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20th Century - 500 People - 500 Interview

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Years

                  Title                 Starring
1900 World Exhibition in Paris Ursula Thomas:
                  was born in 1897
                    Berlin
    Maurice Bourgeois:
                     was born in 1895
                     participated in the World Wars
                     Verdun veteran
    Marie Vosswinkel:
                     was born in 1898
                     Austrian immigrant
     
1901 Death of Queen Victoria  
   
    Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg:
                    cousin of Queen Victoria
    Amie Sears:
                    born 1891
                    personally saw the Queen
     
       
    Nikolai Romanov:
                    Russian Prince and head of the Romanov Family
                    nephew to the Czar and cousin of Wilhelm II.
    Otto von Habsburg:
                    head of the Habsburgs
                    grandson of the last Austrian emperor
                    European politician
     
1903 The first powered flight of the Wright Brothers  
   
    Darrell Collins:
                    Wright Memorial Kitty Hawk
    Tom Crouch:
                    National Air
    Wilkinson Wright:
                    Orville Wright's nephew
     
1906 Earthquake in San Francisco  
   
    Cora Lucetti:
                    Survivor
                    daughter of a greengrocer
    Marion Cowen:
                    Survivor
                    she was looking for her grandparents among the ruins
    Gladys Hansen:
                    San Francisco Museum
    Marie Lou Sobeck:
                    Geologist in San Francisco
    Ross Stein:
                    Geologist in San Francisco
    Tony Irons:
                    Architect
                    he designed and rebuilt the city hall in San Francisco after the earthquake
     
1907 Rasputin and the Romanovs  
   
    Nicholas Romanov:
                    Russian Prince
                    head of the Romanov family
                    cousin of William II
    Xenia Szfiri:
                    the Rasputin murderer
                    and the grandchild of Jussupov
    Edward Radzinsky:
                    Russian historian
     
     
1909 Suffragette Demonstrations  
   
    Anna Stott:
                    The first 21-year-old woman elector and the daughter of a suffragette
    Kathleen Helpen:
                    born 1898
                    Suffragette
    Alice Schwarzer:
                    Feminist
                    chief editor of the newspaper "Emma"
     
1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole  
   
    Reinhold Messner:
                    Mountaineer
    Lady Philipa Scott:
                    Robert F.Scotts daughter
    Anne-Christine Jacobsen:
                    Roland Amundsens niece
     
1912 The maiden voyage of the Titanic  
   
    Millvina Dean:
                    The last survivor
                     she was 9 months old then
    Claes-Göran Wetterholm:
                    Writer and Marine historian
     
1913 The last German Kaiser  
   
    Nicholas Romanov:
                    Prince of Russia
    Otto von Habsburg:
                    Habsburg heir apparent to the throne
    Maria Mehren:
                    eyewitness
                    born in 1898
                    who personally saw the Emperor
    Wilhelm von Ilsemann:
                    Godson of the emperor
    Gertrud Handke:
                    eyewitness born in 1905
    Herbert Richter:
                    Soldier in World War I.
     
1914 The beginning of World War I  
   
    Otto von Habsburg:
                    former pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne
     
     
     
    Henri Auclair:
                    soldier in WW I
    Ranka Chabrinovic:
                    niece
                    of would-be assassin
    Earl Gustav Adolph von Halem:
                    took part in the Great
                    War
     
1916 The Great War: The Battle of Verdun  
   
    Ernst Weckerling:
                    Soldier
                     Warrant officer
     Kurt Julius Unruh:
                    Captain
     
     
     
                 
    Maurice Bourgeois:
                    born 1885
                    Verdun veteran
                    Retired General
    Jürgen von Falkenhayn:
                    General
     Earl Gustav Adolph von Halem:
                    took part in the Great War
     
1917 The Russian October Revolution  
   
    Nicholas Romanov:
                    Prince of Russia
                    head of the Romanov Family
     William II
                    his cousin
    Arkady Startsev:
                    Historian
    Solomon Avran:
                    98 year-old eyewitness to the revolution
                    watch-maker
    Anton-Antonov Ovseenko:
                    Historian
                    son of a leading military officer
                    GULAG victim
    Jurij Buranov:
                    Historian
     
1918 The Revolution in Germany  
   
    Philipp Scheidemann:
                    Under Secretary
                    Theodor Eschenburg
                    Eyewitness
                    His father is a captain
    Hans Georg Birzele:
                    Member of the supreme command
     
1919 The Contract: the Treaty of Versailles  
   
    Maurice Bourgois:
                    Soldier in 1919
    Alfred Grosser:
                    then in Paris
    Heinz Höffling:
                     student at the time
    Hans von Herwarth:
                     Retired diplomat
    Fritz Fischer:
                    student at the time
    Maurice Couve de Nurville:
                    Former Prime Minister
     
