The real Indiana Jones? This doc digs up adventurers who actually lived the fantasy.
A special examining the appeal of real-life daredevils and heroic figures compared with their fictional counterparts as portrayed in adventure films.
Production
Charming period artifacts: mullets, synth score, genuine belief in heroes.
Acting
Harrison Ford briefly appears as himself, presumably confused.
Director
Les Mayfield
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1990 TV special capitalized on Last Crusade hype, part of a wave of adventure-docs that treated explorers like rock stars before reality TV ruined everything.
Wade Davis, featured here as a real-life adventurer, later became famous for 'The Serpent and the Rainbow' and became a fierce critic of how Indigenous knowledge gets appropriated by Western explorers.
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