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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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