Aviation Videos and Animation
Video and Animation Websites
- 405 A short visual effects film created on PC's. Download it or purchase on VHS.
- Adventure Productions Hang gliding, paragliding, and soaring videos and CD ROMs, streaming video.
- Aeroclipper Video Purchase aviation DVDs including fighters, bombers, naval aviation, postwar military jet, commercial props and jets, aircraft restorations, and floatplanes.
- AeroHunter.com Hundreds of aviation related videos, all free to watch, post, comment, and share.
- AeroSpaceNews.com News, pictures, and videos covering airline news, civil aviation, military, and space flight.
- Air Land + Sea Videos A variety of videos for sale: military, civil, aviation technology.
- Airline News This news site features airline story headlines with links to video news clips.
- airphoto Downloadable airline TV commercials aired in Hong Kong from 80s until now, with a collection of airliner photos taken in Hong Kong.
- Airplane Movies Airplane movies, VHS, and DVD listed by aircraft type.
- Airports of the World Video Series - Flying Pig Airliner Videos Airline and airport videos.
- Airshows.TV A website offering the latest news, videos, and pictures from airshows in the UK. Also, an online store selling the latest aviation DVD's and videos at competitive prices.
- airsidetv.com On-line aviation television and video. A must see for aviation enthusiasts with serious bandwidth. See also their flightsim page.
- AirUtopia / Aviation Data Corporation Offering a wide variety of military and commercial aviation DVDs, the "exclusive" A380 World Tour, and more.
- Aviation Audio Visual Aviation videos from airliners to warbirds. This is armchair flying at its best! Travel the world with the Blue Angels or from the cockpit of a 747.
- Aviation Heroes Military aircraft DVD documentaries.
- Aviation Media A producer of video magazines for pilots and aviation enthusiasts with stories designed to entertain and help pilots become safer and more proficient. Warbirds, classics, kitbuilts.
- Aviation Today Providing daily aviation videos: "Your daily fix of aviation in action. Well-produced daily videos, with thrilling perspectives from the cockpit and from all possible angles, set to energizing music."
- The Aviation Video Podcast An HD video podcast series by Jason Miller to inspire aviators and those that have always dreamed of being aviators.
- Avion Video High quality video programmes featuring airliners world-wide.
- Barry & Kathleens Video Page A personal site with free ultralight flying videos.
- Tim Bayer This video producer has created several Powered Parachute videos, including the 2002 World Powered Parachute Championship video and the 2002 Powrachute Extravaganza video.
- A Beginner's Guide to Ultralight Flying Videos about ultralight flying by Brian FitzGerald.
- Best Aviation Videos Military and civil aircraft videos online.
- Bill Roberts Enterprises The full-hour DVD, How To Effectively Buy A Used Airplane, contains the information you need to search, evaluate, and purchase. Comes with a free companion eBook.
- Bluewater Sport Aviation Offering Sport Aviation videos, DVDs, and books: sport flying, hang gliding, ultralights, trikes, paragliding. powered parachutes, etc.
- Boeing Image Gallery Streaming media with product information (requires RealPlayer plug-in), product and action videos and virtual tours in .avi, .mov, and Cult 3D formats.
- Builder's Bookstore Aircraft construction books and videos.
- Classic Planes TV This site lets you view classic videos of past aircraft.
- Cockpit It's a slightly lewd comedy webseries on Myspace about the crew of Mile High Airline. These guys are, well, more than a little whacked and each one has a Myspace page. If this was really what life in the cockpit was like, you'd never fly again. The video is served up by YouTube and the production quality is good. At this point the series is just getting started and it'll be interesting to follow along - even if you don't even know what Myspace is. (Your age is showing!)
- Combat Video Special Forces and military instructional video collection. On-line ordering.
- Curry Enterprise Special Interest Videos & CD-ROMs Wide variety of videos. Aviation titles include Age of Flight Series, Blue Angels, Air and Space, etc.
- European Airshows Website In addition to airshow schedules, this site offers downloads of aircraft video files.
