1995
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Summary Looking at the private lives of famous historical figures. View more details

1995
1h

Secret Lives

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Nigel Anthony Andrew Roberts Tim Pigott-Smith Sarah Bradford

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Genres : Biography Documentary

Release date : Feb 22, 1995

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Twenty Twenty Television

Summary Looking at the private lives of famous historical figures. View more details

Details

Genres : Biography Documentary

Release date : Feb 22, 1995

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : Twenty Twenty Television

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Episode 1 • Feb 22, 1995

Walt Disney

A profile of Walt Disney, exploring the darker side of his public persona. Exploring accusations of his racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist tendencies, lack of artistic abilities, hatred of communists and puritanical nature.

Episode 2 • Mar 01, 1995

The Young Freud

The second programme in the series turns its attention to Sigmund Freud. His significance as the father of psychoanalysis is an accepted fact, but what is the truth about the man who, even as he approached his 40s, feared he would remain an unknown Viennese nerve specialist? Uses dramatisations and interviews with medical historian Helmut Gröger; academic John Forrester; psychoanalyst Marianne Springer-Kremser; writer Lisa Appignanesi; Ernst Federn, family friend of the Freuds; and Jeffrey Masson, editor of Freud's letters.

Episode 3 • Mar 08, 1995

Mountbatten

The programme examines the public and private life of Lord Louis Mountbatten and looks behind the heroic image that he was desperate to present to the world.

Episode 4 • Mar 15, 1995

Jackie

Jacqueline Kennedy' fame rested on little she achieved or said. Instead, by shunning rather than courting publicity, she managed to intrigue the world. The programme examines her mystique and tries to establish her real nature.

Episode 5 • Nov 15, 1995

Edward VIII: The Traitor King - Part 1

Documentary programme in two parts re-evaluating the life of Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor. Reveals the betrayals and indiscretions preceding and during World War II which demonstrate his support for fascism. Questions his relationship with Hitler and Hess and asks whether the Duke was guilty of treason.

Episode 6 • Nov 22, 1995

Edward VIII: The Traitor King - Part 2

A look at Edward's relationship with Adolf Hitler and his part in the fall of France.

Episode 7 • Nov 29, 1995

Marie Stopes

Dr Marie Stopes is known as a pioneer of birth control. However, she first became known through her book Married Love, the first sex manual. The programme looks at her interest in using birth control methods to promote a master race, and her aggressive self-promotion.