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Zero Hour - Season 3

Series: Zero Hour
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Episodes
6
Rating
TV14
Year
2007
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. North Hollywood Shootout

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As two armed-robbers terrorize staff and customers inside a Bank of America branch in San Fernando Valley, North Hollywood, they are oblivious to the mounting police presence outside the building. The scene is set for the most extraordinary and violent shoot out in modern American police history.

2. A Royal Massacre

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The brutal massacre of ten members of the Nepalese Royal Family in June 2001 shocked the world, and brought a nation to the brink of destruction. As the whole of Nepal struggled to come to terms with the senseless slaughter, many refused to believe the truth: that Crown Prince Dipendra had gunned down nine members of his own family – including his mother, father, brother and sister – in cold blood before turning the gun on himself. In one fell swoop, the king and his immediate family had been wiped out, leaving Nepal a country in despair, its royal lineage in tatters.

3. SAS Mission Impossible

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As six British soldiers sit imprisoned in a hut in the jungles of Sierra Leone, their captors – a heavily-armed militia group known as the West Side Boys – are mostly sleeping. But unknown to either group, an audacious SAS rescue mission is moments away. Zero Hour arrives as 5 helicopters carrying more than 120 paratroopers appear over the horizon, unleashing an awesome military strike on the unsuspecting rebel camp.

4. The Lima Siege

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On April 22 1997 in Lima Peru, a deadly game is in play for the lives of 72 men, held hostage for 126 days by a revolutionary guerrilla movement at the Japanese Ambassador's residence. On one side of the siege is Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, a revolutionary and desperate man willing to kill for the woman he loves; on the other side a ruthless and corrupt political czar, Vladimiro Montesinos. At the heart of the siege is Admiral Luís Giampietri, a man who risks his own life to become a hero. The Lima Siege is the story of the last hour of the last day of a terrifying siege that lasted 126 days.

5. Falling Star: Columbia

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Falling Star counts down the final hour of one of the most catastrophic events in the history of space aviation when the space shuttle Columbia, the most advanced vehicle ever built, disintegrates in a fireball in the sky over Texas. A story about the loss of seven lives on a mission that was doomed from the start, Falling Star uses published accounts, eyewitness interviews, and the findings of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board to examine what could have been done to save the lives of the seven astronauts onboard.

6. Shoot-Out In Marseilles

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Shoot-Out in Marseilles chronicles the final sixty minutes of a two-day stand-off between Algerian hijackers and France's counter terrorist unit.

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