1920 The beginning of Prohibition in the USA  
   
    Robert St. John:
                    Journalist
                    editor of the Chicago Cicero Tribune
    Tony Berardi:
                    Photographer
    George E. Q. Johnson:
                    son of the district attorney who sentenced Al Capone
    Vern Whaley:
                    Newspaper publisher in Chicago
    Elmer Gertz:
                    Lawyer
    Harry Hart:
                    nephew of Al Capone
     
1922 The Seizure of Power: Mussolini  
     
    Nicholas Romanov:
                   Russian Prince
                    Heir apparent to the throne
 
Romano Mussolini:
                     son of Mussolini
    Pietro Carradori:
                    Young man during Mussolini years
 
Peter Paul Boscariol:
                     Liaison officer between the German and Italian troops
    Giuseppe Carletti:
                     Eyewitness
    Emil Carlebach:
                     Member of the German Communist Party
    Egon Hanfstaengl:
                     Son of Hitler"s press spokesman
 
Indro Montanelli:
                      Publicist
    Reinhard Spizzy:
                     Colleague of Hitler
     
1922  The Excavation of Tutankhamen  
    Nazri Iskander:
                     Chief curator
    Mohamed Saleh:
                     Director of the Egyptian Museum
    Mahmout Abd el Rasul:
                     Son of one of Carter"s workmate"s
     
1923 The Putsch: Hitler  
  Ernst Hanfstaengl:
                     Son of Hitler's Chief Editor
    Otto Gritschneder:
                      Lawyer
 
Günther Grassmann:
                      Eyewitness
    Josef Felder:
                      Representative in the German Socialist Party
 
Karl Füss:
                      Eyewitness
     
1924 Stalin - Lenin  
   
    Anton-Antonov Ovseyenko:
                    Historian
                    Gulag victim
                    Son of one besieger of the Winter Palace
    Jurij Buranov:
                    Historian
    Klavdija Sulgina:
                    Peasant woman from Leninskije Gorkij
    Maria Rukavisnikova:
                     Son of the personal nurse of Lenin
    Olga Uljanova:
                    Lenin"s niece
    Natalija Rikova:
                      Stalin supporter  Alexej Rikov"s daughter
     
1925 Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood  
   
    Eugene Chaplin:
                    Charlie Chaplin"s son
    David Raksin:
                    Composer of the Charlie Chaplin Films
    Gloria Deltaven:
                    Charlie Chaplins Co-Star in ”
                    Modern Times”
    Shani Wallis:
                    Charlie Chaplin"s Co-star in ”
                    King of New York”
    Dean Riesner:
                     Actress in ”
                    The Pilgrim”
    Tippi Hedren:
                    Charlie Chaplin"s Co-Star in ”
                    Queen of Hong Kong”
                    Chaplin"s last film
    Sydney Chaplin:
                    Charlie Chaplin"s son
    Norman Lloyd:
                    Charlie Chaplin"s Co-Star in "Limelight"
     
1926 Josephine Baker in her banana skirt  
   
    Roman Cycowski:
                     Member of the Comedian Harmonist Band
    Bryan Hammond:
                    Josephine Baker"s friend
    Jean-Claude Baker:
                    Josephine Baker"s stepson
                    he was 14 years old when he got to her
    Hyacinth Curtis:
                    Arstist
                    he saw live J. Baker in Paris
    Doris Haug:
                    J.Baker choreographer
     
1927 Charles Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic  
   
    Robert Bryan:
                    The lawyer of the Hauptmann Family
    Reeve Lindbergh:
                    Charles Lindbergh"s daughter
    Hugo Stockburger:
                    Eyewitness
    Scott A. Berg:
                    Wrote Lindbergh"s biography
     
1928 The Discovery: Help through Penicillin  
   
    Hans Schadewaldt:
                    Medical historian
                    Nurse in World War I.
    Norman Heatley:
                    Scientist
                    Member of the Oxford team
                    Participated in developing the penicillin
    Brown:
                    Historian
                    Flemming expert
    Nathan Reed:
                    World War II. soldier
                    after the Battle of Normandy he was treated with penicillin which saved his life
     
1929 The Stock Market Crash  
   
    Arthur Marx:
                    Groucho Marxs son
    Salwyn Shufro:
                    Broker
    Edward Lamont:
                    son of the leader of the A J.P. Morgan Bank
    John Kenneth Galbraith:
                    Economical expert 
     
1930 Gandhi: The Saltmarch  
   
    Dave Banushawkar:
                    The last survivor of the Salt march
    Gopad Godse:
                    The assassin”
                    s brother and accomplice
    Usha Gokani:
                    Ghandi”
                    s grandchild
    Muk Raj Anand:
                    Journalist
    John Woors:
                    English veteran
    Peter Richardson:
                    English veteran
     
1932 The End of the Weimar Republic  
   
    Otto von Habsburg:
                    European politician
                    Head of the Habsburg family
    Günther Schroeder:
                    Electoral participant
                    Journalist
    Reinhard Spitzy:
                    Hitler”
                    s workmate
    Tisa von Schulenber:
                    Limner
    Countess Marion von Dönhoff:
                    Student at the time
    Wilhelm Grewe:
                    Student at the time
    Bruno Hähnel:
                    Then member of Nazi Party
    Stéphane Roussel:
                    Correspondent of the time
    Lonny von Schleicher:
                    Schleicher”
                    s daughter
    Egon Hanfstaengl:
                    Son of Hitler”s
     
