
10 Best Movies Like First Flight
If you loved First Flight, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Flyboys
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Flight for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilo...

Von Richthofen and Brown
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Flight for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his colorful "flying circus" of Fok...

The Blue Max
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Flight for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills....

The Great Waldo Pepper
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Flight for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A biplane pilot and WWI veteran takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory days he misses....

Wings
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Flight for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best...

Aces High
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to First Flight for fans of War & Action & Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-...