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6 Battle for the Gulf, 4 of 6, The 19th Province
in 6 Battle for the Gulf, 4 of 6 (London, England: SW Pictures, 2001), 51 mins
The Cairo conference, the diplomatic offensive, the exodus of refugees from Kuwait, the military mobilization and the Allied decision to go on the offensive on November 8th, 1990. The occupation of Kuwait, the organisation of the resistance, the military build-up of 700,000 troops and the final diplomatic rounds....
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The Cairo conference, the diplomatic offensive, the exodus of refugees from Kuwait, the military mobilization and the Allied decision to go on the offensive on November 8th, 1990. The occupation of Kuwait, the organisation of the resistance, the military build-up of 700,000 troops and the final diplomatic rounds. The Geneva conference. The air war, the retaliatory Scud missile attacks on Israel and the ground offensive to the moment of Iraq’s s...
The Cairo conference, the diplomatic offensive, the exodus of refugees from Kuwait, the military mobilization and the Allied decision to go on the offensive on November 8th, 1990. The occupation of Kuwait, the organisation of the resistance, the military build-up of 700,000 troops and the final diplomatic rounds. The Geneva conference. The air war, the retaliatory Scud missile attacks on Israel and the ground offensive to the moment of Iraq’s surrender.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
6 Battle for the Gulf
Speaker / Narrator
Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Person Discussed
Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 1944-2012, Ebraheem M. H. Behbahani, fl. 1990, Abdullah Al-Khandari, fl. 1990, Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, 1926-, Salem Al-Dayed, fl. 1990, Mahmoud Al-Doussari, fl. 1990, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 1930-2008, Barbara Bodine, 1948-, Salem Abdulaziz Al Sabah, fl. 1990, Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, George H. W. Bush, 1924-2018, James Addison Baker, 1930-, Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006, No...
Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 1944-2012, Ebraheem M. H. Behbahani, fl. 1990, Abdullah Al-Khandari, fl. 1990, Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, 1926-, Salem Al-Dayed, fl. 1990, Mahmoud Al-Doussari, fl. 1990, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 1930-2008, Barbara Bodine, 1948-, Salem Abdulaziz Al Sabah, fl. 1990, Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, George H. W. Bush, 1924-2018, James Addison Baker, 1930-, Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006, Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934-, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 1929-
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Iraq (1970s - Present), International sanctions, Diplomatic missions, Air raids, Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, History, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Law, British, Americans, Iraqis, Kuwaitis, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2001 SW Pictures
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6 Battle for the Gulf, 5 of 6, A Different Kind of War
in 6 Battle for the Gulf, 5 of 6 (London, England: SW Pictures, 2001), 50 mins
The air war by the Allies begins. The Allies started jamming Baghdad’s radar defences. The jamming gave the game away. Iraqi radars were blinded, but 3,000 anti-aircraft guns and 60 missile batteries began firing wildly into the sky. Allied missiles destroyed the main telephone tower. Another laser-guided bomb h...
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in 6 Battle for the Gulf, 5 of 6 (London, England: SW Pictures, 2001), 50 mins
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The air war by the Allies begins. The Allies started jamming Baghdad’s radar defences. The jamming gave the game away. Iraqi radars were blinded, but 3,000 anti-aircraft guns and 60 missile batteries began firing wildly into the sky. Allied missiles destroyed the main telephone tower. Another laser-guided bomb hit the headquarters controlling Baghdad’s air defences. Other pilots destroyed government ministries and a key communications tower....