    Isabel von Papen:
                    von Papen”
                    s daughter
    Marcuse:
                    Supporter of the German Communist Party
    Emil Carlebach:
                    Member of the German Communist Party
     
1933 Hitlepowerr seizes
 
   
    Stéphane Roussel:
                    Correspondent in Berlin
    Egon Hanfstaengl:
                    The son of Hitler's Press spekesmann
     
    Tisa von der Schulenburg:
                    Illustrator
    Isabelle von Papen:
                    Franz von Papen's
                    daughter
    Hans Mayer:
                    German jew
    Countess Marion Dönhoff :
                    Student in 1933
    Hans Tollmann:
                    internee
    Josef Felder:
                    Representative of the German Socialist Party
     
1934 Mao Ce-Tung  
   
    Chong Chixiong:
                    Veteran of the Long March
    Chong Renhui :
                    Veteran of the Long March
    Kuan Yu-Chien:
                    China-expert
    Mao Ce Tung:
                    The Great Leader
    Csen Jinti:
                    Mao's photographer
    Chou Fuming:
                    He was in Mao's confidence
     
1936 Moments of death in the Spanish Civil War  
   
    Kurt Julius Goldstein:
                    Member of the National Brigade
    Herbert Rasc:
                     Member of the Condor Legion
    Herbert Hampe:
                     Member of the Condor Legion
    Eduardo Toledano:
                    At the age of 12 he was Franco's courier
                    Today he is the president of the alliance of the Franco Warriors
    Gervasio Puerta:
                    At the age of 15 he was the soldier of the Republic
                     Today he is the president of the alliance of the Franco Victims
    Jose Murillo Gerilla Maria Segura Picher de Borell:
                    Sister-in-law
     
          
    Orestes Broton:
                    Mario Broton"s son
    Antonio Triado Portal:
                    Archeologist
     
1936 Hero of the Olympic Games: Jesse Owens  
   
    Leni Riefenstahl:
                    Director
    Marlene O Rankin:
                    Daughter of Jesse Owens
    Ruth Owens:
                      Wife of Jesse Owens
    Beverly Owens Prather:
                     Daughter of Jesse Owens
    Fritz Schilgen:
                     Carried the torch in 1936
    Hans Borgelt:
                    Journalist
    Hilmar Hoffmann:
                    Former member of Hitler Youth
    Robert Lochner:
                    American Olympic interpreter
     
1937 The Explosion of the Lakehurst  
   
    Edith Dieckmann:
                    Former passenger
    Werner Franz:
                    Former cabin-passenger
    Eugen Bentele:
                    Former machinist of the Hindenburg
    Albrecht von Brandenstein-Zeppelin:
                    Earl Zeppelin"s grand-grandchild
    Hugo Stockburger:
                    Eyewitness
     
1937 Stalin the dictator  
   
    Natalija Rikova:
                    The daughter of A. Rikov
                    who was the member of the political committe
    Anton Antonov-Ovsejenko:
                    The son of the either besieger of the Winter Palace
    Svetlana Bucharina:
                    Nikolaj Bucharin"s daughter
                    who was Lenin"s brother-in-arms
     
1938 The Night of Broken Glass  

 
    Georg Stefan Troller:
                    Eyewitness
                    Vienna
    Werner Kuhnt:
                     Eyewitness
    Coco Schumann:
                    Eyewitness
                    Berlin
    Lore May:
                    Eyewitness
                    Frankfurt
    Walter Philipson:
                    Jewish Eyewitness
    Ernst Behm:
                    Then he was theologian
    Imo Moszkowicz:
                    Eyewitness
    Ahlen Inge Deutschkron:
                    Eyewitness
                    Berlin
     
1938 Munich Conference  
   
    Reinhard Spitzy:
                    Hitler"s workmate
    Eduard Goldstücker:
                     Bohemian diplomat
    Walter Schmid:
                    Then he worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
    Gertrud Franke:
                   
1939 Hitler attacks Poland  
   
    Wladyslav Szpilmann:
                    Writer
                    Pianist at Radio Warsaw
    Wladyslav Bartoszewski:
                    Journalist
    Hans von Herwarth:
                    He works for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
  Hitler in Paris  
1940  
     
    Ewald vom Kleist:
                    Soldier
                    later resistance fighter
    Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven:
                    Officer of the general headquarters of Hitler
    Johann Graf von Kielmannsegg:
                    Soldier in France
    Claude Mosse:
                    Inhabitant in Paris
    Hans-jürgen Habenicht:
                     Former hitlerjunge
    Winrich Behr:
                    Officer in the front
     
