After dubbing spaceflight a historical feat, the narration existentially suggests that it can be used to discover extraterrestrial life, and uses it to depict the human imagination as limitless, which is credited to the philosophical awakening given by the vertical view of the world. To Fly! ends with the launch of the Saturn IB in the ApolloвЂ“Soyuz mission at the Kennedy Space Center on July 15, 1975. After wide-body aircraft, ultralight aviation was invented. With airlines, flying became a travel medium, and access to the American territory expands westward beyond the mainland. Military aviation was later invented, which formed flight demonstration squadrons like the Blue Angels. The Roaring Twenties saw the invention of barnstorming, cited to further access to aviation among Americans. Mechanical aircraft was later invented unlike the balloon, there are more controls.

Although hot-air-balloons were revolutionary, the majority of Americans still used horses thanks to the human imagination, the faster trains were invented, then the more accessible cars. It says that the newfound vertical angle of the world 'was like the opening of a new eye', allowing humans to reach places previously untouched and extend the human limits, an act once considered 'godlike.' The desire to fly also inspired the creation of skyscrapers. The film then chronicles the history of aviation, beginning with hot-air-balloons. Until today, what birds alone were meant to take the skyД«ut now, because of men like me, all men of Earth shall flyД«eyond the clouds, twixt thunder and the Sun! To Fly! received universal critical and audience acclaim particularly for its cinematography, editing, and narrative hailed a Washingtonian icon and received various accolades. Amassing a large following and notable in its role to the growing popularity of museum IMAX theaters, it remained the highest-grossing giant-screen documentary for a long period and broke various other records. It also set MacGillivray as a major IMAX filmmaker. The film was deemed significant for introducing a vast audience to the then-new format, and its influence was acknowledged by IMAX filmmakers alike, making it inducted into the National Film Registry and the IMAX Hall of Fame. A 20th-anniversary special edition was later released in 1996. It was later released in non-IMAX formats and on home media. Like other Bicentennial films, it was initially scheduled for only a year of screening, however as popularity surged, public outcry prompted everlasting screening. Though over a year in the making and with a rough production, the film had a relatively low budget and was finished on schedule. The film was edited by MacGillivray and Freeman themselves, while the score was composed by Bernardo Segall. Creation of the ending space sequence prompted experimentations due to the limits of the IMAX cameras and format. The three cameras were rigorously modified to fit with MacGillivray and Freeman's intentions. Due to IMAX's giant-screen nature, several filmmaking rules and techniques were implemented for immersion and clarity. from a draft by the latter, by infusing humor to tell audiences that the film is not littered with technical jargon, as instructed by Collins. MacGillivray and Freeman expanded the story of To Fly! 's treatment given by the Smithsonian Institution and Francis Thompson, Inc. The idea of the film dates back to 1970, and was revisited four years later following then-NASM director Michael Collins' interest in an IMAX theater.

The film explores themes of finding national identity and human's innate relationship with aviation. It chronicles the history of aviation in the country and how the American imagination helped it revolutionize humanity, with a narration written by Thomas McGrath. To Fly! is a 1976 American short docufiction film by Greg MacGillivray and Jim Freeman of MacGillivray Freeman Films as the premiere film of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) IMAX theater, opened for the museum's current building, celebrating the United States Bicentennial.

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