International Terrorism Since 1945
International [...] Since 1945 is a television documentary series, shown on UKTV History from 5 January 2009.
Narrated by Robert Powell, it is shown in half-hour episodes at 5 pm and 5.30pm.
Episode 1: Early Israeli [...]
Air date: 5 January
On 22 July 1946, a Zionist group Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, [...] 91 people.
Episode 2: The Al-Qaeda Menace
Air date: 5 January
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, [...] 2,998 people. It took 105 minutes for both World Trade Center towers to collapse
Episode 3: IRA
Air date: 6 January
A brief history of Irish Republican [...].
Episode 4: Fatah/Hamas
Air date: 6 January
Palestinian [...], including events in Munich, in September 1972, when militant group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli sportspeople.
Episode 5: PLO
Air date: 7 January
The hijacking of three passenger planes, in September 1970, by the PLO, accompanied by demands for the release of imprisoned Palestinians.
Episode 6: ETA, Spain
Air date: 7 January
The [...] of Luis Carrero Blanco. On 20 December 1973, the Prime Minister of Spain was assassinated with a car bomb, by communist group ETA.
Episode 7: The Moluccan Separatists
Air date: 8 January
South Moluccans hijacked a train in the Netherlands on 23 May 1977, demanding independence for their homeland.
Episode 8: The Baader-Meinhof Gang
Air date: 8 January
[...] acts committed by far-left group Baader Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.
Episode 9: EOKA
Air date: 9 January
EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.
Episode 10: Nasser and Egyptian [...]
Air date: 9 January
The history of Egyptian [...], including the 17 November 1997, [...] of 59 foreign tourists, three police officers and A Tour guide by Egyptian group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.
Episode 11: Colonel Gaddafi and Libya
Air date: 12 January
On 21 December 1988, Libya bombed transatlantic Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.
Episode 12: Algeria and the OAS
Air date: 12 January
The group OAS committed a series of attacks, [...] hundreds, in an attempt to keep Algeria governed by France.
Episode 13: The SLA and Patty Hearst
Air date: 13 January
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.
Episode 14: The Weathermen
Air date: 13 January
Militant student group The Weathermen carried out a series of bombings in the United States from 1969 - 1977.
Episode 15: The Oklahoma Bomber
Air date: 14 January
On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, [...] 168 people.
Episode 16: The Ku Klux Klan
Air date: 14 January
A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.