Declassified (2004 TV series)
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| Declassified | |
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| Created by | The History Channel |
| Release | March 30, 2004 – January 5, 2006 |
Declassified is an American television series produced by Ten Worlds Productions on
The History Channel that originally aired on November 9, 2004. The series takes viewers inside vaults and archives around the world to reveal the untold stories of modern history. With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the advent of market economies worldwide, new footage and materials are flooding out of formerly secret organizations like East Germany's Stasi, the Kremlin, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and state television in Korea. Declassified reveals the stories behind the previously unseen footage with relentless, fast-cut montage and a rock beat. Declassified fuses modern graphics and editing, story-telling, rock music (from Blackie Lawless
of W.A.S.P.) and expert interviews to bring to light the thrilling and secret tales of our modern era.
The show's director
Kosh, winner of three Grammy Awards, is the former creative director for Apple Records and designer for the Beatles and Eagles
. Produced and created by Susan Shearer, John J. Flynn and Kosh. Executive produced by Carl Lindahl for the History Channel.
Episodes
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| "Declassified: The Rise and Fall of the Wall" | July 14, 2004 | PILOT (1.1) | |
| For three decades, it symbolized the chasm between East and West, a constantly simmering focal point of the Cold War. But on November 9, 1989, the long-oppressed citizens of East Berlin broke the first chink in its 96 miles of concrete and barbed wire, signaling the start of one of history's most dramatic political transformations. | |||
| "Declassified: The Taliban" | January 5, 2006 | (1.2) | |
| To the . | |||
| "Declassified: John Lennon" | January 12, 2006 | (1.3) | |
Civil Rights Movement with a sweeping counter intelligence program, inelegantly dubbed COINTELPRO. Using information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act , this program details how John, his family and his friends were affected by the FBI's attentions.
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| "Declassified: Tiananmen Square" | January 19, 2006 | (1.4) | |
| The famed demonstrations in Kent State .
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| "Declassified: Lindbergh" | January 26, 2006 | (1.5) | |
| There are some heroes whose place in history is so firm that few revelations could threaten it. But in the years between, Charles Lindbergh won the favor of the most reviled government of the 20th century, Nazi Germany. | |||
| "Declassified: Joseph Stalin" | February 2, 2006 | (1.6) | |
| Joseph Stalin remains a powerful and dark figure even 50 years after his death. His legacy as a personification of evil in the 20th century rivals Adolf Hitler's. Using newly unearthed materials and testimony, the episode reveals a never-before-seen Stalin. | |||
| "Declassified: Castro the Survivor" | February 9, 2006 | (1.7) | |
| Despite the best efforts of the U.S. government, legal and illegal, Fidel Castro still rules in Havana. The target of a protracted series of assassination attempts, he survived them all. | |||
| "Declassified: Viet Cong" | February 16, 2006 | (1.8) | |
| From hidden tunnel cities deep in the jungle, the North Vietnamese, employing a very different set of strategies, built a massive warren of tunnels and then faded into Laos when the battle turned against them.
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| "Declassified: Radical America, Left & Right" | February 23, 2006 | (1.9) | |
| The Weather Underground to the Militia movement and the Aryan Brotherhood .
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| "Declassified: Ayatollah Khomeini" | March 2, 2006 | (1.10) | |
| Before the world heard of infidels" in the name of Allah .
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| "Declassified: The Tet Offensive" | March 9, 2006 | (1.11) | |
| The Communists launched a major offensive throughout South Vietnam .
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| "Declassified: The Secrets of WWI" | March 16, 2006 | (1.12) | |
| This is the secret story of how Weapons of Mass Destruction reached the battlefield. This is the forgotten story of the secret deals, government mistakes, and political intolerance of America’s role in World War I.
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| "Declassified: Godfathers of Havana" | March 23, 2006 | (1.13) | |
| Two hundred and thirty miles south of gangsters. Havana was at the crossroads of the Mafia controlled narcotic super-highway before the Cuban Revolution took down the corrupt, Batiste government.
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| "Declassified: Chairman Mao" | March 30, 2006 | (1.14) | |
| Mao Zedong was the 20th century's answer to Napoleon: a brilliant tactician, a political and economic theorist, and a vicious leader who ruled a billion people for three decades with an iron fist. | |||
See also
External links
- Declassified at IMDb
