Dial HISTORY (1997)

An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 911 We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and 70s By the 1990s such characters were apparently no more replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster