At the time of this writing, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, transporting 227 passengers and 12 crew members from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, has been missing for months. An unprecedented international search was unable to locate any bodies or debris. According to the Aviation Society Network, more than 80 aircrafts have been declared "missing" since 1948--"Ghost Planes" that have literally vanished without a trace.
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A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on...
Historians and engineers investigate how Allied forces conspired to destroy Hitler's "supergun".
The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s...
Adolf Hitler's Nazi megalomania knew no limits. The most daring of his plans World War II involved G...
Spitfires were the nemesis of the Luftwaffe and the instrument which halted Hitler’s plans for invas...
At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first...
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant ef...
In Summer 2008, a mysterious submarine, German U-boat U-455 is discovered off the coast of Italy at ...
This documentary examines age-old questions about the existence of the Devil and good versus evil, t...
The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into se...
German-made documentary about Claude Dornier, the aeronautical engineer and founder of Dornier GmbH ...
An exceptional documentary which presents, for the first time colorized archives, on Charles Lindber...
Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley o...
Today London, tomorrow Paris, the day after New York – the life of the "jetsetter." Long before the ...
In the 21st century, commercial planes don’t just vanish. But in 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH37...
Two modern Red Arrows pilots take on the challenges faced by World War I pilots by performing photo ...
An account of the life and work of the famous Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía (1926-84) that seeks...
Panair do Brasil revives the story of the most important commercial aviation company in Brazil, betw...
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...