On the Box

As it Happened: Cuban Missile Crisis
Declassified — Compiles historic images and
eyewitness accounts from the United States, Russia, Cuba,
Germany and the Vatican. SBS, Saturday, October 30, 7.30pm.

Unprecedented: How Bush won Florida
— Examines a suspicious pattern of
irregularities, injustices and voter purges in the 2000 US
presidential election — all in a state governed by the
winning candidate's brother, Jeb Bush. SBS, Monday, November
1, 1pm.

CIA: Secret Wars — Looks at
how the CIA dealt with the rise of Islamic terrorism and how
it adjusted to the end of the Cold War. SBS, Tuesday, November
2, 12.55am.

Cutting Edge: The Choice 2004
— As Americans prepare to choose their next president,
PBS's Frontline offers viewers a special,
two-part dual biography of the two candidates who hope to lead
the nation for the next four years. SBS, Tuesday, November 2,
8.30pm.

East Timor: Birth of a Nation:
Rosa's Story — Rosa Martins fled East Timor in September
1999. Now returned, she hopes to reunite her family and give
her children the opportunities denied her by war and poverty.
ABC, Tuesday, November 2, 12.45am.

Lu Olo's Story — For over 20
years, Lu Olo was a guerrilla fighter in the East Timorese
struggle against Indonesian occupation. ABC, Wednesday,
November 3, 12.25am.

Stories From A Children's Hospital: Outreach
— As pediatricians struggle to deliver
modern medical science to children in remote Aboriginal
communities, the state of Indigenous health remains a national
tragedy. ABC, Thursday, November, 8pm.

Storyline Australia: Unholy
Orders — Documents a group of people
fighting back against the Catholic nuns who abused and
silenced them as children. SBS, Thursday, November 4, 8.30pm.

From Green Left Weekly, October 27, 2004.

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