An Ocean Apart: US-UK Relations TV Series + Profumo Affair MP4 DVD Set
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Eminent British Television Journalist David Dimbleby Presents This 7 Part Documentary TV Series On The History Of British–American Relations From The Beginning Of The First World War And Wilson To The End Of The Cold War And Thatcher (Color, 1988, 7 Episodes Of 1 Hour Each) PLUS BONUS TITLE: SPIES: THE HONEY TRAP, An Episode Of The Venerable Golden Age Of Cable TV Documentary Series On The Profumo Affair, A Major Sexpionage Scandal In Which An MI5 Operation, Involving The Women Of Americanized British Establishment Osteopath And Pimp Simon Ward, To Sexually Blackmail Soviet Agent Yevgeny Ivanov, Went Wrong When The Bait, 19-Year-Old Courtesan Christine Keeler, Became Involved With Britsh Secretary Of State For War John Profumo Instead, Backfiring On All Involved And Ultimately Resulting In The Downfall Of Harold Macmillan's Conservative Government (Color, 1993, 24 Minutes) -- All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS In An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality 4 Disc All Regions Format DVD Set!
Contents:
VOL. 1
Episode 1: Hats Off To Mr. Wilson (World War I)
Episode 2: Home In Pasadena (The 1920s)
VOL. 2
Episode 3: Here Come The British! Bang! Bang! (The 1930s)
Episode 4: Trust Me To The Bitter End (World War II)
VOL. 3
Episode 5: If You Don't Like Our Peaches, Quit Shaking Our Tree (Post World War II To The 1956 Suez Crisis)
Episode 6: Under The Eagle's Wing (Post Suez Crisis To 1970s)
VOL. 4
Episode 7: Turning Up The Volume (The Falklands War And The 1980s)
BONUS TITLE: SPIES: THE HONEY TRAP
United Kingdom - United States Relations: Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have ranged from two early wars to competition for world markets. Since 1940 the countries have been close military allies enjoying the Special Relationship built as wartime allies and NATO partners. They are bound together by shared history, an overlap in religion, common language, legal system and kinship ties that reach back hundreds of years, including kindred, ancestral lines among English Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, Cornish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Irish Americans, and American Britons. Today, large numbers of expatriates live in both countries. In the early 21st century, Britain affirmed its relationship with the United States as its "most important bilateral partnership" in the current British foreign policy, and the American foreign policy also affirms its relationship with Britain as its most important relationship, as evidenced in aligned political affairs, mutual cooperation in the areas of trade, commerce, finance, technology, academics, as well as the arts and sciences; the sharing of government and military intelligence, and joint combat operations and peacekeeping missions carried out between the United States Armed Forces and the British Armed Forces. Canada has historically been the largest importer of U.S. goods and the principal exporter of goods to the United States. As of January 2015, the United Kingdom was fifth in terms of exports and seventh in terms of import of goods. In long-term perspective, the historian Paul Johnson has called the United Kingdom-United States relations "cornerstone of the modern, democratic world order". The two countries also have had a significant impact of the cultures of many other countries. They are the two main nodes of the Anglosphere, with a combined population of just under 400 million in 2019. Together, they have given the English language a dominant role in many sectors of the modern world.
The Profumo Affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961. Profumo denied the affair in a statement to the House of Commons in 1963; weeks later, a police investigation proved that he had lied. The scandal severely damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government, and Macmillan resigned as Prime Minister in October 1963, citing ill health. The fallout contributed to the Conservative government's defeat by the Labour Party in the 1964 general election. When the Profumo affair was revealed, public interest was heightened by reports that Keeler may have been simultaneously involved with Captain Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet naval attache, thereby creating a possible national security risk. Keeler knew both Profumo and Ivanov through her friendship with Stephen Ward, an osteopath, socialite and high-class pimp who had taken her under his wing. The exposure of the affair generated rumours of other sex scandals and drew official attention to the activities of Ward, who was charged with a series of immorality offences. Perceiving himself as a scapegoat for the misdeeds of others, Ward took a fatal overdose during the final stages of his trial, which found him guilty of living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davies. An inquiry into the Profumo affair by a senior judge, Lord Denning, assisted by a senior civil servant, T. A. Critchley, concluded that there had been no breaches of security arising from the Ivanov connection. Denning's report was later described as superficial and unsatisfactory. Profumo subsequently worked as a volunteer at Toynbee Hall, an East London charitable trust. By 1975 he had been officially rehabilitated, although he did not return to public life. He died, honoured and respected, in 2006. By contrast, Keeler found it difficult to escape the negative image attached to her by press, law, and parliament throughout the scandal. In various, sometimes contradictory, accounts, she challenged Denning's conclusions relating to security issues. Ward's conviction has been described by analysts as an act of establishment revenge, rather than serving justice; despite this, Ward was accused by both Keeler and Ivanov of having supplied British and American military and nuclear secrets obtained from his osteopathic clients to Ivanov. In the 2010s the Criminal Cases Review Commission reviewed his case, but decided against referring it to the Court of Appeal. Dramatisations of the Profumo affair have been shown on stage and screen.
