Melvin & Jean: An American Story

Melvin & Jean: An American Story 2012 Released

Directed by Maia Wechsler

Documentary · 59 min

 

Melvin & Jean: An American Story 2012 Released

Directed by Maia Wechsler

Documentary · 59 min

 

When Melvin and Jean McNair hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria in 1972 with their two babies on board, they called it an act of political resistance. The hijacking was also an act of desperation committed by two people in their early twenties who saw no other way to escape what they felt was the constant state of racial oppression in America. Living in Paris forty years after the... see more

When Melvin and Jean McNair hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria in 1972 with their two babies on board, they called it an act of political resistance. The hijacking was also an act of desperation committed by two people in their early twenties who saw no other way to escape what they felt was the constant state of racial oppression in America. Living in Paris forty years after the... see more

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RUNTIME
N/A min
RELEASED
Nov 9, 2012
COUNTRY
US
LANGUAGE
EN
SPOKEN
English
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