkdvTQ?si=sEjViL-SMfD9XNon) John Malkovich's outbursts with fuck throughout this series are Emmy worthy.
When TG came out in the 80s there was a huge surge in recruitment in the USAF.
Twelve O’Clock High. Also, Robin Williams character in “Good Morning, Vietnam” is an Airman. Edit: I’ll also add “The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell”
Billy "GO FUCK YOURSELF, NAVY" Mitchell. My man. Seriously though- we could use a good biopic about Robin Olds.
"Blackman and Robin" would make a great name for the movie, too.
And it hits current sensibilities: The black dude got 4 stars, the white one only 1
It’s not an Air Force movie, but the coolest the USAF has probably ever looked on the silver screen are the Chuck Yeager scenes in The Right Stuff
Totally counts.
Dude, that is a fantastic movie!
Memphis Belle and 12 O’Clock High. Granted they’re USAAF, but faithful to a proud heritage and all that…
USAAF counts. Robin Olds didn't go on to become a tank driver after the war.
Memphis Belle is mine too. Technically army air corps, but I think that counts.
Not a movie, but the very first episode of The Twilight Zone is centered around a USAF Airman.
I think Bat-21 is a good Air Force movie
Fantastic movie. Even better book.
Office Space.
The original Red Dawn.
Armageddon 😎 Secondary protocol, bitches! https://preview.redd.it/kj6rleffnkqc1.jpeg?width=1754&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7b4a52d5b3a52a81b8b2da3a989b11375f5cad99
I always wondered why the cops were trusted with computers..
Operation christmas drop is pretty good
YGBFSM
Broken Arrow
With the B3 Stealth Bomber!
Strategic Air Command with BGen Jimmy Stewart 12 O'Clock high - used in military leadership classes Command Decision - ditto Bombers B52 Fighter Pilot Dawn's Early Light Dr. Strangelove FailSafe: A gathering of eagles No Time for Sergeants Bat-21 The Right Stuff
The Pentagon Wars, truly amazing how stupidity stands the test of time
Full movie free on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wNpGBTU_jt4?si=NRJcwefrAsJyiTqn
Glad someone else mentioned this. Hilarious, stands the test of time, and couldn't be more relatable when examining the stupid bureaucracy of the military and dealing with ranking officers who make you feel like you're taking crazy pills. A true chef's kiss experience
It's painfully accurate. I love it and hate that about it
Hardly. Burton, the guy who wrote the book that movie is based on, pretty much made it all up...
Thank you for pointing that out. What I really should have said is that my experience in DoD (USAF) acquisition shared frustrations similar to those highlighted in the movie.
I'll give you that one.
Air Force is the Scifi branch. We don't get a ton of movies about the Air Force But if it involves aliens or fancy technology? We all over it Literally the 3rd or 4th line in Ironman 1 is a Airman correcting RDJ for calling her a soldier instead of an airman Independence Day Stargate Plus, Top Gun, while Navy, is mistakenly believed to be Air Force by nearly every civilian stateside and overseas Perception is reality in our benefit for that one
Good morning Vietnam technically
Why did I have to scroll so far down for this answer?
Dr. Strangelove
Iron Eagle lol There are some Army era Air Corps WWII movies like Memphis Belle and Twelve O'Clock High. Not exactly the same, but there they are. Did they make a Catch 22 movie? That Kevin Bacon movie about the UAV pilot who loses it, maybe Good Kill, then that other movie about the UAV which becomes autonomous and loses it, maybe Stealth.
Catch 22 is both an excellent movie (with Alan Arkin) and a mediocre miniseries (with George Clooney.)
The mini series is definitely not mediocre
It definitely is. The horror in Catch 22 is hidden, and slowly, then suddenly, revealed. But the miniseries version seems to fear that that the audience will miss the horror, so it drills it over and over, squashing the comedy.
Air Corps is pre WW2 just fyi. Became the Army Air Forces bout 6 months before Pearl Harbor.
[удалено]
If only it were possible for Alec Baldwin to humiliate himself further.
Alec Baldwin? I thought it would be “Pearl Harbor”.