The air war by the Allies begins. The Allies started jamming Baghdad’s radar defences. The jamming gave the game away. Iraqi radars were blinded, but 3,000 anti-aircraft guns and 60 missile batteries began firing wildly into the sky. Allied missiles destroyed the main telephone tower. Another laser-guided bomb hit the headquarters controlling Baghdad’s air defences. Other pilots destroyed government ministries and a key communications tower. With Baghdad’s air defence headquarters destroyed and its radar system in chaos, hundreds of Iraq’s fighters couldn’t operate. Only a few struggled into the air. With hundreds of allied aircraft flying, AWACS planes packed with computer equipment helped control the battle. On the first night the coalition armada systematically attacked Iraq’s war machine. The factories that made chemical and biological weapons, the Scud missile plants – in all over 200 different targets were hit. It was a new benchmark in the history of warfare, the first time the world had seen precision bombing on a vast scale. And defying all expectations, only one allied pilot, an American, had been killed. With air superiority established over the Iraqis, the coalition air planners were now confident enough to launch conventional aircraft on massive daylight raids. When Saddam met with his ministers after the first night’s bombing, he had already ordered action he believed would shatter the coalition of Western and Arab countries attacking Iraq. Scud missile launchers hidden in the desert fired at Israel. The Scuds were fired indiscriminately at Israel’s largest city. Saddam calculated the Israelis would retaliate and join the conflict. The Arabs in the coalition would then refuse to fight alongside Israel. The coalition would collapse and so would the war. Soon more Scuds were on the way. Israel’s nuclear forces now went on full alert. Sixty Israeli jets took to the skies. Early warning radar appeared to show Iraqi bombers headed for Israel. In the Pentagon, the defence secretary picked up the hotline to Tel Aviv. Israeli retaliation seemed inevitable. The Israeli Army reported nerve gas in the debris of one of the missiles. Israelis prepared for the worst. Ultimately, none of the eight Scuds that landed proved to have chemical warheads. After some discussion, Baghdad had decided the Israelis might retaliate against a chemical attack with nuclear weapons. The man who would decide what happened next was Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. He and George Bush disliked each other and when Bush telephoned him, Shamir angrily told the president that if America couldn’t stop the Scuds, the Israeli Air Force would. The Israeli Defence Minister, Moshe Arens, told us that Bush said to Shamir, pleaded with Shamir, tried to cajole Shamir that Israel not take any military action, that this would be injurious to the allied cause, that in the final analysis, that this would also be injurious to Israel’s cause. Shamir told us what he said to Bush – “It’s very difficult, Mr. President. It’s very difficult. I don’t know what the day of tomorrow will bring, but at this moment, we will act accordingly, accordingly with your concepts.” On February 21st, forty-eight hours before the ground attack was due, Iraq’s foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, arrived in Moscow. Saddam’s admission that he was willing to withdraw from Kuwait had led to some frantic Soviet diplomacy to save their old ally from defeat. Aziz went straight to the Kremlin. The Soviet president was waiting. Aziz told Gorbachev Saddam wouldn’t accept the U.N. resolutions that called for Iraq to recognize Kuwait’s independence and pay it compensation. But, he said, Iraq would withdraw from Kuwait. Gorbachev thought this was good enough. He called the White House. The president summoned his key advisors to discuss the Soviet offer. If Iraq withdrew, it would mean no bloody ground war, but Saddam would walk away unpunished, his war machine undefeated. At dawn the president called Gorbachev to tell him the deal was unacceptable. Bush’s carefully crafted international coalition was fragmenting. The French president, Francois Mitterrand, called to demand more time for diplomacy. As hundreds of oil wells blazed across Kuwait, the president issued a final ultimatum. Saddam ignored the warning. To obey, he believed, would have humiliated him in the eyes of the Arab world. Within a month of the air war, the ground war by the Allies began to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. It was a very short and comprehensive victory.
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Field of Study
Global Issues
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
SW Pictures
Series
6 Battle for the Gulf
Speaker / Narrator
Andrew Solomon, 1963-
Person Discussed
Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, Anatoly S. Chernyaev, 1921-2017, James Taylor, fl. 1991, Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud, 0049-, Adi Al-Mutairi, fl. 1991, Martin Stanton, fl. 1990, Hadhim Ahmad al-Tai, 1942-, Moshe Arens, 1925-2019, Mudar Badran, 1934-, Charles A. Horner, 1936-, Neged Al-Bora'i, fl. 1991, Mustafa Hamarneh, 1953-, Mustafa Khalil, fl. 1991, Dick Cheney, 1941-, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 1949-, Mahm...
