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Just after the close of World War One, pilots Charles Kingsford Smith and Keith Anderson face hard times as they try to gain funds for their attempt to be the first men to fly across the Pacific Ocean.

'An adventurer...a crusader...a fighter...a lover...Against impossible odds, he went out to explore the last uncharted area. The Sky.

One of Australia's great period dramas, A Thousand Skies charts the life of Charles Kingford Smith, from his war years to his spell in Hollywood as a stunt flyer, his first pilot job at Australian Airlines in 1924, and the realisation of his dream to fly the Pacific. Forced down in the North Australian wilderness when attempting a record flight to England, the fast living Kingford-Smith risked death a thousand times in a thousand skies to achieve the impossible!'

Source: Publisher's blurb, ABC DVD