On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple of tight circles, ending in a perfect landing. The flight took less than two minutes, but it left spectators awestruck. While the combined talents of Wilbur and Orville Wright had produced the first plane capable of controlled flight , their distrust of others had almost cost them the credit for their invention. Now, having proved to the public that they had mastered the sky, the reserved brothers from the small town of Dayton, Ohio, became world celebrities.
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
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The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Pa...
The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...
Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted ...
The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...
In the 50s and 60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden ho...
Take a technological thrill ride The Magic of Flight takes you on a technological thrill ride faster...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
Shortly before dawn on August 21, 1992, six heavily armed U.S. marshals made their way up to the iso...
Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern histor...
In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...
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As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
An exhilarating documentary film that celebrates the unsung hero of aviation - the local airport - b...
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of ...