Season 11 (1992)

Battle of the Styles
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January 15, 1992 • 50m

In October 1834 the Houses of Parliament burned down. Which architectural style would best express Victorian values? Architects, p...Read more

Kwai
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January 29, 1992 • 50m

Tells the full story of the "Death Railway", made famous by the 1957 film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In just 15 months, 26,000 ...Read more

Tito: 1: Churchill's Man?
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February 26, 1992 • 50m

In late 1943 Winston Churchill made what he would later describe as one of the biggest mistakes of the war. On the advice of his s...Read more

Tito: 2: His Own Man
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March 4, 1992 • 50m

When Marshal Tito imposed a communist dictatorship on Yugoslavia in 1945, the western allies regretted their support for the warti...Read more

Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back
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March 11, 1992 • 50m

Until now, the three-man Argentine junta which led the invasion of the Falkland Islands has kept its secrets. Tonight, for the fir...Read more

The Story of Elisabeth Nietzsche: 1: Forgotten Fatherland
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April 1, 1992 • 50m

In Paraguay the blond, blue-eyed people of New Germany speak the same Saxon as their ancestors did when they arrived there more th...Read more

The Story of Elisabeth Nietzsche: 2: Mother of the Fatherland
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April 8, 1992 • 50m

In 1889, when her Aryan colony in Paraguay began to fail, Elisabeth Nietzsche returned to Germany to look after her dying brother....Read more

SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
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June 3, 1992 • 50m

On Wednesday 27 May 1942, two assassins waited for a German staff car to round a hairpin bend in a suburb of Prague. Their target ...Read more

Gladio: 1: The Ringmasters
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June 10, 1992 • 45m

For 40 years the Gladio - a secret network of former Nazis originally tasked with resisting the communist threat in occupied terri...Read more

Gladio: 2: The Puppeteers
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June 17, 1992 • 50m

In August 1980, the left-wing Red Brigades were blamed for the bombing of a Bologna, Italy, railway station that resulted in 86 de...Read more

Gladio: 3: The Foot Soldiers
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June 24, 1992 • 50m

Examines whether Italian Special Forces were involved in the kidnapping and assassination of Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who...Read more

The Un-Americans: 1: Five Minutes to Midnight
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September 2, 1992 • 50m

At the dawn of the Cold War, both communists and anti-communists in America thought the world was on the brink. This special three...Read more

The Un-Americans: 2: No Place to Hide
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September 9, 1992 • 50m

Mention McCarthyism and most people think of the Hollywood blacklist. In fact, tens of thousands of ordinary people's lives were d...Read more

The Un-Americans: 3: To Hell with Truth
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September 16, 1992 • 50m

Contrasts the fame and fortune of HUAC witness Harvey Matusow, whose lies went unquestioned, with the experiences of those who ref...Read more

A Diplomat in Japan: 1: A Clash of Cultures
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September 23, 1992 • 50m

A documentary drama based on the memoirs of English diplomat Ernest Satow. Arriving in Japan at a time of political upheaval in th...Read more

A Diplomat In Japan: 2: Witness to a Revolution
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September 30, 1992 • 50m

Satow's unique understanding of the forces struggling for supremacy in Japan enabled him to have a direct influence on the events ...Read more

Special: The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1: Defying Uncle Sam
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October 7, 1992 • 50m

30 years ago, American reaction against the Cuban Revolution led the world to the brink of nuclear war. Recounting the various US-...Read more

Special: The Cuban Missile Crisis: 2: Eyeball to Eyeball
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October 14, 1992 • 50m

October 1962: The US naval blockade, the shooting down of a US spy plane, and the Soviet preparations for a nuclear response to a ...Read more

Sold Down the River
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October 21, 1992 • 50m

When white men fell out in 1861, Black Americans gained a measure of freedom. But by 1915, 50 years after the end of the Civil War...Read more

Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness
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October 28, 1992 • 50m

A personal account by actor Kenneth Griffith of the rise and fall of Irish nationalist hero Roger Casement. Knighted by the Britis...Read more