TV SERIES
Secret Lives
Documentary
Looking at the private lives of famous historical figures.
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Episodes
10 EpisodesSecret Lives • EP 1
011. 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.
Secret Lives • EP 2
022. 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.
Secret Lives • EP 3
033. 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.
Secret Lives • EP 4
044. Jackie
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' 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.
Secret Lives • EP 5
055. 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.
Secret Lives • EP 6
066. Edward VIII: The Traitor King - Part 2
A look at Edward's relationship with Adolf Hitler and his part in the fall of France.
Secret Lives • EP 7
077. 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.
Secret Lives • EP 8
088. Baden-Powell the Boy-Man
Examines the life of Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout movement.
Secret Lives • EP 9
099. Howard Hughes
Profile of businessman Howard Hughes with comments from friends and those he worked with including, Janet Leigh, Lawrence Quirk, Arelo Sederberg, Michael Drosnin (biographer) and Robert Maheu (press secretary).
Secret Lives • EP 10
1010. Che Guevara
An examination of the romantic revolutionary icon. Includes an assessment of his relationship with Castro and the role he played in the final push of the Cuban Revolution with an interview with Gary Prado, Che Guevara's captor in Bolivia. The film challenges the assumption that Che was killed by the CIA.