International Terrorism Since 1945 - Season 1
Season 1
Network
DatesJan 5, 2009 - Jan 21, 2009
Episodes
Season 1Episode 130 min
Early Israeli Terrorism
On 22 July 1946, a Zionist group Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, killing 91 people.
Jan 5, 2009
Season 1Episode 230 min
The Al-Qaeda Menace
On 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.
Jan 5, 2009
Season 1Episode 330 min
The IRA
A brief history of Irish Republican terrorism.
Jan 6, 2009
Season 1Episode 430 min
Fatah/Hamas
Palestinian terrorism, including events in Munich, in September 1972, when militant group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli sportspeople.
Jan 6, 2009
Season 1Episode 530 min
PLO
The hijacking of three passenger planes, in September 1970, by the PLO, accompanied by demands for the release of imprisoned Palestinians.
Jan 7, 2009
Season 1Episode 630 min
ETA, Basque Country
The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco. On 20 December 1973, the Prime Minister of Spain was assassinated with a car bomb, by communist group ETA.
Jan 7, 2009
Season 1Episode 730 min
The Moluccan Separatists
Formed 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.
Jan 8, 2009
Season 1Episode 830 min
The Baader-Meinhof Gang
Terrorist acts committed by far-left group Baader Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.
Jan 8, 2009
Season 1Episode 930 min
EOKA
EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.
Jan 9, 2009
Season 1Episode 1030 min
Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism
The 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.
Jan 9, 2009
Season 1Episode 1130 min
Colonel Gaddafi and Libya
On 21 December 1988, Libya bombed transatlantic Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.
Jan 12, 2009
Season 1Episode 1230 min
Algeria and the OAS
The group OAS committed a series of attacks, killing hundreds, in an attempt to keep Algeria governed by France.
Jan 12, 2009
Season 1Episode 1330 min
The SLA and Patty Hearst
In 1974, left-wing group the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, exerting pressure on her to make them join in their violent activities.
Jan 13, 2009
Season 1Episode 1430 min
The Weathermen
Communist group The Weathermen carried out a series of bombings in the United States from 1969 - 1977.
Jan 13, 2009
Season 1Episode 1530 min
The Oklahoma Bomber
On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
Jan 14, 2009
Season 1Episode 1630 min
The Ku Klux Klan
A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.
Jan 14, 2009
Season 1Episode 1730 min
Japanese Sarin Cult
The 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.
Jan 15, 2009
Season 1Episode 1830 min
The Mahdi Army
The 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
Jan 15, 2009
Season 1Episode 1930 min
Che Guevara
The 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.
Jan 16, 2009
Season 1Episode 2030 min
Fidel Castro
The 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.
Jan 16, 2009
Season 1Episode 2130 min
Somali Warlords
America's disastrous attempt to capture two notorious Somali terrorists in 1993. Last in the series.
Jan 19, 2009
Season 1Episode 2230 min
The Taliban
The global war against the Taliban, who instigated a brutal authoritarian regime in Afghanistan.
Jan 19, 2009
Season 1Episode 2330 min
The Tamil Tigers
The 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.
Jan 20, 2009
Season 1Episode 2430 min
Chechen Extremism
The Chechen rebel's who seized a theatre in Moscow and took 800 people hostage in 2002.
Jan 20, 2009
Season 1Episode 2530 min
The Mau Mau
Jan 21, 2009
Season 1Episode 2630 min
The Red Brigades
Jan 21, 2009
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