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

A short film originally filmed and produced by the Photographic Division of the Avro Aircraft Compan...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

What if you could get behind the wheel and race through space? We scale down the Solar System to the...

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...

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...

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

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

A celebration of those still flying the last remaining Grumman Albatross, a seaplane from a long-los...

Wings Over Water tells the fascinating story of naval aviation's critical role in making the U.S. a ...

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

A new age of space exploration, and exploitation, is dawning. But surprisingly, some of the boldest ...

It is the epic of the heroes of the first century of aviation, since the flight of the first plane o...

Some 220 miles above Earth lies the International Space Station, a one-of-a-kind outer space laborat...

Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the myste...
A short documentary about Fritz Lang's film 'Frau im Mond', and its relation to the science and hist...

In one single, epic camera move we journey from Earth's surface to the outermost reaches of the univ...

An exhilarating documentary film that celebrates the unsung hero of aviation - the local airport - b...

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