"A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies."20 November 1980Drama, Family, TV Movie100 mins
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.
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates.
In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American young man nicknamed Radio near his practice field and is inspired to befriend him.
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Darol Kubacz is unstoppable. A U.S. Army veteran without the use of his legs, this leader and Freedom For Life Non-Profit Founder is determined to be the first disabled human to summit Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, without being pushed, pulled or carried.
Ken, a WWII GI, returns home after he's paralyzed in battle. Residing in the paraplegic ward of a veteran's hospital and embittered by his condition, he refuses to see his fiancée and sinks into a solitary world of hatred and hostility.
The true-life drama about a handicapped Baltimore woman living on welfare who organized a sandlot baseball team and ended up coaching more than 50,000 boys and girls over nearly 40 years.
After a confrontation with one of his idols dashes his dreams of studying public speaking in college, Richard Pimentel joins the Army and ships off to Vietnam.
Alternative movies trailers for Skyward
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Skyward 1980 NBC Movie Promo
NBC promo for the Thursday November 20 1980 made-for-television film "Skyward" starring Bette Davis Howard Hesseman and Marion Ross.
SKYWARD | Invasion | Short Film Trailer
An epic trailer for the short film Skyward Invasion. This is another piece of the puzzle that makes up the Skyward mini series. The story of what happened is ...
SKYWARD (1980) - BETTE DAVIS Part 1
A touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies. Starring BETTE DAVIS - CLU GULAGER - MARION ROSS - SUZY ...
SKYWARD (1980) - BETTE DAVIS Part 2
Second part of a touching drama of a handicapped teenager and her quest for the freedom of the skies.
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