First Tuesday
Season 6
1988 · 12 episodes
1. Cambodia: Children of the Killing Fields
1988-04-05
2. The Swap
1988-05-03
Two working class families swap places in a social experiment to see whether, under Thatcher's Britain, the North-South divide is actually more stark than the class divide.
3. A Quiet Scream/Sato: A Child Apart
1988-06-07
4. Bridge Across the Foyle/Albania: The Last Outpost
1988-07-05
5. Children of the Third Reich/Last Exit: Berlin
1988-08-02
Children of the Third Reich - More than 40 years after the end of World War II, the children of Nazi soldiers are still coming to terms with the awful truth. Last Exit Berlin - Documentary about Palestinian refugees, who had fled the war in Lebanon, seeking asylum in West Germany.
6. The Bofors Affair
1988-09-06
7. Afghantsi
1988-10-04
Documentary about the Afghantsi who are the military veterans of "Russia's Vietnam", the Afghan war. The film follows the Red Army from the start of the withdrawal in May 1988. It goes in the barracks of the crack paratroop regiment; the wards of Kabul's military hospital; on a helicopter gunship to a mountain outpost where Soviet conscripts serve unrelieved for 18 months.
8. The Apostle and the Prophet/School Is Out
1988-11-01
9. Too Close to Home
1988-12-06
Documentary about the people who have died of asbestos cancer because they worked in or just lived near asbestos factories or buildings containing asbestos.
10. Murder in Ostankino Precinct
1989-01-03
Documentary which follows a murder investigation in Moscow from the discovery of the body to the arrest and interrogation of the final suspect.
11. Pedigree Chums/The Wigan Hold
1989-02-07
12. A Heartbeat Away/Woman v. Bull
1989-03-07
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