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.

Documentary History TV Movie

Haideh Daragahi

(Self - Literature Professor (1979))

Shahin Nawai

(Self - Biologist (1979))

Chahla Chafiq

(Self - Student (1979))

Chris Niedenthal

(Self - Photojournalist (1979))

Leszek Balcerowicz

(Self - Economist (1979))

Stanisław Ciosek

(Self - Politician (1979))

Alfred Wierzbicki

(Self - Student (1979))

Hanna Suchocka

(Self - Jurist (1979))

Roger Garside

(Self - Diplomat (1979))

Wei Jingsheng

(Self - Political Dissident (1979))

Chas Freeman

(Self - US DoS Official (1979))

Charles Moore

(Self - Political Journalist (1979))

Michael Heseltine

(Self - Politician (1979))

Roy Hattersley

(Self - Politician (1979))

David Owen

(Self - Politician (1979))

Lech Wałęsa

(Self - Shipyard Worker (1979))

Jan Berris

(Self - Press Liaison (1979))

Eva Quistorp

(Self - Activist (1979))

Helmut Schmidt

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Jimmy Carter

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

James Callaghan

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Ruhollah Khomeini

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran

(Self (archive footage))

Pope John Paul II

(Self (archive footage))

Deng Xiaoping

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Margaret Thatcher

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Leonid Brezhnev

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Saddam Hussein

(Self - Politician (archive footage))

Leopoldo Galtieri

(Self - Politician (archive footage))