Feature Film

1979: Big Bang of the Present

Name: 1979: Big Bang of the Present
Released: 2019-12-10
Rating: 5.7

5.72019 1h 29mNRDocumentaryHistoryTV MovieDir. Dirk van den Berg

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

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