By the mid 1980s, all of the aviation records that had so challenged the imaginations of pilots and the public alike had been achieved… except for one. Lindbergh had crossed the Atlantic. Aircraft had flown to both poles. Even the vast Pacific

Frank Luke Draws His Sidearm

Jul 6th, 2021 51m 32s

Frank Luke was America’s second highest scoring ace in World War One. Over the course of twelve furious days, he shot down 17 enemy aircraft, many of them observation balloons, by far the most important, the most difficult and the most heavily

Ernest Evans Orders Left Full Rudder

Jul 5th, 2021 1h 4m

As a young officer on an obsolete destroyer in the opening days of World War Two, Ernest Evans had watched a combined American, British and Australian fleet get decimated by the seemingly unstoppable Imperial Japanese Navy. Forced to cover the

Booker T. Washington Catches the Late Train

Jul 4th, 2021 56m 45s

Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington’s relentless pursuit of an education would eventually bring him such renown that he would become the first Black American ever invited to a private dinner at the White House. Surr

John Paul Jones Sails Back from the War

Jul 3rd, 2021 55m 31s

John Paul was the son of a Scottish gardener, denied a career as an officer in the Royal Navy due to his humble origins. Falsely accused of murder —twice — he abandoned a career as a successful merchant captain and ran to Fredericksburg, Virgin

Jimmy Doolittle Releases the Brakes

Jul 2nd, 2021 1h 6m

On the morning of December 8th, 1941, the vaunted US Pacific fleet lay deep in the mud at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Americans were stunned, but this was just the beginning, as the Japanese rampaged throughout the Pacific, seemingly unstoppabl

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Calls for the Bayonet

Jul 1st, 2021 53m 42s

On July 3, 1863, Union forces easily took up a defensive line along a small rise call Cemetery Ridge in the peaceful Pennsylvania crossroad village called Gettysburg. But the extreme far left of the Union line was, in the parlance of the time,

America's Forgotten Heroes Launch Trailer

Oct 27th, 2020 1m 10s

We are the children of heroes.These are the stories of seven men whose courage, determination skill are so remarkable that it is nearly impossible to credit them as true. But the stories are true. These men were real. These things actually happ