1941 Operation Barbarossa  
   
    Gerhard Goertz:
                    Soldier 1941
    Timofej Dombovski:
                     Soldier 1941
    Wolfgang Leonhard:
                     Studied in Moscow in 1941
    Philipp von Boeselager:
                     Officer 1941
    Peter von Zahn:
                     Crytographer at Wolfsschanze
    Franz-Rudolf Zilm:
                     Officer 1941
     Willi Hannusch:
                     Officer 1941
    Gerd Schmückle:
                     Soldier 1941
    Reinhold Lofy:
                     Soldier 1941
    Willi Hein:
                     Soldier 1941
    Galina A. Michlina:
                    Belarusian Jewish woman
    Adam Matthes:
                     Soldier 1941
     
1941 The attack on Pearl Harbor  
                 
    Zenji Abe:
                   Japanese pilot
    Robert Feary:
                   The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, former assistant
    Myrtle Watson
                    Pearl Harbor nurse
    Robert Norman:
                    U.S. naval ships in the Nevada
     
1942 Concentration camp in Auschwitz  
   
    Martin Gray:
                       Auschwitz prisoner
    Hans Münch:
                        Doctor in Auschwitz
    Magda Spiegel:
                        Auschwitz prisoner
    Jehoshua Rosenblum:
                         Special commando Auschwitz
     
1943 The Cold Battle: Stalingrad  
   
    Edith Gehlert:
                    Red Cross-nurse
    Kurt Palm:
                    Soldier at Stalingrad
    Claudia Schapowalowa:
                    lives in Stalingrad
    Iwan Stepanschuk:
                    Soldier at Stalingrad
    Günter Wolff:
                    Soldierofficer
    Heinrich Meidinger:
                    Soldierofficer at Stalingrad
    Josef Schaaf:
                    Soldierofficer at Stalingrad
    Paul Jordan:
                    Soldierofficer
     
1943 The Ghetto Boy from Warsaw  
   
    Israel Gutmann:
                    Survivor
    Tvsi Nußbaum:
                    Doctor
                     survivor
                     who again recognize himselves in the photo
    Marcel Reich-Ranicki:
                    Survivor
                    Literaturecritic
     
1944 Decision Day  
   
    Franz Gockel:
                     German soldier
    Manfred Rommel:
                    Erwin Rommel"s son / former mayor in Stuttgart
     Bob Sales:
                    US-soldier
    Bob Slaughter:
                    US-soldier
     
1945 The red flag on the Reichstag  
   
    Jevgenij Chaldeij:
                    Photographer
    Inge Deutschkron:
                    German Jew
    Lothar Loewe:
                    Hitlerjunge in Berlin
    Wolfgang Leonhard:
                    Ullbricht Group
    Traudl Junge:
                    Hitler"s secretary
    Waltraud Hahn:
                    Lives in Berlin
    Peter Florin:
                    Then he was a german communist
    Anna Louise Reichhardt:
                    Then she was a german communist
    Anneliese Leinemann:
                    Then she was a german communist
     
1945 The bombing of Hiroshima  
   
    Hans Bethe:
                    Nuclear researcher
    Dutch van Kirk:
                    Navigator of "Enola Gay"
    Francis Tomosawa:
                    Survivor
     
1946 The Nuremberg Trials  
   
    William Jackson:
                     Son of the main judge
     Howard Smith:
                     Interpreter and observer on trials
    Reinhard Spitzy:
                    Hitler's workmate
    Gitta Sereny:
                    Observer on trials
                    English journalist
                    Speer-biographer
    Joseph Malta:
                    Executioner
                    Nürnberg
     
1947 Foundation of the State of Israel  
   
    Shimon Peres:
                     Former Haganah-leader
                    Former Prime Minister
    Yossi Harel:
                     The captain of the Exodus
    Teddy Kollek:
                    Haganah-deputy in Washington
                    Former mayor in Jerusalem
    Yoram Kaniuk:
                     Volunteer in the war
                    Writer
     
1948 Raisin bombers over Berlin  
   
    Jack O. Bennett:
                    Civil pilot
                    Raisin Bombers 
    Gisela Stange:
                    Eyewitness in Berlin
    Edzard Reuter:
                    Ernst Reuter"s son
    Gail Halvorsen:
                    US-Air Force pilot
    Alexander Kulpok:
                    Eyewitness
                    Then he was 9 years old
    Mercedes Wild:
                    Inhabitant in Berlin
                    Then she was 6 years old
     
1949 The founding of the East and West German States  
   
    Taylor Ostrander:
                    Member of US Supreme Command
    Antonius John:
                    Journalist in Bonn
    Franz Heubl:
                    Founding member of CSU
    Lord Noel Annan:
                    Member of British Supreme Command
    Otto Schumacher-Hellmold:
                     Journalist in Bonn
    Lothar Rühl:
                    Employed by the Parlamentiary Commitee
    Hildegard Hamm-Brücher:
                    City Councilor in Munich
     
1951 The Comeback of a Legend: Churchill returns  
   
    Celia Sandys:
                    Churchill"s grandchild
    Winston Churchill jr.:
                    Churchill"s grandchild
     Egon Hanfstaengl:
                    The son of the spokesman of Hitler
    Barbara Castle:
                     Former member of the House of Parliament
                      former Labour-President
     
