Infamous Assassinations(2012)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2012-07-09
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 8.2
Votes: 4
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 26
This brand-new and exclusive series takes a closer look at some of the world's most talked-about assassinations and near misses. Always a fascinating and macabre subject, assassinations can damage a nation's confidence, create wars and shock the world. Throughout this series some of the 20th century's most outrageous attempts can, thanks to rare archive footage and reconstructions, be seen first hand and viewers are brought closer to the events than ever before. From the assassinations of John F Kennedy and Mahatma Ghandi, to attacks on royalty, politicians and media celebrities, this series uncovers the real reasons behind these events and how they unfolded.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 26E01
The Assassination of Ernst Roehm
Air Date: 2012-07-09
Munich 1934: The Night of The Long Knives Flying into Munich in the early hours of 20th June 1934, Adolf Hitler, the...
E02
The attempt on Princess Anne
Air Date: 2012-07-09
London, 1974 As the Queen"s daughter travelled from Buckingham Palace along the Mall, she was attacked by a gunman w...
E03
The Assassination of John Lennon
Air Date: 2012-07-09
New York, 1980 On 8th December 1980, outside the Dakota Building, the 40 year-old Beatle was shot dead by Mark David...
E04
The Assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten
Air Date: 2012-07-09
Ireland, 1979 The former Viceroy of India and cousin of the Queen, Lord Mountbatten was a World War II naval hero, A...
E05
The Assassination of Trotsky
Air Date: 2012-07-09
Russia, 1940 On 20 August 1940, the exiled Bolshevik leader was assassinated with an ice-pick by Ramon Mercader, who...
E06
The Assassination of Pope John Paul II
Air Date: 2012-07-09
Rome, 1981 On 13 May 1981, in front of a crowd of 20,000 people in St Peter''s Square, a young Turkish gunman shot t...
E07
The Assassination of Sikorski
Air Date: 2012-07-16
Gibraltar, 1943 On 4th July, 1943, General Wladyslaw Eugeniusz Sikorski, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army, was ...
E08
The Assassination of President McKinley
Air Date: 2012-07-16
Buffalo, New York, 1901 On 6th September 1901, whilst opening an expedition, President McKinley was shot by Polish a...
E09
The Assassination of Heydrich
Air Date: 2012-07-16
On the morning of 10th June 1942, whilst driving his open-top Mercedes to his office, Hitler"s effective deputy and a...
E10
The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Air Date: 2012-07-16
On 4th November 1995, as he was about to address a mass rally of his supporters celebrating the Israeli-Palestinian P...
E11
The Assassination of Zia Al Huq
Air Date: 2012-07-16
On August 17 1988, en route for a military base in Northern Pakistan, Pakistan's pro-military strongman was brought d...
E12
The Assassination of Verwoerd
Air Date: 2012-07-16
Cape Town, 1966 On 6 September 1966, seven minutes after taking his seat in the House of Assembly, South African Pri...
E13
The Assassinations of Indira & Rajiv Gandhi
Air Date: 2012-07-23
India, 1984 & 1989 Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was assassinated on 31st October 1984 by her Sikh bodygua...
E14
The Assassination of Che Guevara
Air Date: 2012-07-23
Bolivia, 1967 Born to a middle-class Argentine family, Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara became an icon for revolution and reb...
E15
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
Air Date: 2012-07-23
Cairo, 1981 On 6 October 1981, wearing a black ceremonial uniform at a military parade, the Egyptian President was s...
E16
The Attempt on Ronald Reagan
Air Date: 2012-07-23
Washington, 1981 On 30th March 1981, as US President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, 25-year-...
E17
The Assassination of Michael Collins
Air Date: 2012-07-23
Eire, 1922 One of the most charismatic leaders in the struggle for Irish independence from British rule, Michael Col...
E18
The Attempts on De Gaulle
Air Date: 2012-07-23
France, 1961: The Day of the Jackal There were three attempts to kill General de Gaulle, all of which were unsuccess...
E19
The Attempt on Hitler
Air Date: 2012-07-23
Rastenburg, 1944 Although there had been two previous attempts to kill Hitler, including poisoning a bottle of Coint...
E20
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
Air Date: 2012-07-30
Los Angeles, 1968 On 6th June 1968, hours after winning the Californian Democratic Primary election, Senator Robert ...
E21
The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
Air Date: 2012-07-30
New Delhi, 1948 India''s greatest founding father was a champion of peaceful protest, yet ironically he was gunned d...
E22
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
Air Date: 2012-07-30
Memphis, 1968 After leading mass protests in Birmingham Alabama and his "I have a dream" speech, Martin Luther King ...
E23
The Assassination of Tsar Nicholas II
Air Date: 2012-07-30
Yekaterinburg, 1918 After a disastrous war with Germany, the Bolsheviks imprisoned the Romanov family as their suppo...
E24
The Assassination of King Alexander
Air Date: 2012-07-30
Marseille, 1934 On 9th October 1934, just after King Alexander of Yugoslavia had arrived in the cruiser Dubrovnik fo...
E25
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Air Date: 2012-07-30
Sarajevo, 1914 A group of Serbian nationalists were determined to kill the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Two ...
E26
The Assassination of John F Kennedy
Air Date: 2012-07-30
Dallas, 1963 By 22 November 1963, the date of his assassination, President Kennedy had made many enemies. He had dec...
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