Mayday: The Passenger Who Landed a Plane

Host Jack Perkins (of the A&E "Biography" series) takes to the skies to show us an aerial view of the state of Maine. From rocky coastlines to...

Brad and Barbara Washburn were filmed by National Geographic and RKO Pictures on their ascent of Mount McKinley in Alaska. The film is a pictorial...

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...

When the United States entered World War I, its Army Air Service lacked a combat-ready aircraft – a liability that prompted a search to find an...

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppelin waged an 18-month terror campaign on the...

Today London, tomorrow Paris, the day after New York – the life of the "jetsetter." Long before the climate crisis and flight shame, flying was...

A fresh perspective on a modern-day miracle that many of us take for granted: flying. Narrated by Harrison Ford and featuring an original score from...

Air Disasters exposes some painful truths behind the world of flight, using actual footage of real incidents to look at why planes crash; in...

June 6, 1944: The largest Allied operation of World War II began in Normandy, France. Yet, few know in detail exactly why and how, from the end of...

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration...

Newly released audio recordings of military and air traffic control conversations offer a moving perspective on 9/11 and the fateful minutes that...

Historians and engineers investigate how Allied forces conspired to destroy Hitler's "supergun".