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- The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.
- High schooler Alex Rogan conquers the Starfighter video game, only to find out it was just a test, and is transported to another planet. He has been recruited to join a team of the best starfighters to defend their world from the attack.
- Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous - perhaps deadly.
- The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
- At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
- When a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely.
- A tough-as-nails general (Gregory Peck as General Savage) takes over a B-17 bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape.
- Family man Roy Fehler joins the L.A.P.D. to make ends meet while finishing law school and is indoctrinated by seasoned veteran Kilvinski. As time goes on, Roy loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
- Charles Whitley travels from 1903 to 2020 where he meets Megan Turner and experiences a 21st Century Christmas.
- After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.
- Will's true life passion is to become a stand-up comedian. When given the opportunity to emcee a comedy show opening for his hero Billy G., he must decide if he wants to continue the life he has set up, or pursue his dream.
- The crew members of NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.
- Two miserable people find happiness together: a man dreaming of flying, and a woman dreaming of living.
- A veteran American flyer trains new recruits, including the acrophobic son of his dead war buddy. Complications arise when the younger man falls in love with his mentor's girl.
- KITTY HAWK definitively documents the gripping tale of hardship, perseverance and the true genius of Orville and Wilbur Wright. Follow the brothers through their epic and historic journey of discovery that culminated in the first successful manned flight. Neil Armstrong and John Glenn provide the voices of Orville and Wilbur. A national PBS broadcast.
- Despite her husband's doubts, a woman reaches out to her dead daughter with a psychiatrist's help.
- A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
- Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
- A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
- A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
- The stooges are the Wrong brothers, three inventors trying to finish building an airplane they can sell to the army and thereby avoid the draft. When their plane, the "Buzzard", turns out to be a flop, the boys are drafted into the army where they have trouble with a tough drill sergeant.
- "Monsters, Madmen and Machines: 80 Years of Science Fiction" was a retrospective on science fiction and fantasy films from early efforts like George Melies' "A Trip to the Moon" (1902) to George Lucas' "Star Wars" (1977).
- Aviation enthusiast Josephine rescues her suitor, Chubby, from an angry mob with the help of Slim and his airplane.
- The film is set in the near future, on August 22, 1970. A man sleeps in the New Mexico desert. He the pilot of the upcoming first flight to the Moon, and the rocket which will transport him there is waiting nearby. The narrator informs us that the man is called Jedediah Prentiss. He was born in 1938, graduated from college in 1959, and became a licensed rocket pilot in 1965. The narrator claims that this an insignificant name, and that nobody has ever heard of Ptentiss. Prentiss dreams and his identity changes through the dream. In 900 BC, he is Icarus. His father (an unnamed Daedalus) wakes him up and prepares him for a flight over the Aegean Sea, by use of wax wings. In 1783, he is one of the Montgolfier brothers in France. He and and his brothers prepare for their first flight with a hot air balloon over the Atlantic Ocean. In 1903, he is one of the Wright brothers. He and his brother prepare for their first flight with the Wright Flyer in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Back in 1970, Prentiss awakes and prepares for his space flight. A reporter asks him to identify himself. Prentiss seems to have forgotten his own name. He then identifies himself as "Icarus Montgolfier Wright". He claims to have been born in 900 BC, to have entered grammar school in Paris during 1783, and to have entered high-school in Kitty Hawk during 1903. He tells the reported that in 1970 he will graduate from the Earth to the Moon. He is also predicts that he will die in Mars during a 1999 expedition, and be buried there. With his new identity as the personification of humanity's pioneering spirit, Prentiss begins his flight to the Moon.
- When the East St. Louis High School graduating classes of 1923-24 got together for their fiftieth anniversary reunion, Darren McGavin recorded the event and turned it into a picture called "American Reunion."