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BBC Alba Documentaries

Season 2011 2011
TV-G

  • 2011-06-21T23:00:00Z on BBC ALBA
  • 1h
  • 5h (5 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic language digital television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC licence by a partnership and is also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programmes made in Scotland. Most of the adult programming on BBC Alba contains on-screen English subtitles.

5 episodes

Season Premiere

2011-06-21T23:00:00Z

2011x01 Celtic Radicals(An Aghaidh an t-Srutha)

Season Premiere

2011x01 Celtic Radicals(An Aghaidh an t-Srutha)

  • 2011-06-21T23:00:00Z1h

A history of Celtic radicalism.

Gary Lewis stars as Glaswegian Archie Hall, the 'mad butler' who murdered five people in the 1970s.

The story of Howard Wilson, a Glasgow police officer who shot three former colleagues in 1969, and has since been paroled from prison.

Murder in the Mearns, in 1968. A young farmer is shot in his sleep - but who pulled the trigger?

2011-11-11T00:00:00Z

2011x05 Monte Cassino

2011x05 Monte Cassino

  • 2011-11-11T00:00:00Z1h

The Allied invasion of Southern Italy in September 1943 led to one of the most controversial campaigns of World War II. To prevent invaders from reaching Rome, the Germans constructed a chain of fortifications across Italy. Integral to this was the mountain-top monastery of Monte Cassino. Monte Cassino and its surroundings would be the site of thousands of Allied and
Germans casualties in four battles in 1944. The monastery was bombed by the Allies in the mistaken belief that German troops were occupying it. After this bombing that destroyed much of the monastery, elite German paratroopers occupied the rubble and it took several months and several thousand lives to dislodge them. Brigadier John MacFarlane explores the impact of these battles.

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