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Egypt's President Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1977. Islamic fundamentalists, considering him a traitor, called for his death. Traces the events leading up to his assassination in 1981, revealing the final days of Sadat's mission for peace. Features interviews with his widow Jehan al-Sadat, former Israeli president Ezer Weizmann and US president Jimmy Carter.
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Rafic Hariri was a self-made billionaire who returned to Lebanon to help improve his native country. He was killed by a car bomb close to the time when many thought he would again be prime minister. The ongoing UN investigation has no final answers, but many think the Syrians were involved.
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Sergio Vieira de Mello was a career UN diplomat from Brazil. After the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003, Sergio was appointed to head a mission in Iraq to establish a new Iraqi government. On August 19th, 2003, the team's headquarters in Baghdad was hit by a suicide bomber. Twenty-two people died in the blast including Sergio Vieira de Mello.
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A look at the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968 as well as his career. It examines the possibility that James Earl Ray was not the only shooter or totally innocent of the crime. It looks at the FBI's surveillance of Dr. King and J. Edgar Hoover's feelings about him.
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Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General from 1953 to 1961, met his death in a mysterious plane crash while on a mission in Katanga. Although officially seen as an accident, the circumstances in which the plane crashed, the general hostility against the UN at the time in the region, and the many financial and political interests at stake in that part of Africa during the Cold War, all seem to point now to the fact that his death could have suited many...
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Lord Louis Mountbatten was a British naval hero and Admiral of the Fleet as well as a member of the British royal family. Every summer for 20 years he would holiday in the Irish village of Mullaghmore, scoffing at security measures while he was there, because he believed the locals would never harm him. Mountbatten was well-liked, but the IRA hated what he symbolised - the "occupation" of Northern Ireland by the British. In 1979 the IRA blew up the...
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In the early hours of September 11, 1973 a military coup d'etat begins in Santiago de Chile. It is lead by General Pinochet and directed against Salvador Allende, democratically elected President three years prior to these events. Allende decides to barricade himself with a few loyal friends and his guards in La Moneda, the presidential Palace of Santiago. He refuses to negotiate with the military, and addresses the Chilenean people one last time...
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Summary: "In the Netherlands, a country so keen on consensus, Pim Fortuyn, a political outsider, criticises both the traditional right-of-centre, and the established left-of-centre parties. His main target was immigration, the problems of social security, unemployment and public safety. In cities like Rotterdam, there is an immigrant majority. In the past it had been "Come to tolerant Holland, you're welcome." First came the old colonies, then the...
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Patrice Lumumba was the first elected prime minister of the former Belgian Congo. While popular with the Congolese, he alienated many in Europe and the United States. A few months after becoming prime minister, he was overthrown by a military coup and then killed. Nobody has been charged with the crime.
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On June 27, 1985, Matthew Goniwe, a teacher and anti-apartheid activist was killed by the South African security police along with 3 others, Fort Calata, Sparrow Mkonto, and Sicelo Mhlauli. The DVD tells of the career of Matthew Goniwe as well as the history of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa.
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Gandhi was a prominent civil rights leader during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer and perfector of the resistance of tyranny through civil disobedience, based upon total non-violence. His actions led India to independence, and have inspired movements for civil rights freedom across the world. Gandhi also famously led Indians in the civil disbedience campaign against the salt tax with the 400 kilometre Salt March in 1930, and led...