The Atomic Rocketeer
The Atomic Rocketeer is a 2024 documentary by Larry L. Sheffield that tells the whole story of Wernher Von Braun and his German Rocketeers, which were taken by Americans days after Germany fell.
A movie that tells an untold story about Von Braun’s attempts to build a new weapon in order to win World War II which was the largest project ever done by Hitler and his Nazi command.
It did not help the Germans turn the tide of the war but attracted intense interest from the United States, which resulted in a covert operation known as “Operation Paperclip”.
This event saw to it that they took away Rockets from Nazis but changed their direction towards American Advantage with no regard for cost. They chose a remote desert in New Mexico as America’s first rocket proving ground. Amazing recent discovered footage tells this compelling story.
The award winning producer Larry L. Sheffield has won 22 national and international film festival awards to date, including “Best Historical Film” for 2023 at the Cannes World Film Festival in Cannes, France.
Sheffield uses rare footage, photographs, de-classified military documents in his films along with compelling interviews mixed with his unique talent for bringing the story and history alive on the big screen.
“This story effects every human being on earth that wants to learn the history behind humans discovering the quest for space and beyond,” said Sheffield
Sheffield’s films are part of a series of documentaries, created to preserve on film, events that happened in New Mexico around The Manhattan Project, Trinity Site Nuclear Test Operation Paperclip and other Military events that shaped Human History between 1945-1950 In New Mexico.
The full story about what went down with German Nazi scientist in The New Mexican Desert is now available in this epic documentary.
Flickinger Center will be showing this film on May 31st ,2024 Alamogordo at 6 PM and June 1st , 6 PM. Advance Tickets are available on the Flickinger website or at the door.
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