All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Early Israeli Terrorism

    • January 5, 2009
    • UKTV History

    On 22 July 1946, a Zionist group Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, killing 91 people.

  • S01E02 The Al-Qaeda Menace

    • January 5, 2009
    • UKTV History

    On 11 September 2001, international Islamist group Al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger planes, and deliberately flew two of them into the World Trade Center, one into The Pentagon, and crashed the other in a field in Pennsylvania, killing 2,998 people.

  • S01E03 The IRA

    • January 6, 2009
    • UKTV History

    A brief history of Irish Republican terrorism.

  • S01E04 Fatah/Hamas

    • January 6, 2009
    • UKTV History

    Palestinian terrorism, including events in Munich, in September 1972, when militant group Black September kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli sportspeople.

  • S01E05 PLO

    • January 7, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The hijacking of three passenger planes, in September 1970, by the PLO, accompanied by demands for the release of imprisoned Palestinians.

  • S01E06 ETA, Spain

    • January 7, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The murder of Luis Carrero Blanco. On 20 December 1973, the Prime Minister of Spain was assassinated with a car bomb, by communist group ETA.

  • S01E07 The Red Brigades

    • January 7, 2009
    • UKTV History

    Formed in 1970, the Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades) sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance (NATO). The Red Brigades’ main aim was the overthrow of the Italian government, the weakening of NATO and the creation of a Marxist state.

  • S01E08 The Baader-Meinhof Gang

    • January 8, 2009
    • UKTV History

    Terrorist acts committed by far-left group Baader Meinhof Gang / Red Army Faction in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s.

  • S01E09 EOKA

    • January 9, 2009
    • UKTV History

    EOKA's attacks on police stations, government offices and military installations on Cyprus in the 1950s.

  • S01E10 Nasser and Egyptian Terrorism

    • January 10, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The history of Egyptian terrorism, including the 17 November 1997, murder of 59 foreign tourists, three police officers and a tour guide by Egyptian group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.

  • S01E11 Colonel Gaddafi and Libya

    • January 12, 2009
    • UKTV History

    On 21 December 1988, Libya bombed transatlantic Pan Am flight 103 over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie.

  • S01E12 Algeria and the OAS

    • January 12, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The group OAS committed a series of attacks, killing hundreds, in an attempt to keep Algeria governed by France.

  • S01E13 The SLA and Patty Hearst

    • January 13, 2009
    • UKTV History

    In 1974, left-wing group the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, exerting pressure on her to make them join in their violent activities.

  • S01E14 The Weathermen

    • January 13, 2009
    • UKTV History

    Communist group The Weathermen carried out a series of bombings in the United States from 1969 - 1977.

  • S01E15 The Oklahoma Bomber

    • January 14, 2009
    • UKTV History

    On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

  • S01E16 The Ku Klux Klan

    • January 14, 2009
    • UKTV History

    A history of attacks carried out by white, right-wing Christian group KKK.

  • S01E17 Japanese Sarin Cult

    • January 15, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The motives behind the March 15, 2005 gas attacks on the Tokyo subway system, committed by the new religious group Aum Shinrikyo - who aimed to destabilise the Japanese government.

  • S01E18 The Mahdi Army

    • January 15, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The motives behind actions taken by the Mahdi Army, who rose to arms in Iraq after the deposition of Saddam Hussein, in reaction to the US Military banning a Shia newspaper

  • S01E19 Che Guevara

    • January 16, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The motives, morals and methods of Che Guevara who in his relatively short life managed to inspire a generation of Cuban youths into rebellion against authority.

  • S01E20 Fidel Castro

    • January 16, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The story behind the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, which saw Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.

  • S01E21 Chechen Extremism

    • January 16, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The Chechen rebel's who seized a theatre in Moscow and took 800 people hostage in 2002.

  • S01E22 The Taliban

    • January 19, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The global war against the Taliban, who instigated a brutal authoritarian regime in Afghanistan.

  • S01E23 The Mau Mau

    • January 19, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The Mau Mau's fight for Kenya's independence from Britain, who are a violent terrorist group founded in the 1950s.

  • S01E24 The Tamil Tigers

    • January 20, 2009
    • UKTV History

    The violent campaign of the Sri Lankan terrorist group the Tamil Tigers, which started in the 1980s and has resulted in the deaths of almost 60,000 people.

  • S01E25 The Moluccan Separatists

    • January 8, 2009
    • UKTV History

    South Moluccans hijacked a train in the Netherlands on 23 May 1977, demanding independence for their homeland.

  • S01E26 Somali Warlords

    • January 19, 2009
    • UKTV History

    America's disastrous attempt to capture two notorious Somali terrorists in 1993. Last in the series.