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The story of the first land battle in the Falklands war in which British soldiers defeated an Argentinian force and at which The Parachute Regiment's Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. H Jones was killed charging an Argentine trench and awarded the Victoria cross.
Documentary on the possible identity of "Jack the Ripper" in which David Jessel presents evidence, using up-to-date forensic methods, which point to an original suspect as being the correct one.
A look at the story of the St. Louis, the last ship to leave Germany carrying Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler. Sailing for Cuba, it left in May 1939 but was refused permission to dock at Havana. It sailed on to Florida, where Roosevelt was unwilling to givethe refugees asylum, and eventually they returned to Europe, to face a dangerous future.
In 1946 more than fifty thousand British airmen serving overseas staged the biggest mutiny in air force history. They were angry at the slow rate of demobilisation and suspected they were being kept abroad to quell any nationalist movements in India and the Far East. They were also angry at the contrast between their appalling living conditions and those of their superiors.
In March 1976 Harold Wilson resigned. Rumours circulated that he had been involved with the KGB and blacklisted by the CIA. With evidence from some of the prominent insiders' of the period the programme reveals the results of James Callaghan's unoffical inquiry into allegations of security serviceplotting' and provides a verdict on the true nature and extent of the M15 plot against Wilson.
Documentary revealing the truth behind the crash of the Soviet supersonic passenger jet at the Paris air show in 1974.
