International Terrorism Since 1945 (2009)
International Terrorism Since 1945 is a television documentary series, shown on UKTV History from 5 January 2009. Narrated by Robert Powell, it is shown in half-hour episodes at 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm and depicts a history of some major terrorist groups since World War 2 and their activities.
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Episode 1 - Early Israeli Terrorism
Release Date: 2009-01-05On 22 July 1946, a Zionist group Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, killing 91 people.
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Episode 2 - The Al-Qaeda Menace
Release Date: 2009-01-05On 11 September 2001, international Islamist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes, and deliberately flew two of them into the World Trade Center, one into The Pentagon, and crashed the other in a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,998 people.
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Episode 3 - The IRA
Release Date: 2009-01-06A brief history of Irish Republican terrorism.
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Episode 4 - Fatah/Hamas
Release Date: 2009-01-06Palestinian terrorism, including events in Munich, in September 1972, when militant group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli sportspeople.
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Episode 5 - PLO
Release Date: 2009-01-07The hijacking of three passenger planes, in September 1970, by the PLO, accompanied by demands for the release of imprisoned Palestinians.
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Episode 6 - ETA, Spain
Release Date: 2009-01-07The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco. On 20 December 1973, the Prime Minister of Spain was assassinated with a car bomb, by communist group ETA.
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Episode 7 - The Red Brigades
Release Date: 2009-01-08Formed in 1970, the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades) sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance (NATO). The Red Brigades’ main aim was the overthrow of the Italian government, the weakening of NATO and the creation of a Marxist state.
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Episode 8 - The Baader-Meinhof Gang
Release Date: 2009-01-08Terrorist acts committed by far-left group Baader Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Episode 9 - EOKA
Release Date: 2009-01-09EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.
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Episode 10 - Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism
Release Date: 2009-01-10The history of Egyptian terrorism, including the 17 November 1997, murder of 59 foreign tourists, three police officers and a tour guide by Egyptian group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.
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Episode 11 - Colonel Gaddafi and Libya
Release Date: 2009-01-12On 21 December 1988, Libya bombed transatlantic Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.
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Episode 12 - Algeria and the OAS
Release Date: 2009-01-12The group OAS committed a series of attacks, killing hundreds, in an attempt to keep Algeria governed by France.
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Episode 13 - The SLA and Patty Hearst
Release Date: 2009-01-13In 1974, left-wing group the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, exerting pressure on her to make them join in their violent activities.
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Episode 14 - The Weathermen
Release Date: 2009-01-13Communist group The Weathermen carried out a series of bombings in the United States from 1969 - 1977.
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Episode 15 - The Oklahoma Bomber
Release Date: 2009-01-14On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
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Episode 16 - The Ku Klux Klan
Release Date: 2009-01-14A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.
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Episode 17 - Japanese Sarin Cult
Release Date: 2009-01-15The motives behind the March 15, 2005 gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, committed by the new religious group Aum Shinrikyo - who aimed to destabilise the Japanese government.
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Episode 18 - The Mahdi Army
Release Date: 2009-01-15The motives behind actions taken by the Mahdi Army, who rose to arms in Iraq after the deposition of Saddam Hussein, in reaction to the US Military banning a Shia newspaper
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Episode 19 - Che Guevara
Release Date: 2009-01-16The motives, morals and methods of Che Guevara who in his relatively short life managed to inspire a generation of Cuban youths into rebellion against authority.
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Episode 20 - Fidel Castro
Release Date: 2009-01-16The story behind the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, which saw Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.
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Episode 21 - Somali Warlords
Release Date: 2009-01-19America's disastrous attempt to capture two notorious Somali terrorists in 1993. Last in the series.
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Episode 22 - The Taliban
Release Date: 2009-01-19The global war against the Taliban, who instigated a brutal authoritarian regime in Afghanistan.
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Episode 23 - The Tamil Tigers
Release Date: 2009-01-20The violent campaign of the Sri Lankan terrorist group the Tamil Tigers, which started in the 1980s and has resulted in the deaths of almost 60,000 people.
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Episode 24 - Chechen Extremism
Release Date:The Chechen rebel's who seized a theatre in Moscow and took 800 people hostage in 2002.
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Episode 25 - The Moluccan Separatists
Release Date:The hijacking of a Dutch train by South Moluccan Separatists in 1977, who demanded independence for their homeland.
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Episode 26 - The Mau Mau
Release Date:The Mau Mau's fight for Kenya's independence from Britain, who are a violent terrorist group founded in the 1950s.