The man who invented James Bond: The story of Ian Fleming, real-life spy, ladies' man and sportsman, who was there at the birth of MI-5 and the CIA, and gave the world one of its most enduring and iconic heroes: Bond. James Bond.
Direction
Schäfer treats Fleming like the character he always wanted to be.
Production
Archive footage that makes you smell the 1950s cigarette smoke.
Director
André Schäfer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fleming wrote Casino Royale in just two months at Goldeneye, his Jamaican estate named after a WWII operation he planned.
The documentary sidesteps that Fleming's brother Peter was the family's actual war hero—suggesting Ian's entire persona was compensatory fiction.
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