TY - ADVS AU - Waitt,Ted AU - Hyman,Kevin AU - Pilcher,Lydia Dean AU - Bass,Ronald AU - Phelan,Anna Hamilton AU - Nair,Mira AU - Swank,Hilary AU - Gere,Richard AU - McGregor,Ewan ED - Fox Searchlight Pictures. ED - Avalon Pictures (Firm) ED - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. TI - Amelia U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2010/// CY - [Beverly Hills, Calif.] PB - 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment KW - Earhart, Amelia, KW - Putnam, George Palmer, KW - Women air pilots KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Air pilots' spouses KW - Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal) KW - Adventure and adventurers KW - Man-woman relationships N1 - Based on the books East to the dawn by Susan Butler and The Sound of wings by Mary S. Lovell; Originally released as a motion picture in 2009; Special features: Deleted scenes ("A social worker in Boston", "Amelia's fiancée before the Friendship Flight", "The queen of diamonds, Mabel Boll", "Arrival in Wales", "Dorothy Putnam", "Dorothy's departure", "George and Gene"; Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, Cherry Jones N2 - 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 ER -