Skyward (1980)
• November 20th, 1980 • 1h 40min
Drama, Family, TV Movie
Overview
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
West of Zanzibar
Released on: 1928-11-24
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired wit...
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Released on: 1957-04-01
Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure, Horror
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, s...
Freckles
Released on: 1917-05-28
Drama
Freckles, a one-armed orphan tired of being tormented by others runs away eventually finding a place...
Anna's Dream
Released on: 2002-09-20
TV Movie, Comedy, Drama
After a gymnastics accident leaves her paraplegic, 18-year-old Anna Morgan returns to high school. B...
The Bad Sleep Well
Released on: 1960-09-19
Crime, Drama, Thriller
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
Father's Day
Released on: 2026-03-06
Drama, Comedy
Tinke, who has been drinking his health away, lives in a care home, where his dark humour and his fr...
Monkey Shines
Released on: 1988-07-29
Horror, Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little mo...
The Primrose Ring
Released on: 1917-05-07
Drama
Margaret MacLean, who has been saved from life in a wheelchair by the miracle of medicine, vows to d...
Beginning
Released on: 2023-01-26
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Nithya, an IT professional, gets abducted and locked up inside a room by masked strangers. A random ...
S.A.M.
Released on: 2020-03-22
Drama, Romance
Two young men form a connection on the swings of their local park.
Radio
Released on: 2003-10-24
Drama
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots ...
The Crocodiles
Released on: 2009-03-26
Adventure, Family
Ten-year-old Hannes, growing up with his young, poor and single mother wants to join the coolest gan...
The Art of Negative Thinking
Released on: 2006-11-03
Comedy, Drama
The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring th...
The Drummer and the Keeper
Released on: 2017-09-08
Comedy, Drama
The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: ...
Finnischer Tango
Released on: 2008-08-28
Drama, Comedy
Alex is a passionate musician. He travels from one gig to the next with his tango band. He can't mak...
Love and Honor
Released on: 2006-12-01
Drama, Romance
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...
Give Them Wings
Released on: 2021-11-20
Drama
'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson.
Fish Out Of Water
Released on: 2019-11-16
Science Fiction, Family, Drama
Anxious about a new school and his relationship to his brother, a boy with Cerebral Palsy meets an a...
Being Heumann
Released on:
Drama
In 1977, Judy Heumann leads over a hundred disabled people to take over the San Francisco Federal Bu...
Hello, Goodbye
Released on: 2017-07-15
Drama
Hazuki and Aoi are classmates but their relationship outside class is fraught, and outside school no...