- Feels Like Flying A video of a low-level aerial tour around the U.S. in a small plane. View sample movie clips, photos, and info about photographic flights, or purchase the DVD.
- A Fine Week of Soaring A video that gives viewers an exciting insider's view of the Mifflin, Pennsylvania regional contest from the back seat of a Duo Discus high performance glider, with 15-time US national champion Karl Striedieck at the controls. 69 minutes, video. Available on DVD or VHS (NTSC) and VHS (PAL).
- The Finer Points - Aviation Videos Weekly flying tips to make you a safer pilot. From expert flight instructor, Jason Miller.
- Flight Video Productions Cockpit videos in high performance general aviation aircraft using multiple production quality cameras to immerse the viewer in the total flight experience. Full length flight videos are available for instant download from this site, or on DVD.
- Flightlevel350.com A large database of aviation videos, with a strong search feature. Forum, chat, monthly contest.
- FlyboyTV A "You-Tube" style video site with hundreds of military and general aviation videos. Watch a Harrier malfunction and pilot ejection, a documentary film of the A-10 GAU-8 Gatling gun, and videos of crashes, crazy landings, aerobatics, and a lot more.
- Flying the Falls This impressive Sony Hi-Definition adventure documentary explores Southern Africa from the unique vantage point of open cockpit aircraft (trike). See some of Africa's wildest locations, including the Etosha Pan, Caprivi Strip, Victoria Falls, and the confluence of the mighty Zambezi and Chobe Rivers.
- Flying the Fish An adventure documentary about flying a microlight trike from Cape Town to the Fish River Canyon in Namibia.
- FlySouth TV Media Broadcast-quality aviation video productions documenting South Africa's sport, recreational, civil, and military aviation. Television productions on special aviation events available to foreign markets interested in the South African aviation.
- Griffin Helicopters Videos This is a collection of around 190 public domain helicopter videos available for download or online viewing. Categories include aerobatics, accidents and incidents, maneuver demonstrations, manufacturer promotional videos, and other helocopter videos.
- Highball Productions Specializes in high quality videos of commercial planes.
- Holmestead Aviation Library Videos (and books) related to flight.
- How To Buy A Used Airplane This hour-long DVD contains tips for search preparation and has complete pre-purchase guidance. From a simple single to a complex multi-engine aircraft. Free companion eBook.
- ITVV Intelligent Television and Video. a producer of aviation videos and documentary style programmes, including airliner cockpit documentaries made with the co-operation of major airlines, and the story of the Hurricane R4118.
- Just Planes Videos Many aviation videos. Also, news, "foto" section, airline forum, airport flight info, airline shows, aviation links.
- Keith Breazeal Video Productions Aerobatic oriented video production. 20 year's experience producing promo videos for the airshow industry.
- Landing Short... A compilation of Internet videos, images, and curiosities related to aircraft and aviation. The interesting and surprising content is updated regularly.
- Left Pattern.net Flying videos in windows media format from a general aviation pilot who flies single engine aircraft based out of Oakland California.
- List of Aviation Movies An alphabetical filmography.
- Military Aviation Movie List An extensive list of movies with strong military aviation content, set in naval air/air forces, on carriers, flying warbirds, and biographies that include military aviation content.
- NASA Dryden Research Aircraft Movie Gallery An archive of short digitized video clips of many of the unique NASA research aircraft flown from the 1940s to the present.
- Nolly Productions, Inc. Aviation training courses on videotape.
- On the Wings of Giants This project is an initiative to produce a two hour documentary and companion educational DVD-ROM and Web site examining the story of Pan American World Airways.
- One Six Right A documentary film that takes a look at the local airport through the history of Southern California's Van Nuys Airport.
- Paraflite.net Powered parachute training videos.
- Patrick's Aviation At this aviation video and photo sharing site you can store your videos and photos, share them with your friends, and search through thousands of aviation videos and photos. There are also forums on a variety of aviation topics, aviation news (with RSS feeds), and an aviation wiki.
