James Clavell · 1986 · thriller

James Clavell's 1986 epic of the Iranian Revolution. In the chaos of February 1979, as the Shah falls and Khomeini rises, the pilots of the British firm S-G Helicopters find themselves trapped - their aircraft and their Iranian lives suddenly forfeit. From Tehran to the burning oil fields of the south, they gamble everything on a daring, illegal escape by air across the Persian Gulf.

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   Tehran

   In February 1979, as the Shah flees and the revolution erupts, the pilots and staff of S-G Helicopters find their world coming apart - their machines, their livelihoods and their lives suddenly at risk.

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   Ahvaz

   Out at the southern oil fields around Ahvaz, the crews fly on amid mounting menace, ferrying men to the rigs while komitehs seize the airstrips and the country slides into revolutionary chaos.

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   Bandar Delam

   At the Gulf base of Bandar Delam, hemmed in by armed revolutionaries and forbidden to leave, the pilots realise they must run for it or lose their aircraft, their freedom and perhaps their lives.

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   Dubai

   In a secret gamble they point their overloaded helicopters across the Persian Gulf toward Dubai - flying low, low on fuel, hunted, betting everything on a single mad dash for the far shore.