1953 Upheaval in East Germany  
   
    Sergej Kondrachov:
                    KGB agent and officer
    Valentin Falin:
                    Ministry for Foreign Affairs
    Fritz Schenk:
                    SED member
                    Officer
    Werner Herbig:
                     Leader of strike in Görlitz
     
1953 Elizabeth becomes Queen of England  
   
    Gilles Marseilles:
                    Eyewitness
    Dr. David Starkey:
                    Historian
    Kitty Kelley:
                    Gossip riporter
    Lady Pamela Hicks:
                    The queen"s maid of honour/ Prince Philipp"s cousin/ Lord Mountbatten"s daughter
     
1953 The first assault of Mount Everest  
   
    Sir Edmund Hillary:
                     First to climb Mount Everest
    Reinhold Messner:
                    Extreme mountain climber/conquered Everest
    George Band:
                    Member of the 1953 expedition
     
1954 Bombing of Bikini Atoll  
   
    Herbert York:
                    Nuclear physicist
    Dr. Edward Teller:
                    Nuclear physicist
                    Designer of the hydrogen bomb
    Almira Matayoshi:
                     Born on Bikini
                    Relocated to Rongerik Atoll
    Chiyoko Tamayose:
                    Relocated to Rongerik Atoll
    Warren Overstreet:
                    Survivor
                    US Soldier on Bikini Atoll
     
1954 Marilyn Monroe in Korea  
   
    George Barris:
                    Marilyn Monroe photographer
    James Dougherty:
                    Marilyn"s frist husband
    Chris Sarno:
                    US sailor
                    Attended Marilyn"s Korean performance
    Susan Strassberg:
                    Actress
                    Friend of Marylin
     
1955 German Prisoners return Home  
   
    Hans Ulrich Kempski:
                    Member of the German delegation
    Günther Deihl:
                    Member of the German delegation
    Rolf Dietrich Keil:
                    Adenauer"s intreperter
    Günther Wagenlehner:
                    Returned home
    Wilhelm Grewe:
                    Adenauer"s advisor
    Alexej Bogumolow:
                     Khrushchev"s interpreter
     
1956 Anti-Communist Protest in Hungary  
   
    Gergely Pongracz:
                    Leader of the insurgents at Corvin köz
    Sergey Khrushchev:
                    Nikita Khrushchev"s son
    Peter Földes:
                    Former radio producer
    Vladimir Khrushchev:
                    Head of the KGB until 1991
    Sándor Kopácsi:
                    Budapest police captain
    Vitaly Fomin:
                    Political head of the Soviet occupying forces
    Erzsebet Nagy:
                    Daughter of Imre Nagy
     
1958 The king of Rock and Roll  
   
    Dixie Emmons:
                    Elvis"s first girlfriend
    Sam Phillips:
                    Discovered Elvis
                    Founder of Sun Records
    Dj Fontana:
                    Elvis"s first drummer
    George Klein:
                    Elvis"s friend
    Ted Herold:
                    The German Elvis
                    Rock and Roll star
     
1959 Fidel Castro in Havana  
   
    Tad Szulc:
                     Journalist for New York Times
    Marita Lorenz:
                    Fidel Castro"s ex-lover
                    CIA Agent
                    She had to kill Castro
    Horacio Creache:
                    The captain of the rebellious army
    Margarita Pratts Espinosa:
                     Revolutionist in Las Villas
    Victor Boronat Munoz:
                    Lieutenant of the rebellious army
                     Fidel Castro"s brother-in-arms
     
     
    Ricardo Martinez:
                    Revolutionist
                     Founder of „
                    Radio Rebelde“
                     Fidel Castro"s brother-in-arms
     Terrance G. Leonhardy:
                     Worked for the US Ministry for Foreign Affairs
     Alina Fernandez:
                    Fidel Castro"s daughter
     
1960 Israeli agents track down Adolf Eichmann  
   
    Zvi Aharoni:
                    Israeli secret service
                    Mosad
    Simon Wiesenthal:
                    Eichmann"s chaser
    Isser Harel:
                    Chief of Mossad
    Rafi Eitan:
                    Leader of the "Eichmann Operation"
     
1961 The leap to freedom  
   
    Walter Grätz:
                     Lives in West Berlin
    Marianne von Novicof:
                    Lives in East Berlin
    Conrad Schumann:
                    East German border guard
    Kurt Dietze:
                    West Berlin police officer
    Ernst Kretzschmar:
                    Teacher in Görlitz
    Fritz Schenk:
                    East German defector
    Egon Bahr:
                    Former speaker of the Berlin senate
    Robert Lochner:
                    Director of RIAS television and radio
     
1962 The Crisis: Missiles on Cuba  
   
    Mc Illmoyle:
                    U2 Pilot
    Ted Sorensen:
                    Kennedy presidental advisor
    Robert Mc Namara:
                    Former Secretary of Defense
    Sergey Khrushchev:
                    Nikita Khrushchev"s son
      John F. Kennedy:
                    Former President of the United States
     Pierre Salinger:
                    Kennedy press secretary
     