- PlanesTV This UK video and DVD production company produces aviation action DVDs, airshow and aircraft video clips, and images. For television companies, aircraft operators, airshow organizers, video and DVD retailers, and aircraft ehthusiasts.
- Pro-Wing A European producer of specialist military and civil aviation video productions. Exclusive series presenting aircraft, teams, and aerobatic pilots such as the Frecce Tricolori, Nikolay Timofeev, Svetlana Kapanina, Aerotriga, etc. Dramatic in-flight footage featuring F-16 solo display, the very last operational F-104 Starfighters, and many more. VHS, DVD and TV productions.
- RC Model Airplane Videos "The best model plane videos in one place." Los mejores vídeos de aeromodelismo en un sólo lugar. Click right now and go watch these amazing videos.
- rocket.aero Films and DVDs highlighting little known chapters in aerospace history from materials unearthed from the National Archives, NASA, and military sources. Source films are transferred to digital. In most cases, they're using film that hasn't been seen in years, and in some cases it's never been seen before by the public. If you're an historian, a model builder, or an aerospace enthusiast, you'll find something exciting here. Podcasts created from DVD and other content are available for download.
- SeePlane.com View 360 degree virtual tours of airliners, business jets, and VIP aircraft, outside and inside. Gulfstream, Beechjet, DC-8, Boeing, Lear, Challenger, Falcon, Hawker, Jetstream, King Air Constellation, Galaxy, BAC, Westwind, others.
- Skylines Aviation Supply Pty Ltd: Aviation Videos A number of videos are available from this pilot shop.
- Socratic Productions How a Helicopter Flies - an interactive DVD that explores the fundamentals, including a self-discovery of the four forces of flight, flight control functions, and flight characteristics of a helicopter.
- SportPlanes.TV This site is dedicated to sport aviation and allows you to share your photo's and video's, browse aviation classified's, and post questions and answers in the forums. Upload videos and pictures of your homebuilt project, or instructional videos on how you went about building your plane and any modifications you made. You'll also find links to builder pages and builder resources.
- Student Pilot Journal General Aviation pilots (or pilot wannabe's) will enjoy these frequent video podcasts by Greg Summers. They represent "a podcast journal in the life of a student pilot" and contain lots of good video straight from the cockpit. You can't get much closer to the action than this!
- TakeOff Tube Share your aviation videos and watch others for free. Upload and tag your videos in almost any video format. Easily share your aviation videos with everyone, put videos on your space or watch them there.
- TeamM A webshop for Swedish military and historical aviation videos, including the JAS39 Gripen, JA37 Viggen, J35 Draken, J29 Tunnan (the Flying barrel) and more.
- Timeless Media Group The Video and DVD section has aviation (and other) titles, including a special seven-hour edition of the Walter Cronkite "Air Power" program on a 3-disc DVD package and a 7-video box set.
- TWS Aviation Videos Video footage of Waddington 2000, Mildenhall 2000, and others on CD-ROM.
- Video Learning Library More than 20,000 how-to and special interest videos. See the "Aviation & Space Exploration" section.
- Videolife Specializes in high quality videos for aviation professionals, for example pilot and cabin crew training. Free samples for download in streaming media and MPEG formats.
- West Coast Images Features information and history of the Northrop McDonnell Douglas YF-23, the aircraft that lost to the F-22 in the ATF competition. Includes photos of the YF-23 and quotes from the documentary for sale by West Coast Images. DVD available.
- Wings in Focus A series of DVDs about the aircraft YOU fly. The first in the series profiles the Piper Cherokee, from its inception as the PA28-150, through to the current model Archers, Warriors, and Arrows. The second DVD is scheduled to be on the Cessna 172.
- Wings Over Canada The homepage of the Canadian TV series of the same name for bush planes and wilderness Canada adventures. Wilderness flying videos, episode videos, show descriptions, and shooting details.
- Wings 'n' Things Online shopping for aviation videos and books.
- World Air Routes Aviation travel videos.
- World Aviation Club Membership entitles you to access to air show streaming video and stills library. World Aviation Club is putting film crews into the world's major airshows, producing broadcast quality video, which can be watched streaming by members with Broadband Internet.
