Days That Shook the World S03E03 · Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds/Hitler Diaries

Overview

30 October 1938 and 24 April 1983 Over a million radio listeners panic thinking the nation was being attacked by Martians in Orsen Welles 'War of the Worlds' and one of the world's most venerable newspapers falls for fake diaries of Adolf Hitler. Clever fakers or just a gullible public?

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4. 4 4. The War to End All Wars: The End of World War I2005-11-10 · 50m11 November 1918 This dramatic story of the final days of World War 1 finds soldiers still fighting and Germany turning to anarchy. Meanwhile, in a wood in France, hostile negotia
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7. 7 7. The Battle of Midway2005-12-01 · 50m4 June 1942 At a tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the massed forces of the US and Japanese fleets meet for a decisive showdown. In the space pf just four minutes, the entire cours
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