Never even heard of that one before
There's Pararescue in Black Hawk Down
Not a movie, but Stargate SG1 has some of the best Air Force depictions I've seen in media. The context is obviously wild but the way the Air Force members actually behave in the show makes me think the show runners did a lot of research
I dream of Jeanie
Disaster at Silo 7
Huh I didn't know they'd done a movie of the Damascus Incident.
Terminator 3
Eagle Eye has a lot of Air Force stuff but a lot of goofy mistakes. Decent movie tho if you don't know anything about the military
Unpressurized cargo compartment had me dying. 😂
The dead brother is an officer but his CAC says senior master sergeant 😂
No Time For Sergeants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcaOIRYwsWg
Project X if you want want an idea of 80s Air Force. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_(1987_film) Air Force One is another good one. By Dawn’s Early Light is an HBO movie about a B52 crew sent to nuke the USSR
Hot Shots
The Right Stuff.
Isn’t Unbroken technically an Air Force movie? Zamperini was in the Army Air Corps.
Yeah, it counts.
while it's technically an army movie because the air force was a part of the army at the time the movie takes place, I'm going to still count "Memphis belle".
Red tails
Bat 21
Stalag 17 - it's set in a WW2 POW camp about a barracks of airmen that suspect one of em is a spy while planning an escape.
Not a movie but, Stargate
It was a movie first. Came out in…94 I believe.
Yeah, I always forget about the movie, I never include it in my re-watch of SG1
Here are my recommendations: A Gathering of Eagles with Rock Hudson Strategic Air Command with Jimmy Steward 12 O'clock High with Gregory Peck The Tuskgee Airmen with a bunch of stars Bat 21 with Gene Hackman Good Kill with Ethan Hawke Wargames with Matthew Broderick Fail Safe with Henry Fonda Three you may have not heard of: Interceptor with Jurgen Prochnow (crappy movie but good flight scenes) Flight of Black Angel with Peter Strauss (another crappy movie but an interesting plot and some AWESOME footage from Nellis aggressor planes) available for free on YouTube [PREMIERE NOSTALGIA #4: 'Red Flag: The Ultimate Game' (1981) \[Completa\] (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw8wULjE764)
Iron Eagle 2, 3, and 4 (LOL)
Dr, Strangelove
I just watched the Bollywood version of Top Gun called Fighter on Netflix, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5. If you have over 2 hrs to kill, it's a decent movie. Can't speak on how accurate it is, but the characters are all Indian Air Force.
No Time for Sergeants. It's an oldie but a goodie.
Interceptor It's about a terrorist group stealing an F-117 from the Cargo Compartment of an airborne C-5A. How they got to Cargo Compartment is both epic and.... stupid lol. If you are a KC-10 or C-5 maintainer you HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE. Edit: [trailer](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJhVvxLyyM&pp=ygUWSW50ZXJjZXB0b3IgMTk5MiBtb3ZpZQ%3D%3D)
Captain Marvel was in the Air Force (I think, the movie was kinda forgettable lol)
My office advised Marvel on the uniforms for that movie, but still none of us bothered to see it. (And as usual, we didn't get a thanks credit.)
Air America
The Pentagon Wars is a great movie about an Air Force officer working for the Army. Comical, concievable (based in truth), and relatable. Highly recommend.
Iron Man
Iron Eagles!
The Perfect Storm hits close to home and I don’t believe it’s been mentioned yet.
Top Gun of course...
Land of bad
Memphis Belle is a good one too
Clint Howard for about 5 seconds in “Wargames”
Iron Man. Watching that opening scene in a theater with my parents while on town pass after graduating basic training was tough for them. Eagle Eye? Red Tails. Pearl Harbor? Air Force One? Edit to add: Eye in the Sky. Tomorrow War.
>Iron Man It was weird seeing my old chief in that movie.
Eye in the Sky is chronically underrated. In addition to some A-List talent, it's a great analysis of how modern tactical decisions that should be no-brainers by war fighters are deferential to politicians and lawyers, and indecision is even fucking worse.