Eminent British Television Journalist David Dimbleby Presents This 7 Part Documentary TV Series On The History Of British–American Relations From The Beginning Of The First World War And Wilson To The End Of The Cold War And Thatcher (Color, 1988, 7 Episodes Of 1 Hour Each) PLUS BONUS TITLE: SPIES: THE HONEY TRAP, An Episode Of The Venerable Golden Age Of Cable TV Documentary Series On The Profumo Affair, A Major Sexpionage Scandal In Which An MI5 Operation, Involving The Women Of Americanized British Establishment Osteopath And Pimp Simon Ward, To Sexually Blackmail Soviet Agent Yevgeny Ivanov, Went Wrong When The Bait, 19-Year-Old Courtesan Christine Keeler, Became Involved With Britsh Secretary Of State For War John Profumo Instead, Backfiring On All Involved And Ultimately Resulting In The Downfall Of Harold Macmillan's Conservative Government (Color, 1993, 24 Minutes) -- All Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS In An MP4 Video Download Or Archival Quality 4 Disc All Regions Format DVD Set!
Contents:
VOL. 1
Episode 1: Hats Off To Mr. Wilson (World War I)
Episode 2: Home In Pasadena (The 1920s)
VOL. 2
Episode 3: Here Come The British! Bang! Bang! (The 1930s)
Episode 4: Trust Me To The Bitter End (World War II)
VOL. 3
Episode 5: If You Don't Like Our Peaches, Quit Shaking Our Tree (Post World War II To The 1956 Suez Crisis)
Episode 6: Under The Eagle's Wing (Post Suez Crisis To 1970s)
VOL. 4
Episode 7: Turning Up The Volume (The Falklands War And The 1980s)
BONUS TITLE: SPIES: THE HONEY TRAP
United Kingdom - United States Relations: Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States have ranged from two early wars to competition for world markets. Since 1940 the countries have been close military allies enjoying the Special Relationship built as wartime allies and NATO partners. They are bound together by shared history, an overlap in religion, common language, legal system and kinship ties that reach back hundreds of years, including kindred, ancestral lines among English Americans, Scottish Americans, Welsh Americans, Cornish Americans, Scotch-Irish Americans, Irish Americans, and American Britons. Today, large numbers of expatriates live in both countries. In the early 21st century, Britain affirmed its relationship with the United States as its "most important bilateral partnership" in the current British foreign policy, and the American foreign policy also affirms its relationship with Britain as its most important relationship, as evidenced in aligned political affairs, mutual cooperation in the areas of trade, commerce, finance, technology, academics, as well as the arts and sciences; the sharing of government and military intelligence, and joint combat operations and peacekeeping missions carried out between the United States Armed Forces and the British Armed Forces. Canada has historically been the largest importer of U.S. goods and the principal exporter of goods to the United States. As of January 2015, the United Kingdom was fifth in terms of exports and seventh in terms of import of goods. In long-term perspective, the historian Paul Johnson has called the United Kingdom-United States relations "cornerstone of the modern, democratic world order". The two countries also have had a significant impact of the cultures of many other countries. They are the two main nodes of the Anglosphere, with a combined population of just under 400 million in 2019. Together, they have given the English language a dominant role in many sectors of the modern world.
The Profumo Affair was a major scandal in British politics during the early 1960s. John Profumo, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for War in Harold Macmillan's Conservative government, had an extramarital affair with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler beginning in 1961. Profumo denied the affair in a statement to the House of Commons in 1963; weeks later, a police investigation proved that he had lied. The scandal severely damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government, and Macmillan resigned as Prime Minister in October 1963, citing ill health. The fallout contributed to the Conservative government's defeat by the Labour Party in the 1964 general election. When the Profumo affair was revealed, public interest was heightened by reports that Keeler may have been simultaneously involved with Captain Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet naval attache, thereby creating a possible national security risk. Keeler knew both Profumo and Ivanov through her friendship with Stephen Ward, an osteopath, socialite and high-class pimp who had taken her under his wing. The exposure of the affair generated rumours of other sex scandals and drew official attention to the activities of Ward, who was charged with a series of immorality offences. Perceiving himself as a scapegoat for the misdeeds of others, Ward took a fatal overdose during the final stages of his trial, which found him guilty of living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davies. An inquiry into the Profumo affair by a senior judge, Lord Denning, assisted by a senior civil servant, T. A. Critchley, concluded that there had been no breaches of security arising from the Ivanov connection. Denning's report was later described as superficial and unsatisfactory. Profumo subsequently worked as a volunteer at Toynbee Hall, an East London charitable trust. By 1975 he had been officially rehabilitated, although he did not return to public life. He died, honoured and respected, in 2006. By contrast, Keeler found it difficult to escape the negative image attached to her by press, law, and parliament throughout the scandal. In various, sometimes contradictory, accounts, she challenged Denning's conclusions relating to security issues. Ward's conviction has been described by analysts as an act of establishment revenge, rather than serving justice; despite this, Ward was accused by both Keeler and Ivanov of having supplied British and American military and nuclear secrets obtained from his osteopathic clients to Ivanov. In the 2010s the Criminal Cases Review Commission reviewed his case, but decided against referring it to the Court of Appeal. Dramatisations of the Profumo affair have been shown on stage and screen.