Pre-sessional Lecture 13th August 2019

GPC/Pre-sessional Lecture 2008

The day after London won the Olympic bid, terrorists attacked the public transport network killing 52 people and injuring over 700.

Twelve hours with the president on 9/11 – with direct testimony from President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and senior staff – as it changed them, America and the world.

Documentary marking the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. The day is recalled by key decision-makers including Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

The morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City, from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers collapse.

This brand new film tells of the emergency treatment of the injured that took place in and around the World Trade Center as the jets crashed and the towers fell on the morning of 9/11.

This new 90-minute documentary for ITV revisits September 11, 2001 - the day that changed the history of the modern world when two airliners slammed into the World Trade Center in New York.

Featuring newly-uncovered audio recordings, previously unseen home movies and powerful testimony from the victims' families, 9/11: Phone Calls from the Towers tells the stories of some of the people trapped in the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001.

This feature-length drama-documentary tells the story of 9/11 in the words of key political and military leaders as well as ordinary people who suddenly found themselves on the frontlines of a new kind of war.

The Conspiracy Files investigates the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

From the shy, quiet son of a billionaire to terrorist mastermind - the story of Osama Bin Laden's rise to global infamy, featuring close eyewitness accounts

The early years of Bin Laden as a timid Saudi schoolboy, from Afghan fundraiser and builder, to revered freedom fighter

After the Afghan defeat of the Soviets, Bin Laden's an acclaimed Saudi war hero. But soon he's on the run and plotting an audacious plan to fly planes into targets in the US.

Ramping up operations in Afghanistan, in 1998 Osama calls for 'the murder of any American, anywhere on Earth'. After 9/11, he goes into hiding. But US Navy Seals are on his tail.

The untold story of 2008's terrorist attack, in the words of its victims and the gunmen. The programme contains graphic images and descriptions of the atrocity which may upset some viewers. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed, Terror in Mumbai tells the story of what happened.

A journey into the thick of January's storming of the US Capitol, featuring exclusive footage and interviews with the people at the heart of the action, many of whom are speaking publicly for the first time.

The story of Anders Breivik's killing spree in Norway on July 22, 2011, tracing events as they unfolded. Survivors of the Utoya Island massacre and Oslo bomb blast discuss their experiences, and members of the emergency services recall how they helped the injured.

Salafists are the fastest growing religious group in Europe. Your goal is to "reshape" the society according to their ideas. Salafism is an expression of Islamism, in which the return to life of the pious ancestors is required.

The Conspiracy Files returns with a new programme about the final mystery of 9/11: a third tower at the World Trade Centre, which along with the Twin Towers, also collapsed that day.

Documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first satellite, Sputnik, which launched the space age in 1957. The film explores how satellites have affected almost every aspect of our lives, from spy satellites and GPS transforming the military to the communications revolution kickstarted by Telstar. But recent events in China have revealed just how vulnerable we might be, for they suggest we might be on the verge of another new age, one of satellite terrorism.

The Secret War on Terror reveals the astonishing inside story of the intelligence war which has been fought against Al Qaeda over the last decade since 9/11.

This episode looks at how, with harsh interrogation techniques increasingly off-limits, spy agencies, have developed a controversial high-tech method of targeting and killing suspected terrorists with pilotless drone aircraft.