Politics Archive

  • This Week: Letter to Gorbachev

    This Week: Letter to Gorbachev

    A secretly filmed report from the Soviet Union on the powerful forces unleashed by Mr Gorbachev's "glasnost".

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  • This Week: Showdown at Aspen

    This Week: Showdown at Aspen

    Hunter S.Thompson features in this episode of 'This Week' about the elections in Aspen, 1970.

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  • Arabs and Israelis: Two Families

    Arabs and Israelis: Two Families

    The stories of an Arab and an Israeli family who both lost a son in the Yom Kippur war

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  • TV Eye: The Shah v The Mullahs

    TV Eye: The Shah v The Mullahs

    TV Eye filmed amongst the million demonstrators who thronged the streets of Tehran on Monday- the rioters echoing the words of their priests, or mullahs, 'death to the Shah'.

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  • Whose Hand on the Tap

    Whose Hand on the Tap

    1981, a film looking at both sides of the Middle East Conflict relating to who controls the water in the West Bank.

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  • Barricades

    Barricades

    Ten years of civil war in Lebanon, described through the lives of three young women.

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  • Queen and Commonwealth

    Queen and Commonwealth

    A look at the Queen's relationship with the Commonwealth, including affectionate memories relayed by the Queen herself.

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  • TV Eye: Gaddafi

    TV Eye: Gaddafi

    1981, Libya. Peter Gill interviews Colonel Gaddafi in an exclusive, discussing terrorism and his views on the West.

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  • China: Ballet

    China: Ballet

    The Peking Ballet Company, rehearsing for 'Swan Lake', including exclusive interviews about the communist regime.

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  • TV Eye: An Outrage for God

    TV Eye: An Outrage for God

    TV Eye reports from Egypt during the aftermath of the assassination of President Sadat. President Mubarak's first interview for British Television.

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