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Zero Hour - Season 2

Series: Zero Hour
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Episodes
6
Rating
TV14
Year
2006
Language
English
Publisher
Cineflix

About

Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and a split screen to follow key players, the series reveals the compelling and exciting minutes leading up to events that changed the world. The focus of the series isn't the event itself, but the individual moments that culminate in the actual event. By following numerous theatres of action as the clock winds down to zero hour, viewers are put right into the moments leading up to major historical events. Most history programming is done with 20/20 hindsight. The aim of ZERO HOUR is to experience history just before it became history.

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Episodes

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1. The Bali Bombing

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The Bali Bombing recreates the final hour leading up to the most devastating terrorist attack in Asian history. Using dramatic reconstruction, as well as interviews with survivors and experts, the episode unravels the truth about the so-called global conspiracy and reveals the inner-workings of a terrorist cell on the verge of a strike.

2. One Of America's Own

1h

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Using court records and other published sources, including interviews with the killer himself, One of America's Own tells the story of the minute-by-minute build up to this terrible tragedy. It seeks not only to understand the mind and motives of Timothy McVeigh, but also the unseemly and dangerous subculture of guns, racism, and perverted patriotism that turned the American dream into a nightmare at 9:02 a.m. on April 19th 1995.

3. The Sinking Of Estonia

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The Sinking of Estonia recreates the final hour of this fateful voyage. By interviewing surviving passengers and crew, and by analyzing the official investigation of the accident, Zero Hour pieces together the evidence to show how this tragedy took place and how some were able to survive it.

4. The King Of Cocaine

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Based on the testimony of those who were there that day, the King of Cocaine uses the transcripts of Escobar's telephone conversations, interviews with key law enforcement agents (Columbian and American), Escobar's family members and other key players, to offer an intense, second by second reconstruction of the Drug Lord's final hour – an hour that builds relentlessly to Escobar's bloody end in a storm of bullets.

5. Capturing Saddam

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Capturing Saddam reconstructs the final hour of the raid leading to the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator reviled and feared crimes committed against his people; the mass poisoning of Kurds; torture and executions in his macabre prisons; the invasion of Kuwait; and the brutal suppression of the Shia uprising in 1991.

6. The Plot To Kill The Pope

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The Plot to Kill the Pope explores the conspiracy theory that enthralled the world ever since – that the Bulgarian Secret Intelligence Agents organized the attempted assassination of the Polish Pope at the behest of the KGB. It is a suggestion that is as extraordinary as it is compelling. Based on Mehmet Ali Agca's own testimony and results of an exhaustive investigation, this film tackles the minute-by-minute events of the hour leading up to this infamous crime. In the process it reveals how the Bulgarian Conspiracy took hold in the public imagination, and the significance even today of Agca's plot to kill the Pope.

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