Jean Batten - The Garbo of the Skies

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Jean Batten - The Garbo of the Skies

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In the 1930s Jean Batten broke solo distance flying records and achieved international fame. Directed by her biographer, Ian Mackersey, Garbo of the Skies chronicles Batten's life through archive footage, interviews, narration from her unpublished memoirs and reconstructions of her epic flights. The documentary also reveals a lonely private world: a domineering mother, romantic tragedy, a fall into obscurity, and death in a Majorcan hotel (a mystery finally solved during the film's making). G...

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1988

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http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/jean-batten-the-garbo-of-the-skies-1988

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vintage aeroplanes / concorde / charles lindburgh / southern cross / charles kingsford smith / amelia earhart / amy johnson / records / flying / flight / heroine / thirties / 30s / aviatrix / aviation

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