The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
• August 26th, 1982 • 2h 20min
Drama, Adventure
Overview
The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are never heard from again.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Fitzcarraldo
Released on: 1982-03-02
Drama, Adventure
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...
Enduring Love
Released on: 2004-10-29
Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless...
Elixir
Released on: 2004-10-22
Drama
Four young boys with immigrant backgrounds stumble upon the recipe for Elixir, a drink that will mak...
Mary Reilly
Released on: 1996-02-23
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Forever and Ever, Amen
Released on:
Music, Drama
A biopic about the life of country music legend Randy Travis.
Dempsey
Released on: 1983-09-28
History, Drama, TV Movie
Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of Am...
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Released on: 1942-07-20
War, Drama, History
About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war,...
We Are Moluccans
Released on: 2014-06-19
Drama, History
After witnessing a child's death during a violent clash, a former soccer player launches a youth tea...
Little Women
Released on: 1994-12-21
Drama, Romance
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Here Is Your Life
Released on: 1966-12-26
Drama, History
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...
Glory
Released on: 1989-12-15
Drama, History, War
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Infamous
Released on: 2006-10-13
Drama, Crime
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with co...
Karla
Released on: 2006-01-20
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka k...
The Bad Poet
Released on: 2021-05-20
History, Drama
1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...
The Yellow Tie
Released on: 2025-11-14
Music, Drama, Adventure, History
The extraordinary life of Sergiu Celibidache, from his childhood in Romania to his exile in pursuit ...
Rosa Bonheur
Released on:
Drama, History
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...
The Rabbit Garden
Released on:
Drama
Jerzy Kosiński, author of The Painted Bird and Being There, sees his life and literary career unrave...
Zátopek
Released on: 2021-08-26
Drama
Autumn 1968, the Australian running record holder Ron Clarke is coming to Prague, hoping that his ol...
Guo Ming Yi
Released on: 2011-07-15
Drama
In 2011, a movie biography of Guo Mingyi was Produced. The movie was directed by Chen Guoxing and Wa...
Gandhi
Released on: 1982-12-01
Drama, History
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...