On September 18, 1961, a plane carrying United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) while he was en route to negotiate peace talks during the Congo Crisis. There were no survivors, and it was immediately suspected that Hammarskjöld was assassinated. Now, fifty years of unanswered questions and conspiracy theories lead offbeat journalist and documentarian Mads Brügger to reopen the case. With help from a Swedish private investigator, Brügger traverses the continent, scouring documents and interviewing witnesses, hoping to finally unearth the truth. But the answers they eventually find are far more sinister than anyone could have imagined.

In English. French, Swedish, Bemba and Danish with English subtitles

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