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Killing Jimmy Hoffa (2014) is a English movie. Alan Bradley has directed this movie. George Anastasia,David Ashenfelter,Alan Bradley,James Buccellato are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2014. Killing Jimmy Hoffa (2014) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance is one of the great crimes of the century. Despite a massive Federal investigation spanning 4 decades and hundreds of suspects, only the general contours of the crime are known. In the American mythology Hoffa is both hero and villain; a self-made man who ran the nation's largest union and was so beloved by the rank and file Teamsters he represented that they supported him as union president even as he served time in prison. Hoffa's name is synonymous with corruption thanks to Bobby Kennedy's campaign against him, but the truth is much more complex. Hoffa's glory years coincided with the golden age of the Union movement and the American economy; he also was enmeshed in the Machiavellian world of organized crime. "Killing Jimmy Hoffa" tells the whole story for the first time, using exclusive interviews, never before seen news footage and photographs, and revealing the real story of the day he died.
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Killing Jimmy Hoffa (2014) Reviews
Interesting
This is the first documentary I've seen about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. And I found it to be interesting. Of course, we'll never know for sure what exactly happened. But watching this I learned that he'd threatened the Kennedy's. And right before his disappearance he was scheduled to testify before a Senate committee on the assassination of JFK. And it makes me wonder if he possibly "disappeared" intentionally. We'll never know. But I think one thing's for sure. If he was "disposed of" there would have been nothing left. No evidence. No body. Fini.
Mafia Tales
"Killing Jimmy Hoffa" is a window to a time nowadays hard to imagine. A time when worker's rights were fought out on the streets, where the mafia gangs ruled the streets and one of the most influential men could just disappear over night. It is, of course, hard to set a documentary around such a case, in which most details are still unknown to the public. A lot of what is provided is actually guess work. Still, through the choice of experts, you get a sense for what kind of a man Jimmy Hoffa was, in which company he acted and what's likable to have led to his sudden disappearance. As much as this film resolves around the mystery surrounding the Hoffa case, it is at the same time historical evidence, depicting the different layers of cooperation and dependence between politics and underworld. In the end we aren't still able to solve the mystery, but we do learn a lot about how it could rise.
Locating Hoffa
Killing Jimmy Hoffa (2014) *** (out of 4) There have been countless documentaries made on the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. T his one here benefits from being the most recent, which means that it contains more up-to-date stories on the investigation into his murder. The documentary starts out a tad bit slow as it covers the rise of Hoffa. I think there was just way too much information being given in a much too fast way and it just comes across rather uninteresting. Things get a lot better once we get to the day of his disappearance as we get footage from the last location that Hoffa was seen and we also get archival news clips from the story breaking. Several Mafia experts are interviewed with their ideas of what happened that day and we're also given the various theories of what the FBI and others believe happened. We also get to go over the confessions that have been made over the past few years. If you're interested in the aftermath of Hoffa's disappearance then this is a pretty good documentary. You certainly get a lot of information on the matter but in the end you realize that it's probably a mystery that will never fully be resolved.