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2015., Anchor Bay Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Against Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. Against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers must survive storms, sharks, starvation, and each other, as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety.
![Against the sun [DVD] (2015). Directed by Brian Falk](/Library/images/~imageCT81640.JPG "Against the sun [DVD] (2015). Directed by Brian Falk")
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2015., Knopf Call No: 629.132 V256s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight--a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity--to the realm of the mundane. When most people today think of flying, they imagine tedious routines that involve security checkpoints, exorbitant baggage fees, shrinking legroom, and frustrating delays. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who gave up careers in academia and the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to re-imagine what we--both as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, the author vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries, above mountains, oceans, and deserts, through snow, wind, and rain, limning a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity which can afford us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form"--
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2003., Juvenile, Christal Films Call No: DVD Fic Snow Walker Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the plane carrying Charlie Halliday, a maverick bush pilot and a sick, young, Inuit woman, Kanaalaq, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature's worst. While search parties try to find the downed plane Charlie decides to trek over land, promising the woman that he will return with help. Despite her weakened condition, she follows Charlie and nurses him back to health when insects, cold and starvation threaten to kill him shortly after he leaves. Kanaalaq teaches him the skills he will need to survive and he comes to respect her wisdom and love her valiant spirit as they each set out into the wilderness. Each will find a startling and solitary destiny in the beautiful and stark tundra. An adventure story that will move and inspire you as it touches your heart.
![The snow walker [DVD] (2003). Directed by Charles Martin Smith.](/Library/images/~imageCT83039.JPG "The snow walker [DVD] (2003). Directed by Charles Martin Smith.")
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-- Odyssée de Charles Lindbergh2006., General, Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Spirit St. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "On May 21, 1927, the world changed. 'Lucky Lindy' landed outside Paris. And people who previously talked about the limitations of air travel suddenly dreamed of its limitless possibilities. The Spirit of St. Louis is six-time Academy Awardª winner Billy Wilder's recreation of the struggles and success of Charles A. Lindbergh, the pioneering flyboy who, like test pilots and astronauts to follow later, had the 'right stuff' of aviation heroism. Lindbergh fan James Stewart, himself a pilot, sought the role - and was initially turned down. But his persistence paid off, as Stewart added Lindy to his gallery of indelible portrayals of American heroes. He and Wilder together manned the cockpit of a stirring epic entertainment."--Container.
![The Spirit of St. Louis [DVD] (1957) Directed by Billy Wilder](/Library/images/~imageCT75059.JPG "The Spirit of St. Louis [DVD] (1957) Directed by Billy Wilder")
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2016., Adult, 96, Warner Bros. Entertainment Canada Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Sully Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain Chesley Sullenberger, nicknamed "Sully" glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.
![Sully [DVD] (2016). Directed by Clint Eastwood.](/Library/images/~imageCT100949.JPG "Sully [DVD] (2016). Directed by Clint Eastwood.")
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2007., Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Zero H Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Cult camp classic.Summary Note: A wrong dinner selection gives food poisoning to the pilot and first officer of Flight 714-- and that could mean doom for everyone aboard. This film was later spoofed in the comedy "Airplane!".
![Zero hour! [DVD] (1957). Directed by Hall Bartlett.](/Library/images/~imageCT82258.JPG "Zero hour! [DVD] (1957). Directed by Hall Bartlett.")