Part of the CIFF SALUTE TO VETERANS MILITARY TRACK
The Atomic Rocketeer is a 2024 documentary from Larry L. Sheffield that tells the complete story of Wernher Von Braun, the German scientist and his band of German Rocketeers that was acquired by the Americans days after the fall of Germany.
The film that tells the untold story about Von Braun’s efforts to build a novel weapon to win WW2 which became the largest project every taken by Hitler and his Nazi command.
The results didn’t turn the tide of the war for the Germans but did gain the intense interest of the United States which led to a secret mission called “Operation Paperclip”.
Q+A with Larry Sheffield
Veterans are free to attend and tickets have been generously underwritten through the 2024 Coronado Community Grant
The Coronado Island Film Festival (CIFF) welcomes makers and lovers of film from all over the world to the storied seaside village of Coronado, California to celebrate the magical art of visual storytelling. Coronado’s enduring love affair with Hollywood began more than a century ago.