Across the Pacific
TV ShowTitle | Across the Pacific |
User score | 5 |
Release date | May 18, 2020 |
Release date of last episode | Jun 1, 2020 |
Genre | |
Director | Stephen Lyons |
Production country | US |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 1 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 3 |
Run time | 60 min. |
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.