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Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World (2013)
Directed by Kerry Allison
Overview
This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as told by those caught up in the real-life drama, those in the newsrooms and those responsible for delivering these newsflashes into millions of people’s homes. News stories covered include the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas (1963); the coal-tip landslide in Aberfan (1966); the Lockerbie Air Disaster (1988); the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (2001); the start of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War (1991); the dramatic end of the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980); and the announcement of the death of the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002).
Length 47 minutes
Actors
John F. Kennedy | Walter Cronkite | Dan Rather | Tony Blair | Dermot Murnaghan | Mary Nightingale | Jennie Bond | Nick Owen | Martyn Lewis | Stewart Purvis | Sandy Gall | Kay Burley | Julie Etchingham | Lesley Boden | Alastair Stewart | Nigel Dacre | John Suchet | Sanford Socolow | Michael Jermey | Norman Rees | Richard Baker | Lis Howell | Ian Fisher | David Goldsmith | Sim Harris | Nick Rabin