Rory Kennedy's 'Freefall' reexamines Boeing after whistleblower's death

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Set us as preferred “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing” examined the aerospace company’s profit-hungry recklessness that led to 346 deaths in two 737 Max crashes.The film was in keeping with director Rory Kennedy’s career; the youngest daughter of Robert F.Kennedy, she has spent the last quarter-century directing documentaries that explore a wide array of weighty topics that often seek to hold the powerful accountable and to improve the lives of those on society’s margins: life in Appalachia (“American Hollow”); security issues and nuclear power (“Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable”); the AIDS crisis around the globe (“Pandemic: Facing AIDS”), American torture (“Ghosts of Abu Ghraib”), and high-tech inequity (“Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America”).Kennedy, who was born after her father was assassinated, credits not only him but her whole family with inspiring her.

“There were people around me doing pretty extraordinary things and trying to make the world a better place and I was definitely influenced to pursue a sense of justice and a sense of fairness in the world because of my family.”She had focused on Boeing after it became clear they were misleading the public with their initial claims of pilot error in those crashes and the government regulators had let the company get away with placing the bottom line over safety.“You want to trust these companies to do their jobs and the government to do their job but they weren’t,” Kennedy said in a recent video interview.

“I was hoping that ‘Downfall’ would really help Boeing be held accountable.”‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing,’ Rory Kennedy’s look at the aviation giant’s troubled recent history, is a dissection of corporate greed.When Kennedy finished the 2022 documentary, she thought she was done with the ...