Screening will feature 'Last Best Hope' producer
January 31, 2017
A screening of the film “Last Best Hope: A True Story of Escape, Evasion, and Remembrance”
will be followed by a discussion with David Grosvenor, the film's producer, beginning
at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in Schaible Auditorium.
The 90-minute film, completed in 2006, documents the experiences of Grosvenor's father,
an American pilot, after his P-47 fighter aircraft was shot down over Brussels during
World War II. Belgians hid the elder Grosvenor from Germany's Nazis for nearly 8 months
until his capture in 1944.
The free public event is sponsored by the պ History Department with support from
the Alaska Humanities Forum and Greg Hill, retired Fairbanks North Star Borough libraries
director.
The film’s trailer can be viewed at .
The History Department is part of the պ College of Liberal Arts. The college, the
largest academic unit at պ, comprises 20 academic departments representing the arts,
humanities, social sciences and language disciplines.
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