Tariq Aziz, 1936-2000, Anatoly S. Chernyaev, 1921-2017, James Taylor, fl. 1991, Khalid bin Sultan Al Saud, 0049-, Adi Al-Mutairi, fl. 1991, Martin Stanton, fl. 1990, Hadhim Ahmad al-Tai, 1942-, Moshe Arens, 1925-2019, Mudar Badran, 1934-, Charles A. Horner, 1936-, Neged Al-Bora'i, fl. 1991, Mustafa Hamarneh, 1953-, Mustafa Khalil, fl. 1991, Dick Cheney, 1941-, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 1949-, Mahmoud Hadary, fl. 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, 1931-, Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934-, Bernard Shaw, 1940-, Walter Cronkite, 1916-2009, George H. W. Bush, 1924-2018, Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006
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Iraq (1970s - Present), Escalation (Conflict), Military alliances, Air raids, Persian Gulf War, 1991, Political and Social Movements, War and Violence, History, Diplomacy, Politics & Policy, Law, Russians, Arabs, Israelis, Iraqis, Americans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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60 Minutes, The Weapon That Failed
produced by Mary Walsh, fl. 1979, Columbia Broadcasting System, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2000), 12 mins
The air war against Serbia has been billed as the most accurate in history. The general who commanded it told Congress every weapon performed up to or beyond expectations. But CBS News Pentagon Correspondent David Martin says that although the military gets high grades for its performance in Kosovo, there is one e...
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produced by Mary Walsh, fl. 1979, Columbia Broadcasting System, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System, 2000), 12 mins
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The air war against Serbia has been billed as the most accurate in history. The general who commanded it told Congress every weapon performed up to or beyond expectations. But CBS News Pentagon Correspondent David Martin says that although the military gets high grades for its performance in Kosovo, there is one exception.
Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
News story
Contributor
Mary Walsh, fl. 1979, Columbia Broadcasting System, David Martin, 1915-1995
Author / Creator
Scott Pelley, 1957-, David Martin, 1943-
Date Published / Released
2000-01-09
Publisher
Columbia Broadcasting System
Series
60 Minutes
Speaker / Narrator
David Martin, 1915-1995
Topic / Theme
Air raids, War, Weapons and ordnance, Kosovo War, 1998-1999, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Copyright © 2000 by Columbia Broadcasting System
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Actualites Mondiales, December 4, 1940
produced by Les Actualites Mondiales, in Actualites Mondiales (Bry-sur-Marne, Ile de France, 1940, originally published 1940), 13 mins
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produced by Les Actualites Mondiales, in Actualites Mondiales (Bry-sur-Marne, Ile de France, 1940, originally published 1940), 13 mins
Date Written / Recorded
1940
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Les Actualites Mondiales
Date Published / Released
1940-12-04, 1940
Series
Actualites Mondiales
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Submarines, Religious rites and ceremonies, Factory workers, War materiel, Athletic events, Prisoners of war, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Actualites Mondiales, May 30, 1941
produced by Les Actualites Mondiales, in Actualites Mondiales (Bry-sur-Marne, Ile de France, 1941, originally published 1941), 15 mins
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produced by Les Actualites Mondiales, in Actualites Mondiales (Bry-sur-Marne, Ile de France, 1941, originally published 1941), 15 mins
Date Written / Recorded
1941
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Les Actualites Mondiales
Date Published / Released
1941-05-30, 1941
Series
Actualites Mondiales
Topic / Theme
Air raids, Invasions, Bridges, Athletic events, Animals, Orphans, Adoption, Abandoned children, Mothers, Spring (Season), German Invasion of Greece, April 6-27, 1941, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Actualites Mondiales, September 19, 1941
produced by Les Actualites Mondiales, in Actualites Mondiales (Bry-sur-Marne, Ile de France, 1941, originally published 1941), 14 mins
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produced by Les Actualites Mondiales, in Actualites Mondiales (Bry-sur-Marne, Ile de France, 1941, originally published 1941), 14 mins
Date Written / Recorded
1941
Field of Study
Newsreels
Content Type
Newsreel
Contributor
Les Actualites Mondiales
Date Published / Released
1941-09-19, 1941
Series
Actualites Mondiales
Topic / Theme
Naval battles, Mining industry, Air raids, Athletic events, Film industry, Lumber industry, Manufactured material, Invasions, German Invasion of Soviet Union, June 1941-1945, War and Violence, World History, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Air Front, 1, The Early Years '39-'42
produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 1 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 11 mins
World War II perhaps saw the greatest advancement in air warfare of the 20th century. Conflict was now determined on the battlefield and in the air above, with both fighter aircraft and bombers playing a much larger role. In this program, the first in a series of three following the development of air assault, the...
