Skyjacked

Skyjacked (1972) is a Cold War–era thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by John Guillermin and starring Charlton Heston as the captain of a Boeing 707. A Vietnam veteran with a grudge seizes control of a Los Angeles–to–Minneapolis flight, demands a course change to Anchorage and then onward to the Soviet Union. There is a bomb on board. Nobody knows who planted it — or who the hijacker is.

Heston plays it straight and tight: no grandstanding, just a pilot working the problem under conditions he can't fully see. The ensemble includes Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Walter Pidgeon and Susan Dey. The film landed in theaters while real hijackings were spiking across American aviation, which gave it an immediacy that holds up as a document of early-seventies paranoia. Stream Skyjacked (1972) online on iFILM.