L’histoire se déroule au moment où l’Aéropostale met en place les vols de nuit en Amérique latine. John Barrymore incarne le personnage de Rivière, responsable intransigeant du réseau aéropostal. Clark Gable joue le pilote Fabien qui affronte la mort chaque fois qu’il achemine le courrier et Helen Hayes son épouse. Le pilote est marié depuis six semaines. Mais chaque seconde l’éloigne un peu plus de son épouse, de sa voix, de son sourire. Aux commandes de son avion, Fabien apporte le courrier de Patagonie à Buenos Aires. Une tornade sévit sur la Cordillère des Andes lorsque le contact radio est rompu….
After 10 years of tests and 12 billion Euros invested, the state-of-the-art Airbus jet completed its first commercial flight in January 2015. We will discover how it was conceived and built, and explore its technological innovations every step of the way.
The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the Skylab program back to its very conception reveals the cornerstone of human space exploration.
A British expeditionary team attempt a dangerous, world-first circumnavigation of the Earth in an 80-year-old vintage World War II fighter to inspire a new generation through the freedom of flight.
Martin Shaw takes a fresh look at one of the most famous war stories of them all. The actor, himself a pilot, takes to the skies to retrace the route of the 1943 raid by 617 Squadron which used bouncing bombs to destroy German dams. He sheds new light on the story as he separates the fact from the myth behind this tale of courage and ingenuity. Using the 1955 movie The Dam Busters as a vehicle to deconstruct the raid, he tries to piece together a picture of perhaps the most daring attack in the history of aviation warfare.
This much anticipated sequel to the 2020 hit film, TOMCAT TALES continues the story and legacy of the one fighter Hollywood loves to feature in their blockbuster movies. MORE TOMCAT TALES showcases phenomenal F-14 footage and iconic cast of officers as they discuss their extraordinary experiences in the legendary Tomcat.
This documentary recounts the history of modern aviation (primarily in Britain) from roughly 1900 until the inter-war period, using old monochrome footage of original aircraft, contemporary color footage of replica planes in flight as well as a number of photographs of famous aviators.
In 1938 an airfield was built at the northeastern-most end of America, the descent went slowly but incessantly through the Cold War. This is the story of how its inhabitants gradually moved away from the great world stage and had to reinvent themselves as well as their home town.
Normandy, 1905. The picnic is finished. A group of middle-class people in their Sunday best, get ready to go home. There is one last photo to be taken, but somebody is missing
Highly interesting documentary Concorde's Last Flight tells the story of this eventually ill fated super plane, which could fly from London to New York in three and a half hours and travelled at twice the speed of sound but it was it's final flight and the crash just outside Paris of Air France Flight AF4590 that ultimately sealed its fate. Ten years later the French Courts are still trying to discover just what happened and who, if anyone, was to blame.
The fascinating history of the U.S. Air Force comes to life via vintage footage culled from official Air Force newsreels that were created to educate the public during wartime. Formed in World War I as a tiny airborne offshoot of the Army's American Expeditionary Force, the division subsequently grew into its own armed services branch and became the largest modern air force in the world.
A documentary covering the history of TWA, from its origins to its ultimate sale to American Airlines.
Sur la base d’archives amateurs ou professionnelles, d’extraits de films de fiction, ce documentaire retrace l’épopée extraordinaire de la liaison postale entre Toulouse et Santiago du Chili. Du premier vol réalisé le 25 décembre 1918 jusqu’à la constitution d’Air France en 1933, ce film a pour principale ambition de mettre en relief les deux principaux promoteurs de la Ligne : le célèbre Pierre-Georges Latécoère et le méconnu Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont. Sans oublier Didier Daurat, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jean Mermoz, Henri Guillaumet et tous les autres, pilotes, mécaniciens, chefs d’escale, connus ou anonymes, qui ont tous permis à L’Aéropostale de marquer l’histoire.