On September 18, 1961, a plane carrying United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 others crashed near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). There were no survivors and it was immediately suspected that Hammarskjöld was assassinated. Hammarskjöld was a highly controversial figure due to his support for decolonizing Africa, and at the time of his death, he was en route to negotiate peace talks during the Congo Crisis. 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 horrific than anyone could have imagined. Nataleah Hunter-Young
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