The Wright Stuff

Country

United States

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who built the first successful airplane. It follows their lives from childhood to their rise to fame after demonstrating their invention in France in 1908.

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What happens

The Wright Stuff is a 1996 television documentary film about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who invented the first successful motor-powered airplane. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now simply American Experience) documentary program, it recounts the lives of the Wright brothers from their early childhood in Ohio with dreams of flight to their subsequent fame after their successful 1908 demonstration in France. The film was written, produced, and directed by Nancy Porter, narrated by Garrison Keillor, and hosted by David McCullough, and was first aired on PBS in the United States on February 12, 1996. McCullough himself would later become interested in the brothers' story, writing his own book about the Wright family in 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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