The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978)
December 17, 1978Release Date
The Winds of Kitty Hawk (1978)
December 17, 1978Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
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
Kathryn Walker
Kate Wright
Eugene Roche
Bishop Milton Wright
John Hoyt
Prof. Samuel Langley
Lew Brown
Harlan Mumford
Joseph Bernard
Mayor of New York
Carole Tru Foster
Agnes Osborne
Dabbs Greer
Ace Hutchin
William Kelley
Writer
Mo Malone
Elizabeth Mayfield
Jeb Rosebrook
Writer
Lawrence Schiller
Producer
Robert Casper
Man
Tom Lawrence
Doctor
Charles Bernstein
Composer
Ross Durfee
William Howard Taft
Dennis Dalzell
Cinematographer
John A. Martinelli
Editor
Charles Macaulay
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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, the Wright Flyer. 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.
The film presents the brothers' lives in dramatic vignettes sometimes historically rearranged. The film makes a claimer at the beginning stating that dramatic license had been taken but for the most part their story is told chronologically.
In 2012, the film became available on DVD from MGM Limited Edition.