The Mystery of D.B. Cooper

John Dower | U.S.A. | 2020 | M

Australian Premiere

Given we’re currently living through the Golden Age of true crime documentaries, it’s rare that a case as unusual as that of D.B. Cooper should be sitting there, ripe for exploration. John Dower’s documentary feature The Mystery of D.B. Cooper looks at the fantastical true story of a man who in 1971 hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft while flying over the US, extorting some $200,000 USD in ransom – around $1.26M USD today with inflation – before parachuting to freedom. In an era where airline hijackings were bizarrely more commonplace than one would think, the D.B. Cooper story captured the hearts and minds of Americans for over forty years. In part, because the fate of the hijacker was never known.

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