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produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 1 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 11 mins
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World War II perhaps saw the greatest advancement in air warfare of the 20th century. Conflict was now determined on the battlefield and in the air above, with both fighter aircraft and bombers playing a much larger role. In this program, the first in a series of three following the development of air assault, the conflict between Germany and Britain is examined before the US entered the fray.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mars Productions Limited, ArtsMagic, Peter Morgan Jones
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Air Front
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Morgan Jones
Topic / Theme
Bombings, Air raids, War, German Invasion of Yugoslavia, April 6-17, 1941, Blitz, September 1940-May 1941, Battle of Britain, July-October 1940, Battle of the Dunes, Dunkirk, Belgium, June 14, 1658, German Invasion of France, May 10-June 22, 1940, World War I, 1914-1918, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Air Front, 2, The Yanks Are Coming '42-'45
produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 2 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 6 mins
From the beginning of World War II until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Britain's Royal Air Force had stood alone. However, with America's entry into the war and the arrival of the 8th US Army Air Force, in the UK the tide began to turn.
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produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 2 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2010), 1 hour 6 mins
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From the beginning of World War II until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Britain's Royal Air Force had stood alone. However, with America's entry into the war and the arrival of the 8th US Army Air Force, in the UK the tide began to turn.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mars Productions Limited, ArtsMagic, Peter Morgan Jones
Date Published / Released
2010
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Air Front
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Morgan Jones
Topic / Theme
Military alliances, Bombings, Air raids, War, Battle of Berlin, 1945, Bombing of Dresden, February 14-15, 1945, Battle of Britain, July-October 1940, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Air Front, 3, Japan: Triumph & Defeat '41-'45
produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 3 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 1 hour 7 mins
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire rapidly surged out into south-east Asia and the Central Pacific. Triumph & Defeat '41 - '45 tells the story of the initial Japanese successes and then the relentless fight back by the Allies across the vast distances of the Pacific. Allied Air Force & Navy...
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produced by Mars Productions Limited and ArtsMagic, in Air Front, 3 (Pottstown, PA: MVD Entertainment Group, 2011), 1 hour 7 mins
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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire rapidly surged out into south-east Asia and the Central Pacific. Triumph & Defeat '41 - '45 tells the story of the initial Japanese successes and then the relentless fight back by the Allies across the vast distances of the Pacific. Allied Air Force & Navy aircraft supported the advance through the Solomon, Gilbert, Marshall and Philippine Island groups. With the Mariana Islands secured, t...
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire rapidly surged out into south-east Asia and the Central Pacific. Triumph & Defeat '41 - '45 tells the story of the initial Japanese successes and then the relentless fight back by the Allies across the vast distances of the Pacific. Allied Air Force & Navy aircraft supported the advance through the Solomon, Gilbert, Marshall and Philippine Island groups. With the Mariana Islands secured, the massive B-29 bombing campaign would now take the war to Japan itself, culminating in the devastating atomic bomb attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Mars Productions Limited, ArtsMagic, Peter Morgan Jones
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Series
Air Front
Speaker / Narrator
Peter Morgan Jones
Topic / Theme
Bombings, Air raids, War, Japanese Surrender, August 14, 1945, Battle of Iwo Jima, February 19-March 16, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, Atomic Bombing, Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, World War II, 1939-1945, War and Violence, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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Barbarians, The Franks
produced by Robert H. Gardner, 1947-, in Barbarians (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2006), 48 mins
The savage story of four of history's most fearsome tribes: the Saxons, The Franks, the Vandals, and the Lombards, who cut a swath of destruction through the heart of the Roman world for the better part of a millennium.
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produced by Robert H. Gardner, 1947-, in Barbarians (New York, NY: A&E Television Networks, 2006), 48 mins
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The savage story of four of history's most fearsome tribes: the Saxons, The Franks, the Vandals, and the Lombards, who cut a swath of destruction through the heart of the Roman world for the better part of a millennium.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robert H. Gardner, 1947-, Bob Boving, fl. 1984
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Series
Barbarians
Speaker / Narrator
Bob Boving, fl. 1984
Topic / Theme
French people, Invasions, Military raids, Family and Culture, War and Violence, World History, African Americans, Vietnamese, Asians, Classical Period (1000 BCE–500 CE)
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Copyright © 2011. Used by permission of A&E Television.
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