Directed by: Johan Grimonprez
year: 1997 68 minutes
Buckle up for DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, the acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases.
- Genres:
- Cult / Shockumentary
- Documentary / Politics
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- Ephemera
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