1963 The Assassination: JF Kennedy in Dallas  
   
    Ron Jenkins:
                    Radio journalist and eyewitness
    James R. Leavelle:
                    Dallas police officer
    Arthur Schlesinger:
                    Presidental advisor and historian
    Sam Pate:
                    Eyewitness
    Pierre Salinger:
                    John F. Kennedy press secretary
    Douglas Horne:
                    Member of the Assassination Records Review Board
     
1964 Cassius Clay becomes World Champion  
   
    Joe Martin Jr.:
                    Police officer
                    Ali"s first trainer
    Leon Gast:
                    Film maker
    Angelo Dundee:
                    Trainer
    Karl Mildenberger:
                    Opponent
     
1965 A Royal Medal for the Beatles  
   
    Lorenz Niedermeier:
                    Munich police sergeant at the June 24th
                    1966 Beatles concert in Munich
    Raymond Wagner:
                    Media consultant
                    Beatles fan
                    Saw Beatles at the Circus Krone concert in Munich
    1966
    Astrid Kirchherr:
                    Photographer
                    Friend of the Beatles during the Hamburg period
    Hunter Davis:
                    Reporter
    Christel Beyl:
                    Accompanied Beatles on their Bravo-Blitz-tour
     
1966 Germany loses the Football World Championship  
   
    Uwe Seeler:
                    Captain of the German national team
    Wolfgang Weber:
                    Player on the German national team
    Hr. Krizok:
                    Football fan and referee at the finals
    Dieter Kürten:
                    Tv producer at Wembley
    Wolfgang Weber:
                    Player on the German national team
     
1967 The end of the six-day-war  
   
    Mohammed Al-Jamal:
                    Imam of the Al Aksa Mosque
    Shimon Peres:
                    Former Prime Minister
    Hod Mordechai:
                    Former commander of the Air Force
    Ifat Itzak:
                    Paratrooper
     
1967 The death of Benno Ohnesorg  
   
    Siegward Lönnendonker:
                    Member of SDS
                    Student
    Horst Geier:
                    Police commissioner
    Michael Baumann:
                    Grade school student
                    Ex-terrorist
    Frederike Hausmann:
                    Student
    Peter Ohnesorg:
                    Older brother of Ohnesorg
    Wolfgang Büsch:
                    Berlin interior cabinet
     
1968 The Shot: the death of a vietcong  
   
    Ed Miles:
                    Vietnam veteran
    Nguyen Thi Lop:
                    Widow of a Vietcong member
    Eddie Adams:
                    Photographer
    Gene La Roque:
                    Admiral in the US Navy
     
1968 The end of Pargue spring: words against tanks  
   
    Egon Bahr:
                    Staffer at the Foreign Ministry
    Valentin Falin:
                    Head of the international section of the Slovakian Communist Party
    Eduard Goldstücker:
                    President of the Czechoslovakian Writer"s Union
                    Editor-in-chief of Líterárny Listy
                    Spiritual leader of the Prague Spring
    Vera Stockikova-Heroldova:
                    Radio announcer
                    First reported news of the occupation on the radio
    Alekszandr Majorov:
                    General
                    Commander of the occupying forces
    Rudolf Slezák:
                    Camera assistant on the Kratky Film
    Kamila Mouckova:
                    Staffer in the office of the president of Czechoslovakian TV
                    Jiri Pelikan
    Emilia Gogova:
                    Daughter of Emil Gallo (man in front of the tank)
     
1969 The first man on the moon: Neil Armstrong  
   
    Stephan Bales:
                    Apollo 11 flight controller
    Alexej Kokov:
                    Cosmonaut
    Buzz Aldrin:
                    Apollo 11astronaut
     
  Chancellor Willy Brandt in Poland  
1970  
    Egon Bahr:
                    Minister of State at the German Federal Chancellery
    Israel Gutmann:
                    Survivor
    Marcel Reich-Ranicki:
                    Was in the Warsaw ghetto
                    Survived the uprising
                    Professor of Literature
    Willy Brandt:
                    Former Chancellor of Germany
    Walter Scheel:
                    President of West Germany
    Marek Edelmann:
                    Polish resistance fighter and eyewitness
                   
1972 The Victim: A Girl from Vietnam  
   
    Hans Scheicher:
                    ZDF reporter in Vietnam
    Kim Phuc:
                    Napalm victim
    John Plummer:
                     Captain
                    US Army
    Prof. Zellner:
                     Doctor who treated Kim Phuc
     Nick Ut:
                    Photographer
     
1972 The attack on Israeli sportsman during the olympic games  
   
    Ankie Spitzer:
                    André Spitzer"s widow
    Abu Daud:
                    Leader of the insurgents
    Heidi Schüller:
                    German athlete
    Hans-Jochen Vogel:
                    Vice president of the organizing committee
    Walter Tröger:
                    Mayor of the Olympic Village
    Bruno Merk:
                    Bavarian Interior Minister
    Walter Renner:
                    Munich police sergeant
    Ulrich Wegener:
                    German border guard
                    Liaison with the Interior Ministry
                   
