Durante o voo transatlântico entre Nova Iorque e Londres, o US Air Marshall Bill Marks recebe uma série de misteriosas mensagens de texto, ordenando-lhe que instrua o governo para transferir 150 milhões de dólares para uma conta off-shore ou um passageiro será morto a cada 20 minutos. O que se segue é um trepidante jogo do gato e do rato com as vidas dos 146 passageiros reféns nesse avião.
Uma célebre autora faz uma viagem com algumas velhas amigas para se divertir e curar feridas antigas. O seu sobrinho junta-se a elas, bem como a sua nova agente literária, que está ansiosa para saber mais sobre o seu próximo livro.
Entre 20 e 21 de Maio de 1927, Charles Lindberg (James Stewart), um piloto de 25 anos, cruzou sozinho o Atlântico no primeiro vôo sem escalas de Nova York até Paris. A viagem durou 33 horas e meia, foi feita em um monomotor e a maioria das pessoas não acreditava no êxito desta travessia, pois seis pilotos morreram tentando. O filme narra este histórico acontecimento e, através de diversos flashbacks, são mostrados momentos marcantes da vida de Lindberg.
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII. Transatlantic is a historical drama television miniseries created by Anna Winger and Daniel Hendler, based on the 2019 novel The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer. The novel explores the historic Emergency Rescue Committee that operated in Marseilles, Spain, and Portugal in 1940 after the fall of France. The series includes or refers to well-known artists or scholars of the time who were saved by the Committee or interacted with it. The series closed the 2023 Series Mania festival in March, ahead of its Netflix premiere on 7 April 2023.
Aboard a replica of an 18th century ship, ten participants set sail from the port of La Rochelle, France. Their destination: Quebec City. Dressed in period attire, fed the typical fare, and obliged to travel as their ancestors once did.
Queen Mary, Normandie, Mauretania: These great ocean liners of the Atlantic were the largest and most opulent passenger ships ever built. It was as if the finest hotels and most magnificent estates of the Western World had been put to sea. Tour their elite staterooms and swimming pools, and the below-deck immigrant quarters. Hear the real stories of the people who built and boarded them. Visit their renowned ports of call. Follow the great ships as they are drafted into combat, and witness the haunting tragedies that led the Lusitania, Titanic, and Andrea Doria to their doom.
