Amelia

Year: 2009

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Richard Gere, Mia Wasikowska, Hilary Swank

Duration: 111 min

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.—Jim Beaver

Genre: Action   Adventure   Biography   Drama   Romance