The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie (1994)

Original title

The Maltese Double Cross

Directed by

Allan Francovich

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 37m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. It challenges the official account of the disaster and details the filmmaker's alternative theory about who was responsible.

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What happens

The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie is a documentary film about the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Produced, written, and directed by Allan Francovich and financed by Tiny Rowland, the film was released by Hemar Enterprises in November 1994. With a controversial premise, it was immediately threatened with legal action by lawyers acting for a US government official, and the British government prevented screenings at the 1994 London Film Festival, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and at several universities. But Labour MP Tam Dalyell ignored libel warnings and went ahead and showed the film at the House of Commons on 16 November 1994. Though it was never widely distributed, the film stirred up a great deal of controversy – particularly in the United Kingdom. Reviews of the film in major UK publications were mostly negative, even as they said that the film revealed certain problems in the mainstream account of the Lockerbie bombing. The film came in for fierce criticism from some American family members of victims of Pan Am 103 and from the governments of Britain and the United States. Other (mainly British) family members endorsed the conclusions of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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