Movies: Wright brothers

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first successful motor-operated airplane....

Officially, the Wright Brothers flew first in 1903. But the Australian aviation expert John Brown argues that German born Gustave Whitehead flew in Connecticut in 1901. To display the Wright flyer, the Smithsonian Museum agreed that it will never cla...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine flight: a smooth take-off banking into a couple of tight circles, ending in a perfect landing. The flight took less than two minutes, but it left spe...

A Wright Brothers biopic, focusing on how the two bicycle mechanics headed to the windy hills of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in pursuit of their dream of becoming the first in flight....