The Age of Terror

• 1. In the Name of Liberation: Freedom by Any Means

  This program analyzes terrorism used in the name of national liberation through studies of covert wars for independence in British Palestine, British Malaya, French Algeria, apartheid South Africa, and Northern Ireland.

• 2. In the Name of Revolution: Gun-Barrel Politics

  This program examines radical political movements in Germany, Italy, Peru, and Colombia to see how Che’s theories have fared in practice.

• 3. In the Name of God: Holy Word, Holy War

  By detailing key incidents ranging from the Dawson’s Field hijackings to the Luxor massacre, this program charts the ever-widening holy war that is pitting Islamists against Zionists and the Arab world against the West.

• 4. In the Name of the State: When Might Makes Right

  This program profiles cases of Iranian-sponsored terrorism via the Hezbollah and the PLO as well as Argentina’s dirty war, when the government used terror tactics against its own people.

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Valerio Morucci

Brigade Rossi

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Raul Reyes

Sendero Luminoso

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez

The Jackal

Tim Pigott-Smith

Himself - Narrator

Andreas Baader

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Osama bin Laden

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Peter-Jürgen Boock

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Brigitte Kuhlmann

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Ulrike Meinhof

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Gudrun Ensslin

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Magdalena Kopp

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