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Watch Melvin & Jean: An American Story (2012) Online

  • RUNTIME: 0h 59m
  • COUNTRIES: France,United States of America
  • Subtitles: English

When Melvin and Jean McNair hijacked a plane from Detroit to Algeria in 1972 with their two babies on board, they called it an act of political resistance. The hijacking was also an act of desperation committed by two people in their early twenties who saw no other way to escape what they felt was the constant state of racial oppression in America. Living in Paris forty years after the hijacking and unable to return to the U.S., Melvin and Jean are still coming to terms with their crime and its lifelong consequences. Read More

Watch Melvin & Jean: An American Story online. Featuring , Melvin & Jean: An American Story is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in France and was released on 2012. Melvin & Jean: An American Story was directed by Maia Wechsler. Read Less