The Aeronauts is a fun film about high altitude balloon travel and science. Time period: 1862. Just need them to be hit by fish pulled from the sea by a storm.
You might try Sky Sailors: True stories of the Balloon era by David L. Bristow. 2010.
- The black moon: the first balloon flights (France, 1783)
- Queen of the night sky: Sophie and Jean-Piere Blanchard (France, 1784-1819)
- Splashdown in Lake Erie: John Steiner (United States, 1857)
- The children are gone!: Martha and David Harvey (United States, 1858)
- The long voyage: the flight of the balloon Atlantic (United States, 1859)
- To the top of the sky: Coxwell and Glaisher's record altitude (United Kingdom, 1862)
- The siege of Paris: the balloon-and-pigeon post (France, 1870-1871)
- The North Pole balloon: Salomon Andrees's expedition (Sweden and the Arctic Ocean, 1897)
- Parachute girl: Dolly Shepherd (United Kingdom, 1903-12).
As you can see, the listing for 1862 covers Coxwell and Glaisher's Record Altitude flight. So the Aeronauts covers their story. Even though Henry Coxwell and James Glaishier were both men... so facts don't matter?
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