The Sky’s Edge

Synopsis

On March 14, 1915, the city of San Francisco honored its hometown hero. Two hundred and fifty thousand people have turned out to watch the most famous man in America Lincoln Beachey fly his new monoplane. Before he takes off, a local reporter sits down with him for what will become the last interview of his life. Beachey did things in the air that had never been done — Niagara Falls, the first loop, maneuvers that defied every understanding of what was possible. He did them in front of crowds that came by the hundreds of thousands to watch him try. Thirty-seven men died attempting to follow him. Their deaths ended his first career.

The Sky's Edge moves between the hangar in 1915 and the life that brought Lincoln there — a San Francisco boyhood, years with dirigible barnstormer Tom Baldwin, the 1906 earthquake, the transition to airplanes, the road years that made him a legend and broke something in him, and the woman who understood him better than he understood himself.

The film opens where it ends — Lincoln inverted over the Bay, a quarter million people holding their breath. The audience knows from the first frame where this is headed. Every scene carries that weight.

This is a prestige biographical drama with spectacular aerial sequences, a genuine American hero, and a story the screen has never told.