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- Yul Brynner portrayed Air Rescue Service member MSgt. Mike Takashima in the 1964 film Flight from Ashiya.
- Pararescuemen from the 129th Rescue Squadron of the California Air National Guard located at Moffet Airfield in Sunnyvale, California, were featured in segments of the movie The Perfect Storm, based on the Sebastian Junger book of the same name.
- Pararescuemen rescued the survivors of the damaged Air Force One in the movie of the same name.
- In the film The Peacemaker (1997) an intelligence colonel, played by George Clooney, is taken into Russian airspace to retrieve stolen nuclear warheads by a USAF special operations team which includes PJs.
- Pararescuemen were featured in the IMAX documentary Operation Red Flag, a profile of an Air Force pilot at the fighter pilot training exercises of the same name.
- Pararescuemen supposedly rescued an F-22 Raptor pilot after the plane collided with Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jr in the movie, Iron Man. The audio line "Send Pararescue" can also be heard in the background among the commotion of the command post when a F-22 Raptor is lost in the movie. Also, in that movie Tony Stark is rescued after he was able to flee with his freshly developed Iron Man mk I from captivity of the Ten Rings. After crash landing in the desert and walking, his friend Lt-Colonel James Rhodes collects him on a search-and-rescue mission, accompanied by Pararescuemen.
- The Last Full Measure (in production), starring Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Andy García, Amy Madigan: Air Force Pararescueman William H. Pitsenbarger is awarded the Medal of Honor after a young Washington bureaucrat and fellow veterans of Operation Abilene get Congress to reconsider the legacy of his sacrifice. From a true story.
- In the film Black Hawk Down, a Combat Search and Rescue team, led by TSgt Tim Wilkenson of the Air Force Pararescue, were able to rope down to Super 61's crash site despite an RPG hit that crippled their helicopter.
- In the Discovery Channel series: Surviving the Cut, Pararescue trainees were featured. The episode was based on the "Extended Training Day" during the indoctrination course.
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