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Starring: Across the Atlantic-Behind the

Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Binding: VHS Tape

EAN: 9780792290025

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC

ISBN: 079229002X

Label: Nat'l Geographic Vid

Manufacturer: Nat'l Geographic Vid

Number of Items: 1

Product Group: Video

Publisher: Nat'l Geographic Vid

Release Date: 2001-08-28

Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid

Title: National Geographic - Across the Atlantic: Behind The Lindbergh Legend

UPC: 727994700562

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Product Description: The story behind Charles Lindbergh's epic New York-Paris flight is well told in this documentary produced by National Geographic. Archival photographs and vintage newsreel footage are used to portray Lindbergh's early aviation career, and some carefully shot reenactments in which an actor portrays Lindbergh provide an intelligent look at just how daring his 1927 flight really was. The speedy construction of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is portrayed, and the challenges Lindbergh faced from better-financed competitors in the race to fly nonstop across the Atlantic are also detailed. The immense danger of heading out across the north Atlantic without a radio in what amounted to a flying gas tank is dramatically told. This is an intelligent and tightly focused look at how one very determined and brave man became an instant legend. --Robert J. McNamara