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 ...

In unusual circumstances, scientists from different countries work together to achieve a common scie...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - a...
Comets pose one of the greatest threats to life on Earth - a threat that can only be countered if we...

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

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

A filmmaker returns to a house from his past where a great tragedy happened, in order to find a clos...

Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real i...
A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made fo...