Champagne Safari
Description
Wealthy businessman, glamorous playboy, daring adventurer—Charles Bedaux was all these and more...much more. This acclaimed documentary tells the true story of Bedaux, who captured fame and fortune in the 1920s by inventing a new method for modernizing industry. Before long Bedaux was hobnobbing with the rich, powerful and famous all over the globe—including Nazi Germany. In his leisure he planned an elaborate expedition—a “champagne safari”—through the Canadian Rockies, documented for posterity by legendary cameraman Floyd Crosby (High Noon). But Bedaux’s world was about to collapse, as charges of collaboration and treason enveloped him. Long lost archival footage and interviews with historians, writers and relatives illuminate the story of this enigmatic, megalomaniacal American industrialist whose alliance with the Nazis helped them rise to power.
Runtime
1 hr 33 min 55 sec
Subjects
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
Similar Films
Ted Teng interview. Prime Opus Partners, LP
Legendary Cowboys
Violet Gibson, The Irishwoman Who Shot Mussolini
History Shorts, The Wright Brothers' Sister Was the Secret to Their Success
History Shorts, The Hollywood Actress Who Invented WiFi
The men who built America. The new machine. Episode 8
Bill Gates. Sultan of software
Ali & Cavett, The Tale of the Tapes
Joseph Haydn. Famous People, Incredible Lives
Louisa May Alcott. The Woman Behind Little Women
Bonnie & Clyde
Legends and Folklore of the Old West
Illuminati
The Diplomat
New York in the Fifties