Inheritance

A box of notebooks. Two cassette tapes. Thirty-six cents. These are items filmmaker Ken Dornstein has kept since his brother’s death in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. It was an extraordinary way to lose a loved one, but Ken’s stories about this collection offer an exploration of loss that is far more universal. Click below to begin:

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