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From Gorbachev to Milošević, documentary filmmaker Norma Percy has persuaded the past half-century’s most powerful people to tell their stories. Can her technique for truth-telling survive the disinformation age? ....
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Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 06.56 EDT As historian, biographer and documentary film-maker, Cate Haste, who has died aged 75 of lung cancer, explored remarkable lives and how people relate to each other, both historically and personally. For Jeremy Isaacs’s 24-part series Cold War (1998) for BBC Two/CNN, covering the period from 1945 to 1991, she made five episodes. They told of how fear was mobilised both in the west and in eastern Europe, life behind the iron curtain, how the Berlin Wall was built, and in 1989 how it came down. Filming took her to the US, where President George HW Bush was a contributor, and to Prague, with Václav Havel, to recount how the Prague spring thaw in the Soviet bloc was crushed by invading tanks in 1968. ....