Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World (2013)

This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as told by those caught up in the real-life drama, those in the newsrooms and those responsible for delivering these newsflashes into millions of people's homes. News stories covered include the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas (1963); the coal-tip landslide in Aberfan (1966); the Lockerbie Air Disaster (1988); the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (2001); the start of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War (1991); the dramatic end of the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980); and the announcement of the death of the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002).

  • Release Date: 2013-11-06
  • Runtime: 0h 47min
  • Director: Kerry Allison

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Cast

  • Julie Etchingham

    Narrator

  • Nigel Dacre

    Self

  • Martyn Lewis

    Self

  • John Suchet

    Self

  • Alastair Stewart

    Self

  • Jennie Bond

    Self

  • Dan Rather

    Self

  • Sanford Socolow

    Self

  • Michael Jermey

    Self

  • Norman Rees

    Self

  • Richard Baker

    Self

  • Lis Howell

    Self

  • Ian Fisher

    Self

  • Stewart Purvis

    Self

  • Nick Owen

    Self

  • David Goldsmith

    Self

  • Lesley Boden

    Self

  • Sim Harris

    Self

  • Mary Nightingale

    Self

  • Nick Rabin

    Self

  • Tony Blair

    Self

  • Kay Burley

    Self

  • Walter Cronkite

    Self

  • Sandy Gall

    Self

  • John F. Kennedy

    Self

  • Dermot Murnaghan

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