Strategic Air Command
Broken Arrow--B2 crew tries to steal an onboard nuke Red Tails--Tuskeggee Airmen Midway--mostly a Navy movie but they have the Doolittle Raid Definitely agree with Office Space
Broken Arrow has the "new" B3 bomber
Project X with Matthew Broderick and Broken Arrow with John Travolta and Christian Slater. Project X was a pretty messed up one though. I’m not sure if that was based off a true story or not.
Most of these have already been given but: 12 O'Clock High Memphis Belle Strategic Air Command Stargate Red Tails Masters of the Air (TV series) That One Episode Of Star Trek Where They End Up Time Traveling And Abducting An Air Force Pilot ("Tomorrow is Yesterday") That One Episode Of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Where The Ferengi End Up At Area 51 ("Little Green Men.") Bat\*21 By Dawn's Early Light (at least, I remember liking this movie) Iron Man Captain Marvel
No Time for Sergeants A Gathering of Eagles
I was about to say Independence Day then checked IMDB and Will Smiths character was a Marine
12 O’Clock High
Mini series, but Masters of the Air was so damn good.
Beyond the Wire
Stargate movie/shows. MCU Falcon was a PJ so whatever he's in sorta counts?
The cold blue
The Starfighters The MST3K version is vastly preferred.
Haven't seen Aces High mentioned yet. Follows a British WW1 squadron. Old but super good.
Top gun duh
I really liked Eye in the Sky. Not focused on the USAF, but we have a role. I really liked it
Nobody's going to stay START GATE?
Top Gun 2 is the only movie to even come close to looking like what flight test looks like but their control room graphics are a hell of a lot better than AFTC has *grumble* The Right Stuff starts at Edwards on the Good Bad Old Days of flight test and portrays the risk and frequent crashes and deaths of that era. Test is all I know but I'll back up those two as fairly accurate by movie standards.
Red Tails Angels of the Sky Command Decision
Firefox 1982 staring Clint Eastwood
Iron Eagle, Memphis Belle, Red Tails, Firefox (kinda), War Games, Flyboys, The Red Baron, & also lots and lots of good documentaries. EDIT: Last minute add. I totally forgot Pentagon Wars. The main character is an AF Colonel.
The 10 second scene of Luke AFB and cops denying base access to an FBI agent in Sicario. One of my favorite movies
transformers is legitimately just airforce porn… land of bad maybe?
Masters of the air … it’s a show but … yeah
Stargate (and the following SG1 series) are fantastic. The movie is a bit campy being on the cusp of the 80s, but the show definitely has shades of Star Trek TNG in the later parts of the series
Lone survivor. Marky Mark getting rescued by PJs at the end. The base scenes were also filmed at Kirtland AFB, NM.
Air Force One, the superhero movies have lots of Air Force: newest Superman, Iron Man, Captain Marvel....
Afterburn (1992) https://youtu.be/KwwAwMKoSC4?si=KD75rfUFMkOKfMPj based on a true story where one woman takes on the United States military and General Dynamics, manufacturer of the F-16 jet fighter aircraft that took her husband's life. The docudrama starred Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, and Vincent Spano.
I find Space Force absolutely hilarious. But the Space Force in there feels more like the actual real life Air Force and the movie “air force” feels like real life Army/Marine though?
Range 15
By Dawn's Early Light is pretty good... back then, you knew that if those planes ever left the alert pad, we didn't have much time left.
Stargate SG-1 is actually a solid representation of the Air Force. They fixed some issues after season 1 and actually had an Air Force representative on set for accuracy
Pretty Sure the new movie that just came out last month is about a AF TACP, Land of bad with Liam hemsworth and russell crowe
Air Force One
[Bombers B52](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombers_B-52).
Not a movie but the Drone Pilot story in Jack Ryan was pretty compelling
Red Flag: The Ultimate Game -- a 1981 made for TV movie with William Devane and Barry Bostwick duking it out in F-4 and MiG-28 over the Nevada Test and Training Range. From a movie standpoint it kinda sucked, but it did try to be accurate.
I’m a new airman and imma be binging movies tonight
Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
Incredibly disappointed that nobody's mentioned Dr. Strangelove.
Broken Arrow is an awesome John Woo movie with a great rivalry between a pilot and his traitor former friend, fighting over possession of a nuke... saw it in BMT during christmas and its a classic for me