Above All Else

Above All Else

Above All Else

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Above All Else

2015

0h 8m

6.0(1 votes)

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Overview

In 1992, skydiver Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld boarded a plane for a training jump. Six weeks later, he awoke from a coma to discover that a terrible accident had shattered his dream of becoming a World Champion. This is his story.

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Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld

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Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld

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