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Casualties of War Special Event Programming on Equator HD: Runs April 8-12, 2007
The faces of war - from victims to victors - come into sharp focus this week on Equator HD with Casualties of War, a special programming event. Broadcast nightly at 9 p.m. ET/PT from April 8 - 12, a series of five acclaimed HD documentaries take viewers from the hellish WWII siege of Iwo Jima, to the brutal insanity of China’s Cultural Revolution to the aftermath of “ethnic cleansing” in Kosovo to the illicit marketplace of deadly nuclear technology.
Casualties of War Week kicks off with the series’ most timely film. The Island of Death revisits the grinding last-stand of Japan’s doomed Imperial Army in the caves of Iwo Jima’s Mount Siribachi - a legendary battle of attrition that inspired two major motion pictures this year (including the Oscar-best picture nominee Letters From Iwo Jima). The Island Of Death features footage and newly-obtained accounts from veterans of the battle, illuminating the horror of war.
The week continues with Cultural Revolution Redux, showcasing the precious photographic record of Li Zhensheng, who took more than 30,000 shots of activities, rallies and moments of brutality. His work bears witness to the still taboo subject of the forced “rustification” of China’s intellectual class in the 1960s - one of the most vivid moments of madness in the history of inhumanity.
As Casualties of War Week continues apace, viewers will meet civilians and survivors still coming to grips with the physical and emotional trauma of the mass killings in Kosovo in the ‘90s, in Displaced II.
In Children at the Muo’men Hotel, they’ll discover the Muo’men Hotel in Amman, Jordan - a hospice for cancer patients and families, many of whom have suffered the double indignity of malignancy and war in Iraq.
And in the startling documentary The Nuclear Bazaar, they’ll hear the tale of Dr. A.Q. Khan, a Pakistani national hero and the father of the country’s nuclear program, who was revealed to have sold nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. The Nuclear Bazaar features actual “nuclear black market” footage, and interviewers with the Western investigators who exposed Dr. Khan.
Equator HD brings the world’s most intriguing places and people into intimate and personal contact, with exclusive stories of remote cultures, rare geography and unique rituals that hold a mirror to ourselves and our planet.
The Island of Death Canadian Premiere on Equator HD Sunday April 8 - 9pm (ET/PT)Iwo Jima was one of the fiercest battlegrounds in the war between the U.S and Japanese forces during WWII. On this small Pacific Island, a one-month long clash began in February 1945, and only around 1,000 of the 21,000 Japanese troops on the island survived. The American troops were expecting strikes in the form of “banzai attacks”. The truth, however, is that the Japanese troops were actually attempting a war of attrition without either supply or escape routes. 28,000 U.S soldiers were also killed or injured in the hellish battlefield. The Island of Death examines records and newly obtained accounts from soldiers who fought on Iwo Jima to find out how the two military forces fought the battle to reveal the horror of war.
Cultural Revolution Redux Canadian Premiere on Equator HD Monday April 9 @ 9PM (ET/PT)The Cultural Revolution in mid-1960s is still taboo in China. Its full story has never been told there. But over 30,000 photographic negatives documenting those days still exist. The photographer is Li Zhensheng. He photographed the activities and rallies of the Red Guards as a "red-color news soldier." Although authorities ordered him to destroy the photographs, Li kept them under the floorboards in his apartment. He finally published them after moving to America. Cultural Revolution Redux takes a look at his life, his photographs and the true picture of the Cultural Revolution.
Displaced II Canadian Premiere on Equator HD Tuesday April 10 @ 9 PM (ET/PT)The war in Kosovo saw intense ethnic hatred and mass killings and produced great numbers of refugees. In 1999 NATO intervened, ending the war through bombing raids. However, did the military intervention actually bring relief to the civilian populations in the end? This program focuses on these civilians whose wounds from ethnic hatred have not yet healed, and it listens to their voices six years after the bombings.
Children at the Muo’men Hotel Canadian Premiere on Equator HD Wednesday April 11 @ 9PM (ET/PT) Because of the chaotic state in Iraq, it is difficult to receive adequate medical treatment in the country. The neighboring country of Jordan provides some relief, and in the capital, Amman, there is a hotel catering to patients and families fighting cancer. The Muo’men Hotel stands next to a cancer hospital, and it also provides a helping hand to poor people. One such person is a child suffering from cancer who has no place else to go. He was brought to the hotel by his mother from far-off Iraq. This program provides an inspiring look at how patients staying at the hotel help each other while their families are often far away.
The Nuclear Bazaar Canadian Premiere on Equator HD Thursday April 12 - 9pm(ET/PT)Dr. A.Q. Khan. was a national hero in Pakistan for his invaluable service in developing Pakistan's nuclear technology. In February 2004, Dr. Khan confessed that he had sold nuclear technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea. Investigations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and others gradually revealed the astonishing news that Dr. Khan had been selling centrifuges and other nuclear technology. This was proof that a "nuclear bazaar" actually exists. In the production of The Nuclear Bazaar, Japanese broadcasting company NHK independently obtained photographs of nuclear components traded through this network and other investigative materials. The program also captures actual scenes of this black market, which extends over more than ten countries. Also included are inter-views with investigators from Western watchdog agencies that monitored Dr. Khan for 30 years and with high government officials from the countries involved. The program offers a penetrating behind-the-scenes look at international politics, which had tacitly tolerated Dr. Khan's activities.
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