The Wright Stuff

The Wright Stuff is a 1996 television documentary film about Orville and Wilbur Wright, the brothers who invented the first successful motor-powered airplane. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now simply American Experience) documentary program, it recounts the lives of the Wright brothers from their early childhood in Ohio with dreams of flight to their subsequent fame after their successful 1908 demonstration in France. The film was written, produced, and directed by Nancy Porter, narrated by Garrison Keillor, and hosted by David McCullough, and was first aired on PBS in the United States on February 12, 1996. McCullough himself would later become interested in the brothers' story, writing his own book about the Wright family in 2015. Interviewees Joseph Corn, historian Tom Crouch, National Air and Space Museum John Gillikin, national park service Peter Jakab, National Air and Space Museum Ivonette Wright-Miller, niece Robert Wohl, historian Wilkinson Wright, grand-nephew Release "The Wright Stuff" originally aired on PBS as part of The American Experience documentary program on February 12, 1996.