Travel into the world of aviation and explore the dreams of flight with the Smithsonian as they step into the unknown.

Charles Lindbergh lived a life of absolutes, never doubting his own abilities or the altitude of his...

It was November 12, 2014, at 5:03pm. Humanity had just accomplished a feat that will forever mark it...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

Today London, tomorrow Paris, the day after New York – the life of the "jetsetter." Long before the ...

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...

CERN and the University of California-Santa Barbara are collaborating in the search for the elusive ...

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

Doolittle's Raiders pull off a one-way bombing run over Tokyo and ditch their planes in and along th...

It's June 1942 and the world's fate is about to be decided by a handful of pilots and their untested...

NASA may have just gotten one step closer to the answering the question: are we alone? The Spitzer T...

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

National Geographic and NASA are sending you into space - live! For the first time ever, board the I...

Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...

Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real i...

Horizon visits state-of-the-art laboratories and uses CGI to recreate the science-fiction-worthy wea...

European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and his NASA colleague Reid Wiseman are launched int...