About Searching For Sunken Wrecks In The Finnish Archipelago | Hunt for U-479
Two Finnish filmmakers and a team of international divers go in search of a WWII German U-boat and attempt to uncover the facts of a 60-year mystery. The U-479 went missing in November 1944, in the Gulf of Finland.
Searching For Sunken Wrecks In The Finnish Archipelago | Hunt for U-479 is presented by Real History. Its listed runtime is 57 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.
As a society documentary, Searching For Sunken Wrecks In The Finnish Archipelago | Hunt for U-479 uses searching, sunken, wrecks as its central frame. Social documentaries work best as invitations to examine systems through lived experience. Distinguish individual testimony from wider claims, and consider which institutions, incentives and inequalities shape the choices shown.
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- Title
- Searching For Sunken Wrecks In The Finnish Archipelago | Hunt for U-479
- Category
- Society
- Runtime
- 57 minutes
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Real History
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