A hilarious countdown of the black sheep of aviation, aircraft that have embarrassed their builders, enraged the owners and terrified their pilots. These are stories of aircraft that should have never been built, including highly imaginative concepts to “fly” tanks and jeeps directly onto the battlefield, a real flying saucer and starkly bizarre efforts to design and build a submarine that flies. We come to understand why these ideas were doomed from the start…

An educational film / Chevrolet advertisement that surveys skywriting.

Host Jack Perkins (of the A&E "Biography" series) takes to the skies to show us an aerial view of th...

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s...

A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, ...

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

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

After 10 years of tests and 12 billion Euros invested, the state-of-the-art Airbus jet completed its...
A film about the education of young aviators, which uses the natural interest of the youth in aviati...

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

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppe...

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

Concorde: A Supersonic Story follows the story of the most glamorous aeroplane ever built - told by ...

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...

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

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

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...

Follows the development of Canadair's super-executive jet. A totally new type of aircraft, it is fas...

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