Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds and the Hitler Diaries

Summary Can we trust historical documents to be genuine - and how do we know that a dramatic news report is actually just an unusually skillfully acted play? About Orson Welles radio play "War of the Worlds"(1938) which led to panic around the US as people tried to escape the invading Martians that the program warned of. And the sensational publication in the German newspaper Stern in 1983 of what were claimed to be Hitler's handwritten diaries.

S3.E3 ∙ Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds and the Hitler Diaries

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Written : Unknown

Stars : Peter Guinness Stephen Beckett Adrian Fear Benjamin Till

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Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Nov 2, 2005

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : BBC Documentaries BBC Four

Language : English

Filming locations : Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) History Channel Lion Television

Summary Can we trust historical documents to be genuine - and how do we know that a dramatic news report is actually just an unusually skillfully acted play? About Orson Welles radio play "War of the Worlds"(1938) which led to panic around the US as people tried to escape the invading Martians that the program warned of. And the sensational publication in the German newspaper Stern in 1983 of what were claimed to be Hitler's handwritten diaries.

Details

Genres : History Documentary

Release date : Nov 2, 2005

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : BBC Documentaries BBC Four

Language : English

Filming locations : Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) History Channel Lion Television

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