Air & Space Smithsonian: Dreams of Flight - Higher Faster Farther

A brief history of British aviation and the development of both civil and military aircraft. Made for the Festival of Britain.

At any given moment hundreds of people are soaring above us in a 747. From the moment the very first jumbo jet took off in 1969, it has been the...

For early aviators, conquering the forces of gravity was a daunting challenge. But black aviators had an additional challenge - conquering the forces...

Thirty distinguished astronomers are visited at their observatories throughout the world in this comprehensive report of astronomical theories,...

Dramatic, moving and deeply human, ARMSTRONG offers the definitive life story of Neil Armstrong: from his childhood in Ohio to his first steps on the...

Documentary about aviation

The De Havilland Comet was the world's first passenger jet airliner. But less than two years into service, two aircraft blew up in mid-air, killing...

Panair do Brasil revives the story of the most important commercial aviation company in Brazil, between 1930 and 1965, with its commercial daring in...

The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard...

On 21 December 1988 a Pan Am 747 jet exploded over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie. On the 25th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on...

The X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes....

John Glenn goes on another journey into outer space for tests on how old age is affected there. His whole life is chronicled in this informative...

Documentary following researchers as they try to take the first-ever picture of a black hole. They must travel the globe to build a revolutionary...

On January 26, 1950, a US Airforce troop plane left Anchorage for Montana with 44 people on board. The crew of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster #2469 was...

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

What if there was a museum that contained every type of life form in the universe? This experience takes you on a tour through the possible forms...

Travel alongside the astronauts as they deploy and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, soar above Venus and Mars, and find proof of new planets and...

As modern societies rely more on high-speed Internet via satellites, a new space race is reshaping global geopolitics. Elon Musk's Starlink, with...