Arena (1975)

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1999
1999x1
The 40-Year Face-Off (1): Eisenhower, Kennedy and Khrushchev - How It All Began
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Newsreel footage from 1962, when Fidel Castro's arrangement with then-Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to install nuclear-weapon sites triggered off the Cuban missile crisis.
1999x2
The 40-Year Face-Off (2): A Diamond in the Rough
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Cuba's baseball prowess has been long estabished. Fidel Castro himself was once scouted by a US team, and in 1992 Cuba surpassed even the Americans to win the first Olympic baseball gold .. show full overview
1999x3
The 40-Year Face-Off (3): LBJ, Nixon and Brezhnev - the Middle Years
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Cuba's place in world politics, from mid-sixties to mid-eighties.
1999x4
The 40-Year Face-Off (4): Reagan and Gorbachev - Castro, Cuba and the Fall of Communism
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The effects of the demise of the dominant political ethos in the east.
1999x5
The 40-Year Face-Off (5): Who Owns Che? The Importance of Not Being Emesto
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Since his death in 1967, the face of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara has stared down from posters and banners around the world, the most reproduced image since the Mona Lisa. This .. show full overview
1999x6
The 40-Year Face-Off (6): The Clinton Years - Cuba Today and Tomorrow
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Cuba's relations with the United States in recent times.
1999x7
Salman Rushdie and The Ground Beneath His Feet
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In Salman Rushdie 's new novel 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet', singer Vina Aspara is caught up in an earthquake on Valentine's Day 1989, and never seen again. On that day Rushdie's own .. show full overview
1999x8
Looking for the Iron Curtain
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The Iron Curtain ran north to south through Europe and divided the world for 50 years. American writer and broadcaster Reggie Nadelson joins former Soviet Union spin doctor Vladimir .. show full overview
1999x9
Casanova
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The legendary 18th-century lover has been immortalised in books, films and on television, but are these fictionalised accounts historically accurate? Novelist Josephine Hart investigates .. show full overview
1999x10
Blondes (1): Jayne Mansfield
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In 1957, Jayne Mansfield was riding high as the most photographed woman in the world. Yet, ten years later, she was reduced to stripping in seedy nightclubs to finance a serious alcohol .. show full overview
1999x11
Blondes (2): Diana Dors
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This second blonde-bombshell profile focuses on Britain's home-grown prototype, Diana Dors. The Rada-trained actress emerged as a sex symbol in the fifties through a run of low-budget .. show full overview
1999x12
Blondes (3): Anita Ekberg
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Perhaps best remembered as the shapely blonde who waded into the Trevi Fountain in 'La Dolce Vita', fifties sex symbol Anita Ekberg became a Hollywood icon and a cult figure in European .. show full overview

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