1974 An East German Spy in the Chancellery  
   
    Helmut Schmidt:
                    Chancellor
                    Successor of Brandt
    Markus Wolff:
                    Guillaume"s principal
    Horst Ehmke:
                    Then head of the chancellor"s office
    Egon Bahr:
                    Under-secretary
    Mathias Brandt:
                    Willy Brandt"s son
    Günte Guillaume:
                    Chancery-spy
    Willy Brandt:
                    Chancellor
    Klaus Harpprecht:
                    Consultant of the chancellor
     
1974 The Watergate Hotel: Us President Nixon resigns  
   
    Carl Bernstein:
                    Journalist at Washington Post
    John Dean:
                    Lawyer in the White House
                    later crown witness versus Nixon
     G. Gordon Liddy:
                    Watergate-burglar
     
1975 Vietnam: Flight from the US Embassy  
   
    Frank Snepp:
                    CIA Agent in Saigon
    Lee Diep Nguyen:
                    Vietnamese Woman
    James Kean:
                    Soldier for US Marine
    Harry Summers:
                    Diplomat
    Peter Arnett :
                    Journalist for CNN
     
1976 The bloody end of student protests  
   
    Legkali Matabathe:
                    Director of the school called Morris Issac
    Antoinette Totsihole:
                    Hector Pietersen"s sister
    Sam Nzima:
                    Photographer
    Gladys Pietersen:
                    Hector Pietersen"s mother
     
1977 Palestinian terrorists hitchhike a german airplane  
   
    Peter Jürgen Boock:
                    Then member of  RAF
    Jürgen Vietor:
                    Co-pilot of the Landshut
    Diana Müll:
                     Hostage
    Ulrich Wegener:
                    Leader of the GSG9 unit 
     
                   
     
1978 The first test tube baby  
   
    John Brown:
                    The father of the first test-tube baby
    Louise Brown:
                    The first test-tube baby
    Leslie Brown:
                    The mother of the first test-tube baby
    Dr. Robert Edwards:
                    Gene-researcher
     
1979 The Revolution: Ayatollah Khomeini  
   
    Abol Hassan Banisadr:
                    Former President of Iran
     
                   
    Michael Metrinko:
                    Politician officer
                    American embassy
    Ibrahim Yazdir:
                    Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Iranian revolutionary government
    Gary Sick:
                    Member of the National Security Council during the crisis
     
                   
    Barry Rosen:
                    Media spokesman
                    American embassy in Teheran
                    Hostage
    Nassar Hadian:
                    Professor
                    University of Teheran
     
1980 The strike: Solidarnosc  
   
     Lech Walesa:
                    Leader of the Solidarity Movement
     Wojciech Jaruselsky:
                     Former member of the Political Commitee
                    Prime Minister in 1981
    Waldemar Kuczynski:
                    Member of the opposition
                    Advisor to the Prime Minister
     Tadeusz Mazowiecki:
                    Member of the opposition
                    Head of the government in 1989
    Pawel Zinczuk:
                    Shipyard worker
     
1981 The attempt on the Pope  
   
    Franz König:
                    Cardinal of Vienna
    John Paul II:
                    Pope
    Wojciech Jaruzelski:
                    Former Polish Prime Minister
    Ali Agca:
                    Assassin
    Melvin Goodman:
                    CIA Agent at time of assassination attempt
    Victor Sejmov:
                     Former KGB Agent
    Giulio Andreotti:
                    Italian Prime Minister
     
1982 The Falkland War  
   
    Mario Benjamin Menendez:
                     Former supreme commander of Argentine forces 
    Arturo Vallejos:
                    Argentine fighter
    Delmir Esther Hasenclever:
                    Mother of an Argentine soldier 
    Peter Carrington:
                    Former British Minister for Foreign Affairs
    Denzil Connick:
                    British veteran
                     Soldier in the Falkland War
    Robert Short:
                    Lives in Falklands
                    Farmer
    Wendy Teggart:
                    Lives in the Falklands
     
1983 The fake: Hitler  
   
    Konrad Kujau:
                    Counterfeiter
    Prof. Hugh Trevor Roper:
                    Historian
    Manfred Bissinger:
                     Former Stern editor
     
1985 Rock Hudson becomes the first famous AIDS Victim Starring:
   
    Sean Strub O"Brien:
                    Publisher of "POZ"
                    an alternative lifestyle magazine
    Bill Darrow:
                    Credited with identifying "patient zero"
    Don Francis:
                     Reseacher for the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control
     Michael Gottlieb:
                    AIDS researcher
     
1986 The Challenger Tragedy  
   
    Jesco von Putkamer:
                    NASA Headquarters
    Grace Corrigan:
                    Christa McAuliffe\\\\"s mother
    Roger Boisjoly:
                    Former engineer at NASA
    June Scobee-Rogers:
                    Wife of Challenger Commander of Dick Scobee
    Dutch van Kirk:
                    Navigator for the Enola Gay
     
