This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Frederick Culley
as Roger Bacon
Laurence Olivier
as Vincent Lunardi
Franklin Dyall
as Jerome de Ascoli
Henry Victor
as Otto Lilienthal
Hay Petrie
as Tiberius Cavallo
John Turnbull
as Von Zeppelin
Charles Lefeaux
as Louis Bleriot
Bryan Powley
as George Cayley
Alan Wheatley
as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
John Abbott
as Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier
Charles Frend
as Narrator (voice)
Edward Ashley
as (uncredited)
