International Terrorism Since 1945 - Season 1

International Terrorism Since 1945 - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesJan. 5, 2009 - Jan. 21, 2009

Episodes

Early Israeli Terrorism
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
The Al-Qaeda Menace
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
The IRA
Season 1Episode 330 min

The IRA

A brief history of Irish Republican terrorism.
Jan. 6, 2009
Fatah/Hamas
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
PLO
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
ETA, Basque Country
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
The Moluccan Separatists
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
The Baader-Meinhof Gang
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
EOKA
Season 1Episode 930 min

EOKA

EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.
Jan. 9, 2009
Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism
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
Colonel Gaddafi and Libya
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
Algeria and the OAS
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
The SLA and Patty Hearst
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
The Weathermen
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
The Oklahoma Bomber
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
The Ku Klux Klan
Season 1Episode 1630 min

The Ku Klux Klan

A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.
Jan. 14, 2009
Japanese Sarin Cult
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
The Mahdi Army
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
Che Guevara
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
Fidel Castro
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
Somali Warlords
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
The Taliban
Season 1Episode 2230 min

The Taliban

The global war against the Taliban, who instigated a brutal authoritarian regime in Afghanistan.
Jan. 19, 2009
The Tamil Tigers
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
Chechen Extremism
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
The Mau Mau
Season 1Episode 2530 min

The Mau Mau

Jan. 21, 2009
The Red Brigades
Season 1Episode 2630 min

The Red Brigades

Jan. 21, 2009

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