Across the Pacific: 1x3

Another Ocean

Following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airline builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz join forces to build an airline to South America and Trippe has dreams of conquering the world with international flights.

Seasons and episodes

Season 1 : Miniseries

May 18, 2020

1 - 1 : Airborne

May 18, 2020

1 - 2 : Latin Laboratory

May 25, 2020

1 - 3 : Another Ocean

Jun 01, 2020

Synopsis

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.