They're history’s most famous and infamous people. You’ve heard of them, but now it’s time you hear from them.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 34 minutes
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Hindsight Season 4
Catherine the Great, Augusto Pinochet, Ulrike Meinhof, Pol Pot, Sani Abacha and Rosa Parks. What do they have to say in season 4 of Hindsight?
Actor Charles Dance narrates.
We begin with Catherine the Great on August 30.
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episode 1: Catherine the Great: An enlightened despot?
Strong, determined, cultured and desperate for true love. Catherine the Great was Russia's longest ruling female leader. She was also its last. In hindsight, her rise to power was no accident.
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episode 2: Augusto Pinochet: The Triumph of Mediocrity
Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile for 17 years after a coup in 1973. Many who knew him in the years before considered him unremarkable. In hindsight, Pinochet was an accomplished opportunist who seized absolute power, then bullied his way into keeping it.
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episode 3: Pol Pot: The making of Cambodia’s Brother #1
In the West, Pol Pot is synonymous with Cambodia’s infamous “Khmer Rouge”. One of the most brutal dictatorships of the 20th Century. In hindsight, was this a case of one man’s bloodthirsty hunger for power, or the unravelling of a mission for an agrarian utopia?
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episode 4: Ulrike Meinhof: German ‘terrorist’ or Post-War Victim?
Ulrike Meinhof - one half of the infamous Baader-Meinhof gang that robbed, bombed, kidnapped and killed their way across Germany in the early 1970s. In hindsight, was she a deranged terrorist who took her own life to evade justice, or a misunderstood victim of a tumultuous, mid-20th century Europe?
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episode 5: Sani Abacha: Nigeria’s Most Corrupt Ruler
Sani Abacha is often referred to as the worst and most corrupt ruler in modern Nigerian history. He established a reputation as someone who was good at planning coups. A kingmaker of sorts. But none was more successful, and subsequently destructive, as his own takeover for power.
In hindsight, how did no one see it coming?
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episode 6: Rosa Parks: The Spark of the US Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks is known to most as the woman who took a stand by sitting down. In the collective memory, her legacy is confined to that one day, but in hindsight, refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus was neither her first nor her last fight for social justice.
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