01653cgm a2200265 4500 64387757 TxAuBib 20100628120000.0 091209s2009||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 024543641698 TxAuBib Amelia / Fox Searchlight Pictures and Avalon Pictures present a Mira Nair film ; produced by Ted Waitt, Kevin Hyman, Lydia Dean Pilcher ; written by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan ; directed by Mira Nair. Beverly Hills, Calif : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2009. 1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 111 min. Originally released as a motion picture in 2009. Hilary Swank, Richard Gere. 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 age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth. MPAA rating: PG; for some sensuality, language, thematic elements and smoking. 20100628. Earhart, Amelia 1897-1937 Drama. Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal) Drama. Women air pilots United States Drama. Historical films. Biographical films.