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[Part 1] El-Banate Dol is a documentary that plunges us into the universe of adolescent girls living on the streets of Cairo, a universe of violence and oppression as well as freedom.
The History Of World War 1 In Colour
In this programme Boris Johnson also looks at the Sack of Constantinople, when Latin Christians fought eastern Christians, leading eventually to the fall of the city to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. He looks too at the Reconquista in Spain, which culminated in the wholesale expulsion of Jews and Muslims. At every turn of his journey, Boris Johnson finds that the real history is a good deal more subtle and interesting than the fictions that have grown up around it.
Niall Ferguson challenges the notion of the fall of communism as a triumph of the west and 'the end of history'. Citing the rise of China and Iran and the horrific genocides seen in the 1990s, Ferguson asks whether in the 21st century we are headed for another war of the world.
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BBC The Story of India: Part 5: The Meeting of Two Oceans
Michael Wood’s epic series moves on to the revolutionary years after 500BC - the Age of the Buddha. Travelling ... by rail to the ancient cities of the Ganges plain, by army convoy through Northern Iraq, and on down the Khyber Pass, he shows how Alexander the Great’s invasion of India inspired her first empire.
Niall Ferguson looks at the clash of empires that occured from 1904 and the further ethnic ... conflicts that followed their disintegration. Of particular note is the expulsion of peoples caused by the drive to create new ethnically homogenous nation states.
Crusades - Part 4 - Destruction
Ataturk.English Full Documentary
Niall Ferguson looks at Germany and Japan's meteoric victories leading up to 1942, as they seemed poised to win the second world war - a war both had fought as one of racial annihilation.
In the first episode of this two-part series, Boris Johnson travels to France, Spain, Egypt, Israel, Syria and Turkey to investigate the early beginnings of what some people now call 'the clash of civilisations.' This is the idea that the two historically opposed religious cultures of Christianity and Islam are locked into a never-ending cycle of mutual antipathy, distrust and violence.
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