Stars: Tom Hanks, Bob Simon, Dick Cavett, Dan Rather, Howard Cosell
A series of documentaries focused on the ongoing Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, the evolving music industry, the Iran hostage crisis, the sexual revolution, and the increase in foreign and domestic terrorism...
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Jonathan Alter, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter
On November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists set fire to the US Embassy in Tehran and took more than 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour meeting to protest imperialism turned into an international crisis and a 24/7 media event...
Stars: Dan Rather, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H.W. Bush, Walter Cronkite
In this program, Leon Nifakh transports the listeners to the daily reality of the most important historical events of the country and revives the forgotten twists and turns of the past and reminds the present.
Stars: Ronald Reagan, Ted Koppel, Hodding Carter III, Gerald Rafshoon, Robert Gates
Using new archival sources and unprecedented access, master documentarian Barbara Koppel reveals the story of one of the most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages of the 1979 Iranian revolution...
Stars: Ronald Reagan, John Limbert, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ervand Abrahamian, Shaul Bakhash
This documentary is designed to describe the last days of the Israelis in Tehran, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The director, whose family is based in Tehran, uses archived and rare materials to bring different and interesting topics to the screen and...
