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• "The Air Mail Story"
  Excerpts from a1992 film by The Smithsonian Institution/ Atlas Video, Inc. [more info]

• "The Aeroplane: A Chronicle of Flight,"
  National Air & Space Museum 1974. Tom Crouch introduces a documentary of early flight. This film is currently playing at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
  [more info]
  
  
• The Machines of the Wright Brothers
  These three movies present virtual "first-hand" looks at the machines and demonstrate how they worked by showing them in action.
  • the 1899 Kite
  • the 1900 Glider
  • the 1901 Glider
    
  
  [more info]