The Conquest of the Air (1931)
History
Documentary
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Criterion Channel
Criterion Channel
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.
Cast
Frederick Culley
Roger Bacon
Laurence Olivier
Vincent Lunardi
Franklin Dyall
Jerome de Ascoli
Henry Victor
Otto Lilienthal
Hay Petrie
Tiberius Cavallo
John Turnbull
Von Zeppelin
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Charles Lefeaux
Louis Bleriot
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Bryan Powley
George Cayley
Alan Wheatley
Giovanni Alfonso Bor...
John Abbott
Jean-François Pilâtr...
Charles Frend
Narrator (voice)
Edward Ashley
(uncredited)
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Italo Balbo
Italo Balbo (archive...
Memo Benassi
Francesco Lama di Br...
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Denville Bond
Oliver of Malmesbury...