Across the Pacific

Across the Pacific

2020 8.1 (0.1k) Age 19+

Tells the story of a great milestone in aviation history: the 1935 crossing of the Pacific Ocean by a Pan American Airways flying boat known as the China Clipper. The documentary series recounts the development of this technological innovation – led by Pan Am’s chief executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane engineer Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz – with dramatic re-enactments, interviews with historians and biographers, and archival photographs, newsreel clips and film.

Actors

Jim Powers,

Genres

History,

Streaming On

 

Countries (outside of the US)

Canada,

Seasons