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

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

The New Horizons team examines the latest findings and imagery from Pluto and the fringes of our sol...

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

LIVING IN THE AGE OF AIRPLANES offers a fresh perspective on a modern-day miracle that many of us ta...

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and i...

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

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

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...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

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

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

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

On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing to...
Documentary describing events leading up to the February 1996 shoot down by Cuban Air Force Migs of ...

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

Getting information about the enemy is vital in war, and today's aerial spies have science fiction c...

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite)...