Across the Pacific (2020)

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.

• First Air Date: 2020-05-18
• Last Air Date: 2020-06-01
• Total Seasons: 1
• Total Episodes: 3
• Episode Runtime: 60 min.
• Creator: Stephen Lyons