Season 8 (1989)

Light in the Dark
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January 11, 1989 • 1h

During the Nazi occupation of eastern Poland, a small group of Jews in the city of Lvov tried to save themselves from the death ca...Read more

An Age of Empire
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February 8, 1989 • 50m

What effect did Charlie Chaplin have on the sale of tea? What first caused the sudden and surprising popularity of tennis and golf...Read more

Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor
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April 5, 1989 • 1h 10m

For nearly 50 years the world has been led to believe President Roosevelt's statement that the attack was a total surprise and com...Read more

Playing with History
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May 3, 1989 • 50m

Two stories reflect the contribution made to history by non-professionals. BRITISH AND GUARANTEED: A look at those who re-create ...Read more

Witnesses
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May 31, 1989 • 50m

Two eyewitness accounts of the past - 500 years apart. The 15th-century letters of Margaret Paston push aside people's misconcept...Read more

The Night of the Long Knives
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July 27, 1989 • 1h

In July 1962, Harold Macmillan sacked a third of his Cabinet, including Chancellor of the Exchequer and some of his oldest politic...Read more

Summer of the Bomb
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August 9, 1989 • 1h

Did the atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki really shorten the war and save Allied lives? Based on American archive r...Read more

The Land of Lost Content
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September 6, 1989 • 50m

England's land was green but never pleasant. So why do villages and fields conjure up a happy, wholesome past? This film unravels ...Read more

Trotsky
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October 4, 1989 • 1h

Leon Trotsky was one of the architects of the Russian Revolution and creator of the Red Army. Brilliant and eloquent, and expected...Read more

Fascist Legacy: 1: A Promise Fulfilled
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November 1, 1989 • 50m

During the Second World War, Italian forces in Yugoslavia murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians. Historians have now exposed...Read more

Fascist Legacy: 2: A Pledge Betrayed
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November 8, 1989 • 50m

At the end of the Second World War, conclusive evidence of war crimes was presented against more than 1,200 high-ranking Italian F...Read more