The Secret Life of the World's Busiest Airport

Aug 11, 2018

1h 7m

★ 8.0

Overview

Each year over 100 million passengers pass through Hartfield Jackson Atlanta airport - making it the busiest in the world. With an extraordinary all-areas-pass, this film offers up a unique combination of jaw-dropping scale and surprisingly intimate stories, to build a picture of the daily challenges faced by some of its 63,000 staff.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Channel 5

Brinkworth Productions

The Secret Life of the World's Busiest Airport Trailers

Cast

Narrator

Jason Done

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The Secret Life of the World's Busiest Airport

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