The Conquest of the Air

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.

• Alexander EswayDirector
• Zoltan KordaDirector
• John Monk SaundersDirector
• Alexander ShawDirector
• John Monk SaundersWriter
• Hugh GrayWriter
• Peter BezencenetWriter
• Donald TaylorDirector

• Frederick CulleyRoger Bacon
• Laurence OlivierVincent Lunardi
• Franklin DyallJerome de Ascoli
• Henry VictorOtto Lilienthal
• Hay PetrieTiberius Cavallo
• John TurnbullVon Zeppelin
• Charles LefeauxLouis Bleriot
• Bryan PowleyGeorge Cayley
• Alan WheatleyGiovanni Alfonso Borelli
• John AbbottJean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
• Charles FrendNarrator (voice)
• Edward Ashley(uncredited)