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

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

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

Few aircraft have attracted more attention than the ominous black supersonic jet that for years has ...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

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

In the year 1957 the cold war expands to space. The Soviet-Union sends Sputnik as the first manmade ...

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

The film features amazing scenes of places never before seen gathered by key space missions that cul...

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

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

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

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

A GCSE short film project studying depictions of outer space in movies.

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

An epic journey around Mars — built from real satellite and rover data — revealing the red planet as...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Ven...

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