1986 The nuclear disaster: Chernobyl  
   
    Jurij Samojlenko:
                    Head engineer for accident and reconstruction services
    Nikolai Steinberg:
                     Head of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant after the catastrophe
    Andrej Sinjenko:
                    Head of the electricians
    Vladimir Csuugonov:
                     Engineer and head of Block 1
    Katja Turovets:
                     Local resident living just a few kilometers from the power plant
    Vladimir Sikalov:
                    Kurchatov Institute
    Oleg Genrich:
                     Engineer on Block 4 on the night of the disaster
    Igor Kusmin:
                     Physicist at the Kurchatov Institute
                   
1987 The political scandal: Barschel  
   
     Heinrich Wille:
                    Chief Public Prosecutor
    Erich Samson:
                    Barschel"s legal counsel
    Justus Warburg:
                    Barschel family lawyer
     
1988 The catastrophe of Gladbeck  
   
     
     Wolfgang Schöning:
                    Bank director
    Ines Falk:
                    Hostage
    Winrich Granitzka:
                    Police officer in Cologne
    Holger Prestin:
                    Rösner"s attorney
    Holger Arndt:
     
1989 Berlin: The coming down of the wall  
   
    Hans Dietrich Genscher:
                     Former West German Miniter of Foreign Affairs
     Hans Modrow:
                    SED party president in Dresden
    Egon Krenz:
                    General secretary of the sSocialist Unity Party of Germany 
    Rainer Eppelmann:
                     Civil Rights activist 
     
1990 The reunification of Germany  
   
     Nikolai Portugalov:
                    Gorbachev advisor
    Helmut Kohl:
                    Chancellor of West Germany at the time
    Frank Neubert:
                    Resident of Dresden
    Markus Meckel:
                    SPD (East Germany)
    Lothar De Maiziere:
                    CDU (East Germany)
    Michail Gorbachev:
                    Former head of the Soviet Union
     
1991 Operation desert storm: The Gulf War  
   
     
    Richard B. Cheney:
                    US Secretary of Defense at the time
    Peter Arnett:
                    CNN Journalist
    Paul Sullivan:
                    US Army
     
1991 Communists attempt take-over in Moscow  
   
     
    Sophia Ussova:
                    Vladimir Ussov"s mother (One of the coup victims in 1991)
    Anatolij Chernyayev:
                    Gorbachev advisor at the time
    Vladimir Krjutcskov:
                    Head of the KGB until 1991
    Oleg Boldin:
                    Former deputy head of the Security Council
    Victor Karpuchin:
                    Former leader of the KGB Alpha Unit
     
1992 Omarska: The Bosnien war  
   
    Hans Koschnik:
                    EU commissioner in Mostar
    Fikret Alic:
                    Detainee in Omarska
    Lewis MacKenzie:
                    UN commander in 1992
    Zlata Medic-Cikota:
                    Detainee in Omarska
    Ed Vulliamy:
                    Journalist
     
1993 The UN flees Somalia  
   
    Gregg Gould:
                    US Army in Somaila
    David W. Floyd:
                    US Navy
                    Took part in the action at the Hotel Olympic
    Basi Mohammed Sufi:
                    Department head at the Somali Foreign Affairs Ministry
    Yussuf Adam Bokah:
                    The last Somali ambassador to East Germany
    James W. Davis:
                    International affairs analyst
    Robert B. Oakley:
                    US diplomat in Somalia
                     92-93
    Fred Peck:
                    US Navy in Somalia
     
1994 Mandela becomes South African president  
   
    Goyan Mbeki:
                    Mandela fighter and cellmate to Mandela
    Chriso Brand:
                    Nelson Mandela prison guard
    Frederik Willem de Klerk:
                    Former president of South Africa
     
1995 Rabin assassinated in Israel  
   
     
    Geula Amir:
                    Mother of Rabin assassin
    Lea Rabin:
                    Sister of Yitzakh Rabin
    Ehud Sprinzak:
                    Talmud scholar
    Simon Peres:
                    Former Prime Minister
1997  The Death of the Princess of Wales  
  Starring:
     
    Philip Atwell Brewer:
                    Yale accident specialist
    Elsa Key Bowker:
                    Close friend of Lady Diana
    Roberto Devorik:
                    Close friend of Lady Diana
    Richard Kay:
                    Royal reporter at the Daily Mail
                    Lady Diana confidant
    Mohamed Al-Fayed:
                    Dodi Al-Fayed"s father
                   
1998 The Scandal: Clinton and Lewinsky  
  Starring:
     
    Michael Isikoff:
                    Investigative editor at Newsweek
    Paula Jones:
                    Bill Clinton"s ex-lover
    Lanny T. Davis:
                    Presidental advisor
    Asa Hutchinson:
                     Member of Congress
     Chris Cannon:
                    Member of Congress
     
1999 The Incomparable Century: A Flash-back