- World Military Helicopters This military helicopter resource site contains AH-64 Apache, KA-50 Black Shark, and Mi-24 Hind videos.
- Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In Vintage World War II aviation training films.
Aviation Video Rental Services
- Avnac "Aviation's video rental store." Rent aviation DVDs online: training for Sport pilots up to ATP, glass panels, GPS, IFR proficiency, A&P Mechanics, homebuilt aircraft, aircraft purchasing and licensing, Biennial Flight Review, entertainment discs and lots more. Founded by a licensed pilot.
- SmartFlix They rent DVDs that you won't find at mainstream rental shops, including a number of topics of interest to pilots: GPS, checkrides, spins & stalls, VFR and IFR, takeoffs and landings, homebuilts, sport pilot, navigation, night flying, and others.
Aviation Film & Video Services
- 2FLYTV Producers of high-end aviation videos and television programs that have been distributed across the video on demand services of Comcast and Cablevision. General aviation blog, aviation news, and exclusive videos.
- Aeronautic Pictures This aerial and location still and motion picture production company produces work for television and film production clients, and specializes in providing services to the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries. They also provide aerial production services to the commercial and high-end real estate markets, the travel and tourism business, as well as the maritime community. Their archive features 30,000 still photographs and hours of stock footage. Aeronautic Pictures has a royalty free photo section and a royalty free stock video section.
- Air Hollywood An airplane mock-up studio serving the motion picture, television, and commercial production industries.
- AviaFilms Production An aircraft cockpit movie making company that focuses on making videos of interest to all kinds of public audiences. One example is their Boeing 737 Full Motion Simulator Movie.
- Aviation Warehouse Aviation-related props, rentals, and sales for movie and television studios. Mock-ups of all makes and models of airplanes, mock-ups of helicopters, cockpits, crashed planes, and airplane parts. Also, a huge aviation technical library with over 300,000 aircraft manuals and more.
- Garmax Aviation Producers of broadcast quality interactive training DVDs, CD-ROMs and videos for airlines, air training organisations, display teams, professional and general aviation pilots and air enthusiasts
- New Media Freelancer This digital video camera service helps people market aircraft, boats, and motorhomes to interested buyers through DVD and the Internet. The service is available to commercial brokers as well as private sellers of aircraft, and can also be used as a visual record of ownership or for leasing/hire purposes. Port Stephens, NSW, Australia.
Aviation Film Lists & Reviews
Aviation Movie Websites
- The Aviary Movie A feature film written and produced by a flight attendant. Watch the trailer, read the Flight Attendant's blog (who made the film), meet the cast, read about production, buy the DVD.
- The Aviator Leonardo DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes. 2004.
- Black Hawk Down 123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. 2001.
- Con Air This Wikipedia page describes the plot and the characters of the movie where prisoners take over a C-123 transport plane. The Old Wings page C-123 Providers starring in "Con Air" offers some interesting facts and history of the aircraft that stars in the movie.
- Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag An actual international training exercise for the air forces of allied countries. Hundreds of pilots get tested in real and challenging exercises.
- Flight of the Phoenix Survivors of a plane crash in the Mongolian desert work together to build a new plane. Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto, Hugh Laurie. 2004.
- Flightplan A child disappears onboard a 747. Jodie Foster, 2005.
- Flyboys Americans flying with the French in World War II. 2006.
- Legends of the Sky The official site of the forthcoming (2008) 3D IMAX movie that features a number of historic commercial aircraft - all leading up to dramatic and exclusive large-format footage of the new 787 and A380. Sign up for updates, search for movie theaters, read production team bios.
- One Six Right "The Romance of Flying." This documentary film celebrates the local airport by looking at the history of Southern California's Van Nuys Airport. 2007.
- Red Eye Story, cast, photo gallery, production notes. 2005.
- Snakes on a Plane In this action/horror film, an assassin, on board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, releases a crate of snakes. Samuel L. Jackson. From New Line Cinema. 2006.
- United 93 September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth. From Universal Studios. 2006.
