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Synopsis
A special SWRN series devoted to explaining some of the biggest moments of our time. From the rise of the fearsome Mongols to the spectacular Islamic empire, get an A+ look at the history of the world. Season 1 is 9 episodes long.
Episodes
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Ep 15: Right Back Where They Started
08/09/2023 Duration: 34minIn the finale of Hidden History season four, the end of the Contra war, the years of reconciliation that followed, and the dissolution of a democratic hope for the Nicaraguan people
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Ep 14: A Dark Alliance (Part 3)
01/09/2023 Duration: 31minBreaking down the reporting of Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News, particularly the Dark Alliance series laying out the Contra operation to smuggle cocaine into the US for funds to fight the Sandinistas, and the involvement of the CIA
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Ep 13: How a US Backed Militia Terrorized Nicaragua
18/08/2023 Duration: 31minThe rise of the Contras in response to the revolutionary government of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas
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Ep 12: The Rise of the Sandinistas
11/08/2023 Duration: 30minHow a guerilla group rose up to take out one of Latin America's most repressive dictatorships. Part two of our series on Nicaragua under the Sandinistas is next week.
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Ep 11: Thomas Sankara's Tragic Quest To Remake Burkina Faso
04/08/2023 Duration: 38minThe incredible and tragic life of Thomas Sankara
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Ep 10: Charles de Gaulle Was Almost Killed For Giving Up Algeria
28/07/2023 Duration: 28minThe incredible putsch against Charles de Gaulle, and how he survived it.
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Ep 9: The Brutal Coup That Stopped Congolese Democracy
21/07/2023 Duration: 35minThe tragic death of Patrice Lumumba and its devastating consequences for the Congo and Africa at large
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Ep 8: How The US Masterminded A Genocide In Indonesia
14/07/2023 Duration: 31minThe story of the anti communist 1965 genocide/politicide masterminded by the US in Indonesia against members of the PKI and other indigenous Indonesians
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Ep 7: The Hidden History of the 2000 Election
07/07/2023 Duration: 23minExamining how certain close connections and convenient decisions propelled Bush to power in 2000.
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Ep 6: Russia's Devastating Transition To Capitalism
30/06/2023 Duration: 27minInside the process of shock therapy and the lasting impacts its had on Russian society.
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Ep 5: Why The North Abandoned Reconstruction
23/06/2023 Duration: 37minA look at the campaign to tie class solidarity to black civil rights and its poisonous reverberations throughout history. Source: https://jacobin.com/2015/08/racism-reconstruction-homestead-act-black-suffrage
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Ep 4: The Hidden History of the Korean War
16/06/2023 Duration: 29minA closer look at the actions of both sides of the Korean War, and how they affected the Korean people.
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Ep 3: Bitter Fruit: How The US Destroyed Guatemalan Democracy (Part 2)
09/06/2023 Duration: 37minThe coup and the chaos that followed.
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Ep 2: Bitter Fruit: How The US Destroyed Guatemalan Democracy (Part 1)
02/06/2023 Duration: 34minThe overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala and the years of unrest and violence that followed.
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Ep 1: The Coup That Started Them All
26/05/2023 Duration: 37minThe background, significance, details, and legacy of the 1953 coup of Iran's democratically elected PM Mohammed Mossadegh.
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Ep 6: How Clement Attlee Won The Peace
13/01/2022 Duration: 23minThe story of the 1945 Labour government
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Ep 5: Nixon's Worst Crime
06/01/2022 Duration: 25minHow candidate Nixon used a South Vietnamese backchannel to stop LBJ's promising peace negotiations, ensuring Nixon's win and seven more years of death and destruction.
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Ep 4: The Plot to Assasinate George Washington
04/01/2022 Duration: 18minIn late June 1776, as a massive British fleet prepared to invade New York, a complex drama played itself out at the headquarters of General George Washington’s Continental Army in New York City: a former bodyguard of the general was set to be hanged for conspiracy against the Patriot rebellion—and against Washington, himself.On June 28, some 20,000 people gathered in a field just north of the city and watched a private in the Continental Army mount the gallows on charges of sedition, mutiny and treachery. The doomed man was Thomas Hickey, an Irish-born former British soldier who had joined the rebel cause after the outbreak of war in 1775- History
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Ep 3: Coming To Terms With the 1619 Project
30/12/2021 Duration: 41minAnalayzing Matt Karp's taking in Harpers magazine about the historical relevance of the 1619 project