Season 1
2020 | 3 Episodes
Across The Pacific
History
United States
English- 1 Season (3 Episodes)
- 2020 - 2020
- Ended
This is a 3 part series from PBS, 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
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This is a 3 part series from PBS, 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.
Country: United States
Type: unscripted
Status: Ended
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2020
Also Known As: Across the Pacific, Die Pan Am Story
Genres
Plot Keywords
history
pan american airways
archival photograph
year 1909
reference to louis bleriot
year 1913
reference to roland garros
archive footage
plane crash on takeoff
sikorsky s 38 flying boat
year 1927
orteig prize
newspaper headline
le bourget field
cheering crowd
ticker tape parade
reference to wilbur wright
statue of liberty
reference to the vanderbilt family
reference to the rockefellers
reference to the whitney family
barnstorming
air show
aerobatics
world war one
airmail
airco dh.4
long island airways
seaplane
golfing
reference to elizabeth stettinius
reference to john harper trumbull
colonial air transport
fokker f.vii
reference to anthony fokker
love letter
lindy hop dancing
international airmail route
reference to henry harley 'hap' arnold
reenactment
negotiator
exclusive landing rights
reference to gerardo machado y morales
key west airport
fairchild fc 2 float plane
reference to cy caldwell
war surplus airplane
reference to rene paul fonck
reference to andre priester
year 1901
year 1919
radio corporation of america
year 1925
biplane
radio signal beacon
year 1928
aerial navigation
compass
loop antenna
direction finder
poor visibility
water landing
radio transmitter
visionary
government subsidy
monroe doctrine
reference to james monroe
sociedad colombo alemana de transportes aeros 'scadta'
reference to peter paul von bauer
panama canal
reference to francis kellogg
reference to herbert hoover
reference to john a hambleton
rko radio pictures
reference to anne morrow lindbergh
reference to edwin charles musick
reference to basil lee rowe
west indian aerial express
collusion
negotiation
pan american grace airways 'panagra'
grace steamship company
new york rio and buenos aires line 'nyrba'
1929 stock market crash
reference to ralph ambrose o'neill
pipe smoking
sikorsky ilya muromets
christening an airplane
sikorsky s 40 flying boat 'american clipper'
naval theme
backgammon table
in flight meal
air tourism
reference to fred astair
reference to ginger rogers
reference to merian c. cooper
reference to katharine hepburn
reference to amelia earhart
reference to franklin d. roosevelt
military intervention
year 1933
good neighbor policy
rio de janeiro brazil
reference to delores del rio
reference to glenn luther martin
sikorsky s 42 flying boat
martin m 130 flying boat
sketching on a menu
wing flap
variable pitch propeller
year 1934
adcock antenna
dole race
reference to james drummond dole
pacific ocean
hong kong
guam
wake island
hawaii
midway island
world's shortest railroad
atoll
lagoon
reference to james aloysius farley
reference to william lendrum 'billy' mitchell
manchuria
reference to nobumasa suetsugu
foreign policy
reference to william steven 'bill' grooch
freighter north haven
test flight
year 1935
tractor
laysan albatross
archival nature video
practice run
alameda california
winds aloft
reference to frederick joseph 'fred' noonan
reference to manuel luis quezon y molina
reference to vic wright
barge
reference to willian justin 'bill' mullahey
flight test
china clipper
press conference
48 star american flag
boy scout
golden gate bridge
san francisco oakland bay bridge
international date line
san francisco california
isolation
tyranny of distance
reference to pat o'brien
reference to humphrey bogart
warner brothers
boeing 314
globalization
mercator projection map
year 1941
color archival footage
airplane crash
helicopter
boeing 377 stratocruiser
boeing 707
jet engine
year 1949
year 1958
year 1970
boeing 747
going out of business
philippines
reference to gene raymond
reference to irving glover
Company Credits
Production Co: Lone Wolf Documentary Group, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
