Blowback
Blowback
- 50 minutes 5 secondsS6 Episode 1 - "The Dead Myth"
An introduction to and overview of our sixth season: the story of Angola, Cuba, and apartheid South Africa's Cold War showdown.
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22 September 2025, 1:00 pm - 1 minute 45 secondsComing Soon: Blowback Season 6
New episodes drop September 22. This season, Cuba sends an army to defend newly independent Angola from the combined forces of apartheid South Africa, the CIA, and one of the most infamous warlords of Africa.
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10 September 2025, 5:15 pm - 1 hour 10 minutesS5 Episode 10 - "The Terrible But Unfinished Story"
Wounded but not destroyed, Cambodia staggers into the 21st century.
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14 February 2025, 11:35 am - 1 hour 10 minutesS5 Episode 9 - "Le Cercle Rouge"
Vietnam ends Democratic Kampuchea and the US backs the Khmer Rouge.
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7 February 2025, 11:10 am - 1 hour 17 minutesS5 Episode 8 - "Third World War"
Khmer Rouge horrors spiral toward conflict with an ex-comrade: Vietnam.
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31 January 2025, 11:15 am - 1 hour 11 minutesS5 Episode 7 - "Less Than Zero"
Cambodia slips into darkness, as the Khmer Rouge seize the country.
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24 January 2025, 11:20 am - 1 hour 14 minutesS5 Episode 6 - "Dream Warriors"
The short-lived reign of the Khmer Republic; the end of Nixon.
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17 January 2025, 11:15 am - 1 hour 9 minutesS5 Episode 5 - "Last Tango In Paris"
One Cambodian coup, two US invasions and an unlikely American friend: China.
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10 January 2025, 11:15 am - 1 hour 15 minutesS5 Episode 4 - "Mad Men"
Nixon and Kissinger put Cambodia on the menu.
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3 January 2025, 11:30 am - 1 hour 14 minutesS5 Episode 3 - "Listen to the Thunder"
Sihanouk struggles to keep Cambodia out of LBJ's war in Vietnam.
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27 December 2024, 11:30 am - 1 hour 4 minutesS5 Episode 2 - "The French Connection"
Indochina rises up, the French Empire ends, the Cold War begins.
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