History of the 80‘s

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  • Genre
  • Country:
    United States
  • Disc number:
    3
  • Format:
    DVD
  • Language:
    ENG
  • Production year:
    2004
  • Rating:
    NR
  • Region code:
    0
  • Release date:
    08/01/2004
  • Running time:
    510
  • Features
  • Genre
  • Country:
    United States
  • Disc number:
    3
  • Format:
    DVD
  • Language:
    ENG
  • Production year:
    2004
  • Rating:
    NR
  • Region code:
    0
  • Release date:
    08/01/2004
  • Running time:
    510

Synopsis

An ABC News special presentation taking a voyage through one of the most turbulent and provocative decades of the past century. This dramatic 10-part series revisits the events, the people and the places that created headlines and shaped history.

1980

Includes: Iran hostage crisis • U.S. Hockey victory • Soviets invade Afghanistan • Mount St. Helens • Love Canal • Polish solidarity • Chrysler bailout.

1981

Includes: Iran hostages released • Ronald Reagan inaugurated • MTV • assassination attempts against Reagan and the Pope • PCs &VCRs • Charles &Diana • AIDS • Anwar Sadat assassination.

1982

Includes: Vietnam memorial • Falkland Islands war • ERA defeat • Israeli invasion of Lebanon • Tylenol poisonings • Anti-nuclear protest • Artificial heart implanted • Poland.

1983

Includes: U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe • Grenada invasion • education report • Star Wars • Beningo Aquino assassination • firsts in America • U.S. Embassy/Marine barracks bombed.

1984

Includes: Bhopal disaster • new patriotism • Central America • Presidential campaigns • L.A. Olympics • Bernard Goetz • Indira Gandhi assassination • Iran/Iraq war.

1985

Includes: Mikhail Gorbachev rises to power • Live Aid/Farm Aid concerts • terrorism • Apartheid in South Africa • crack • Contras • AIDS • Pete Rose • Poland • corporate buyouts.

1986

Includes: Challenger disaster • Iceland Summit • Oliver North • Chernobyl disaster • homelessness in America • Statue of Liberty centennial • Kurt Waldheim • U.S. bombs Libya.

1987

Includes: Stock Market crash • AIDS • Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker • Pope visits Poland • Gorbachev visits America • Contra Affair • Japan in America • Constitution bicentennial.

1988

Includes: Environmental issues • Reagan and Gorbachev • Navy in the Persian Gulf • Pan Am Flight 103 • election • Wall Street buyouts • PLO renounces terrorism • Benazir Bhutto.

1989

Includes: Soviet Union crumbles • Berlin Wall falls • Manual Noriega • Exxon Valdez disaster • San Francisco earthquake • war on drugs • student protests in China • Romania • S&L crisis • George Bush.

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