1979: Big Bang of the Present

Name: 1979: Big Bang of the Present
Director: Dirk van den Berg
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2019-12-10
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Haideh Daragahi, Shahin Nawai, Chahla Chafiq, Chris Niedenthal, Leszek Balcerowicz

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1979: Big Bang of the Present

*5.7

Status

Released

Production

K2 Productions

Aired

2019-12-10

1979: Big Bang of the Present

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

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