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Ended · 2009

International Terrorism Since 1945

From the devastation of 9/11 to the horror of the London bombings, acts of terrorism have left their mark across the world. Authoritative, balanced and gripping, the series investigates the motives, morals and methods of some of the most infamous attacks of recent times. The series also looks at the groups behind the attacks: their potted histories, their leaders and how some groups even mutated in legitimate political parties. How did terror groups active in Israel after World War II eventually transform into modern day Mossad? What factors finally brought an end to the urban warfare, typified by indiscriminate car-bombings and tit-for-tat sectarian shootings, in Northern Ireland? Why was Osama Bin-Laden able to cause so much damage to the twin towers? Why is that one terrorist group fails, while another prospers and develops? With the use of rare archive footage, expert testimony and 3D graphics, this series seeks to answer those questions and much more.

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Seasons & episodes

Season 1 · 26 episodes
  1. S01 E01 · Early Israeli Terrorism
  2. S01 E02 · The Al-Qaeda Menace
  3. S01 E03 · The IRA
  4. S01 E04 · Fatah/Hamas
  5. S01 E05 · PLO
  6. S01 E06 · ETA, Basque Country
  7. S01 E07 · The Moluccan Separatists
  8. S01 E08 · The Baader-Meinhof Gang
  9. S01 E09 · EOKA
  10. S01 E10 · Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism
  11. S01 E11 · Colonel Gaddafi and Libya
  12. S01 E12 · Algeria and the OAS
  13. S01 E13 · The SLA and Patty Hearst
  14. S01 E14 · The Weathermen
  15. S01 E15 · The Oklahoma Bomber
  16. S01 E16 · The Ku Klux Klan
  17. S01 E17 · Japanese Sarin Cult
  18. S01 E18 · The Mahdi Army
  19. S01 E19 · Che Guevara
  20. S01 E20 · Fidel Castro
  21. S01 E21 · Somali Warlords
  22. S01 E22 · The Taliban
  23. S01 E23 · The Tamil Tigers
  24. S01 E24 · Chechen Extremism
  25. S01 E25 · The Mau Mau
  26. S01 E26 · The Red Brigades

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