For decades, the name D.B. Cooper has stood for one of the only unsolved hijackings in American history, and I Am DB Cooper picks up that cold case through the eyes of two bounty hunters and the elderly man who claims to be him.
What is I Am Db Cooper about?
The 2022 documentary blends present-day interviews with period reenactments to follow two bounty hunters who track down a man asserting he is the long-vanished hijacker known as D.B. Cooper. Their investigation centers on his claim that he can still lead them to money he buried half a century earlier, and the film moves between his testimony, the historical record of the original case, and the reenacted scenes that stand in for events no camera ever recorded. Rather than settling the mystery outright, it lays out the man's account alongside what can and cannot be verified.
About the cast
Ryan Cory and Rainee Blake lead the present-day investigation as the bounty hunters chasing the story, with Chris Bruno, Trevor Butcher, Joshua Chessin-Yudin, Les Feltmate and Chris Grounds rounding out the cast across interviews and reenactment sequences. Director T.J. Regan also appears on screen, blurring the line between the person shaping the documentary and the people living out its events.
Context & significance
T.J. Regan directs a film that sits at the crossroads of true-crime documentary and dramatized reenactment, a hybrid format built to stretch a decades-cold case into something that plays like an active investigation. At 100 minutes, the structure alternates between the bounty hunters' present-day pursuit and staged flashes of the 1971 hijacking itself, a pacing choice common to independent true-crime titles working with limited archival footage. As a United States production with no connection to Iranian cinema, it slots into K-Time's true-crime and documentary catalog for viewers drawn to unresolved American mysteries.
Watching I Am Db Cooper on Ktime
I Am DB Cooper is free to read about on K-Time, and streaming it only requires logging into a free account, no purchase or trial involved. The platform's Farsi-language interface makes tracking down true-crime documentaries like this one simple for Persian-speaking viewers, even though the film currently has no Persian dub or subtitle track.