37 Season
396 Episode
American Experience - Season 8 Episode 9 Spy in the Sky
In the spring of 1960, Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Overnight, this top-secret plane became the most famous aircraft in the world. Behind the incident was a team of engineers and pilots who had raced against the clock to design, perfect and deploy a plane which could provide a high-tech peek behind the Iron Curtain.
- Year : 2024
- Country : United States of America
- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : PBS
- Keyword : biography, usa history, current affairs
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