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The Age Of Terror

The Age Of Terror

★ 10.0/10•2008•1h 0m•Documentary
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Peter Taylor explores the impact and legacy of four major acts of terror from the last 30 years

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateApr 15, 2008

Episodes

E160m

Terror International

Peter Taylor examines four landmark terrorist acts of the past three decades, and their effect on history, politics and psychology. In the first programme, the story of the 1976 hijacking of a plane by Palestinians allied with German Marxist revolutionaries, which ended with a daring Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Idi Amin's Uganda.

Apr 15, 2008

E260m

Ten Days of Terror

Peter Taylor recalls the capture in French waters of a shipment of Libyan arms en route to massively augment the IRA's secret arsenal, and the paramilitary group's attack on a Remembrance ceremony in Enniskillen that followed less than a fortnight later, in which the quiet border town became the epicentre of the Troubles. Both events, in 1987, served to transform the political climate in Ulster

Apr 22, 2008

E360m

The Paris Plot

Peter Taylor looks back to Christmas Eve 1994, when a group of Islamist terrorists hijacked a French airliner in Algiers and murdered three hostages before intelligence revealed they were planning to fly into a Parisian landmark. The chilling precursor to the attacks of September 11, 2001, was prevented when French forces stormed the plane, killing the criminals and freeing all remaining passengers

Apr 29, 2008

E460m

War On The West

Peter Taylor's history of modern terrorism concludes by exploring the lead up to 9/11 with the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa.

May 6, 2008

Actors

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor

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Similars

Brennpunkt: Philips vei til terror
The Wanted
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
ETA, el final del silencio
9/11: Days That Shocked the World
11M: El principio del fin
Mullaen og Meling
Road to 9/11
11-M, para que nadie lo olvide
False Flags with Richard Dolan
Bin Laden: The Road to 9/11
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Territórios - Sob o Domínio do Crime
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A History of Antisemitism
Days That Shaped America
9/​11 - Der lange Schatten des Terrors
Terrorism Close Calls