Dayton, Ohio, bicycle mechanic brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright confound the establishment when, against all odds, they invent a practical flying machine and fly it off the coast of North Carolina in 1903. Then, they must battle their own government when the Smithsonian Institution wages a war of lies and propaganda against them, which threatens to ruin their reputations, their business, and their hard-won place in world history.—Anonymous