The Winds of Kitty Hawk
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Director E. W. Swackhamer Music director Charles Bernstein Country United States | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama, History Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date December 17, 1978 (1978-12-17) Writer William Kelley, Jeb Rosebrook Cast Michael Moriarty (Wilbur Wright), David Huffman (Orville Wright), Tom Bower (William Tate), Robin Gammell (H.A. Toumlin), Scott Hylands (Glenn Curtiss), John Randolph (Alexander Graham Bell)Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie Similar movies Tombstone , J. Edgar , Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , Wyatt Earp , The Wolf of Wall Street , My Week with Marilyn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Winds of Kitty Hawk is a 1978 American made-for-television biographical film directed by E. W. Swackhamer about the Wright brothers and their invention of the first successful powered heavier-than-air flying machine. It's a tribute to the brothers and was broadcast on December 17, 1978, the 75th anniversary of their famous 1903 first aeroplane flight. It is one of several made-for-television films about historical people in aviation produced in the 1970s, including The Amazing Howard Hughes, Amelia Earhart and The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case.
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The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged. The film makes a claimer at the beginning stating that dramatic license being taken but for the most part their story is told chronologically.
In 2012, the film became available on DVD from MGM Limited Edition.
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