Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

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2013 / 47min.

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Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as told by those caught up in the real-life drama, those in the newsrooms and those responsible for delivering these newsflashes into millions of people's homes. News stories covered include the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas (1963); the coal-tip landslide in Aberfan (1966); the Lockerbie Air Disaster (1988); the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (2001); the start of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War (1991); the dramatic end of the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980); and the announcement of the death of the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002).

Directors

Kerry Allison

Actors

John F. Kennedy

Walter Cronkite

Dan Rather

Mary Nightingale

Tony Blair

Jennie Bond

Nick Owen

Julie Etchingham

Martyn Lewis

Dermot Murnaghan

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