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BBC True North - Belfast to Baghdad (2020) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 15, 2020

When a group of painters and decorators from Northern Ireland arrived in Baghdad 30 years ago to paint Saddam Hussein’s palace, they found themselves at the centre of an international crisis. Held as human shields it was five months before they managed to get home. Now they come together to share their story for the first time.

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BBC - Inside the Foreign Office (2018) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Nov. 30, 2018

Over a compelling and turbulent year, film-maker Michael Waldman gains privileged access to the strange, secretive and fascinating world of British diplomats.

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BBC - Britain at War: Imperial War Museum at 100 (2017) Movies

Posted by notbanned at March 26, 2017

2017 marks the centenary year of the establishment of Imperial War Museums. It was founded while the First World War was still raging - and over the past century, IWM has expanded hugely, with five sites including the Churchill War Rooms and HMS Belfast. It shares stories of those who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth.
This programme, presented by Falkland’s veteran and charity campaigner Simon Weston CBE, looks at ten key objects from the IWM's collection.

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BBC Our World - The Yazidi's Secret Children (2019) Movies

Posted by notbanned at May 26, 2019

Nafiseh Kohnavard travels to Iraq and Syria to hear from the Yazidi women forced into sexual slavery by so-called Islamic State, and who had children with their IS captors.

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BBC - This World: Kill the Christians (2015) Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 16, 2015

Christianity is facing the greatest threat to its existence in the very place where it was born. Jane Corbin travels across the Middle East to some of the holiest places in Christendom and finds that hundreds of thousands of Christians are fleeing Islamic extremists, conflict and persecution. From the Nineveh plains in Iraq to the ancient city of Maaloula in Syria, Kill the Christians reveals the story of how the religion that shaped Western culture and history is in danger of disappearing in large parts of its ancient heartland.

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BBC - The Story of India with Michael Wood [Complete 6 Episodes] (2007) Movies

Posted by sao_cu_khoa_ong at June 2, 2009

BBC - The Story of India with Michael Wood [Complete 6 Episodes] (2007)
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In his latest series ‘The Story of India’, Michael Wood explores the ancient sites that helped shape the history and culture of southern India. Join him as he explores six astonishing places, including Patna, once said to be the greatest city on earth; Madurai, a town that has existed continuously since the first millennium BC; and sites at the heart of India’s historic spice trade.

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BBC - The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors (2013) Movies

Posted by Polik88 at Oct. 21, 2013

It was the world's last Islamic empire - a super-power of a million square miles. From its capital in Istanbul it matched the glories of Ancient Rome. And after six centuries in power it collapsed less than a hundred years ago.

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BBC Documentary - The Most Hated Family in America Movies

Posted by langtuchungtinh at June 27, 2009

BBC Documentary - The Most Hated Family in America
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America's most hated family
They call themselves the most hated family in the US and they picket funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. So what did Louis Theroux make of the Phelpses after three weeks?
In any country, let alone one as patriotic as the US, few actions are as provocative as protesting at a soldier's funeral.
The Phelps family pickets mourners across the country, to mark what it describes as God's revenge on the US for tolerating homosexuality.
Their actions are in the name of the Westboro Baptist Church, which numbers 71 and is headed by "Gramps", preacher Fred Phelps. The church, which is based in Topeka, Kansas, mostly comprises his extended family.
Louis Theroux, himself no stranger to people with unconventional views, says the Phelpses are the most extreme people he has ever met. But in the following interview, he reveals how three weeks with them left him perplexed by their motivation.

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BBC Correspondent - Israel's Secret Weapon Movies

Posted by b1u3eyes at July 2, 2009

BBC Correspondent - Israel's Secret Weapon
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"The United States and Britain are preparing to wage war on Iraq, for its undisclosed weapons of mass destruction. Israel's nuclear, biological and chemical capabilities have remained un-inspected. Meanwhile Mordechai Vanunu has been imprisoned for 16 years for exposing Israel's secret nuclear bomb factory to the world. Vanunu is seen as a traitor in his own country. He has been abandoned by most of his family and has spent 11 years in solitary confinement. Today only an American couple, who have legally adopted him, are among the few visitors he is permitted.
This film is the story of the bomb, Vanunu and Israel's wall of silence."

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BBC The Story of India Episode 2 The Power of Ideas Movies

Posted by moitapchoi at July 17, 2009

BBC The Story of India Episode 2 The Power of Ideas

The second episode in Michael Wood’s series moves on to the revolutionary years after 500BC - the Age of the Buddha. Travelling by rail to the ancient cities of the Ganges plain, by army convoy through Northern Iraq, and down Pakistan's Khyber Pass, he shows how Alexander the Great’s invasion of India inspired her first empire. The Rise of Maurya kingdom.

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