From Cold War hover rigs to the dust-stripped battlefields of Afghanistan, the Harrier Jump Jet redefined the boundaries of combat aviation. Developed by British engineers with the revolutionary Pegasus engine, the Harrier became the world’s first operational fixed-wing V/STOL aircraft—capable of...

Eugene Castle was a newsreel photographer starting around 1925. In 1937 he started marketing 8mm and 16mm movies for home use, one of the first to do so, and his company was immensely successful until home video made it obsolete by 1984.
He started out selling newsreel compilations, many of which...

The film was directed by Edward Steichen with William Wyler as an uncredited co-director. The battle footage is absolutely first-rate, much of it captured by automated cameras directly mounted on the aircraft guns.
The carrier is never named in the film because of wartime restrictions, but was la...