This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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as Roger Bacon
DeceasedBorn: March 9, 1879
Died: November 3, 1942
Age at death: 63
as Vincent Lunardi
DeceasedBorn: May 22, 1907
Died: July 11, 1989
Age at death: 82
as Jerome de Ascoli
DeceasedBorn: February 3, 1870
Died: May 8, 1950
Age at death: 80
as Otto Lilienthal
DeceasedBorn: October 2, 1892
Died: March 15, 1945
Age at death: 52
as Tiberius Cavallo
DeceasedBorn: July 16, 1895
Died: July 30, 1948
Age at death: 53
as Von Zeppelin
DeceasedBorn: November 5, 1880
Died: February 23, 1956
Age at death: 75
as Louis Bleriot
DeceasedBorn: January 14, 1909
Died: May 5, 1979
Age at death: 70
as George Cayley
DeceasedBorn: September 16, 1971
Died: December 18, 1962
as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
DeceasedBorn: April 19, 1907
Died: August 30, 1991
Age at death: 84
as Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
DeceasedBorn: June 5, 1905
Died: May 24, 1996
Age at death: 90
as Narrator (voice)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as (uncredited)
DeceasedBorn: August 12, 1904
Died: May 5, 2000
Age at death: 95
as Italo Balbo (archive footage) (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Francesco Lama di Brescia (uncredited)
DeceasedBorn: June 19, 1886
Died: February 24, 1957
Age at death: 70
as Oliver of Malmesbury (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Tom Black (archive footage) (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Latham's Manager (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Zoroastro (uncredited)
DeceasedBorn: October 21, 1916
Died: March 29, 1974
Age at death: 57
as Arthur Clouston (archive footage) (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Paul Codos (archive footage) (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as (uncredited)
DeceasedBorn: January 29, 1911
Died: July 4, 2005
Age at death: 94
as (uncredited)
DeceasedBorn: September 21, 1906
Died: February 18, 1978
Age at death: 71
as Amelia Earhart (archive footage) (uncredited)
DeceasedBorn: July 24, 1897
Died: January 5, 1939
Age at death: 41
as (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Dr. John Jeffries (uncredited)
DeceasedBorn: January 4, 1897
Died: December 19, 1983
Age at death: 86
as Jean-Pierre Blanchard (uncredited)
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as (uncredited)
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as Boy (uncredited)
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as Orville Wright (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Bert Hinkler (archive footage) (uncredited)
AliveBirth date not on record.
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