1979: Big Bang of the Present

7.5

2019-12-10

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

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Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

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2019-12-10

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Dirk K. van den Berg

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Documentary

History

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普通话

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K2 Productions

OutreMer Film

RBB

Telewizja Polska

ORF

INA

1979: Big Bang of the Present

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Haideh Daragahi

Shahin Nawai

Chahla Chafiq

Chris Niedenthal

Leszek Balcerowicz

Stanisław Ciosek

Alfred Wierzbicki

Hanna Suchocka

Roger Garside

Wei Jingsheng

Chas Freeman

Charles Moore

Michael Heseltine

Roy Hattersley

David Owen

Lech Wałęsa

Jan Berris

Eva Quistorp

Helmut Schmidt

Jimmy Carter

James Callaghan

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Ruhollah Khomeini

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran

John Paul II.

Deng Xiaoping

Margaret Thatcher

Leonid Brezhnev

Saddam Hussein

Leopoldo Galtieri