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Summary: In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude's every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear; lurking...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SHA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHA

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Sh

Summary: The crowning triumph of a career cut tragically short, Larisa Shepitko's final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and went on to be hailed as one of the finest works of late-Soviet cinema. In the darkest days of World War II, two partisans set out for supplies to sustain their beleaguered outfit, braving the blizzard-swept landscape of Nazi-occupied Belarus.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ASC

Summary: A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ONL

Summary: Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD A

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME

Runyan, Aimie K.

Summary: "Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUN

Pearson, P. O'Connell (Patricia O'Connell)

Summary: In the tradition of Hidden Figures, debut author Patricia Pearson offers a beautifully written account of the remarkable but often forgotten group of female fighter pilots who answered their country's call in its time of need during World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 PEA

Hopson, Carole

Summary: A few years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew right over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie wasn't afraid. Without even thinking, she spread my arms out and pretended she was flying. She knew there was freedom in those wings. The daughter of a woman born into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOP

Dunn, Dinah

Summary: "Read 10 stories of brave women whose adventures have taken them around the world"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Girls, Inc. 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 920 DUN

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