Mysteries and Myths - Disappearances DVD

For everyone who believes that fact is stranger than fiction there can be nothing in the world more fascinating that the search for the truth behind the most extraordinary mysteries and myths of the Twentieth Century. Tales of extraordinary courage awesome misfortune or unbelievable luck that have for countless years defied logic and explanation. With the help of rare and previously undiscovered archive film it is possible to bring to light a fascinating new perspective on these compelling and unpredictable enigmas.The Amelia Earhart Mystery: Amelia Earhart was the... all American heroine f the 1930's. Her barnstorming flights across America the Atlantic and the rest of the world had inspired a generation but suddenly on the last leg of her Pacific crossing on her ultimate round-the-world trip she and her co-pilot disappeared over Japanese occupied territory. Had she been on a spying mission for the US Government? Why were no traces of her aircraft found? Had she been captured by the Japanese and then executed for her part in an elaborate intelligence gathering mission? - or was she simply the victim of exhaustion and a navigation error?The Lindberg Baby Mystery:Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean single handed. His celebrity soon produced an attractive wife and young son who kept the family in the newspaper headlines. Mysteriously on the night of 1 March 1932 twenty -month-old Charles Lindbergh Junior was snatched from his bedroom cot at the family mansion in Hopewell New Jersey. Despite ransom notes and the payment of money the young child was found murdered and the trail led to a German carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann who went to the electric chair for the killing. However he must have had accomplices. Should three people have been executed - not one?The Anastasia Mystery:When Nicholas II Alexandra and the Russian royal children were executed by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinberg at the end of World War I there was talk of not all the children being killed. In particular one daughter - Anastasia - was said to have survived. In the mid-twenties a young woman was fished from a German canal suffering from amnesia. Her name was Anna Anderson and she became the possible claimant to the Romanov fortune. Many believed her stories of the Russian court but it was only after her death and the use of DNA sampling that the full truth emerged. [show more]

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