Interesting TV Shows: "The Fidel Castro Tapes" on PBS ...and... "The Windsors" on CNN - Hours of Real Film of Castro With English Subtitles... The History of England During WW1 up to WW2

For Example: I did not know that King George the Fifth of England, Wilhelm of Germany and Czar Nickolas were Cousins and They All Looked Like Twins.  George V Refused to Allow Czar Nicholas to Flee to England with his Family after the Russian Revolution and so All the Romanovs Died...

The Fidel Castro Tapes has Films of Him Doing TV Interviews Before the Revolution in Cuba with Ernesto "Che" Guevara... Then they Show a Hero's Welcome Parade in New York City with Thousands of Americans Cheering Fidel... and Castro Meeting Vice President Richard Nixon... and Actual Film of Soldiers Invading Cuba at The Bay of Pigs.... They Show Film of Castro at Every Age All the Way to His Funeral and Raul Castro, His Brother Becoming Leader... With English Subtitles... Fascinating...

In 1959, Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba. He has been one of the most controversial figures in the world ever since. This is the story of the Cuban dictator's turbulent career, told in part through media reports, rare images and recordings.
https://www.pbs.org/show/fidel-castro-tapes/

The Episode I Saw of "The Windsors" was Mostly About England in the Era of World War One thru the Late 1930's. King George the Fifth CHANGED HIS NAME from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor to avoid The English People's Hatred of Germans... after all, there was a War Going on and British Boys were Killing Germans. He took the name from the Castle that his Family was Living In.   

His Son, Edward the Eighth, Did Not Want to Do the Formal Work of Being Monarch and Spent his Time Traveling the Globe talking to Subjects and Trying to Convince then that Having an English Man as King was a Great Idea... Eventually, he failed completely and there were Revolutions in India, Australia, Canada, Africa and Asia... Edward fell in love with a Married American Woman, Wallis Simpson. She got divorced and They Got Married BUT... The English People Insisted that he STOP BEING KING if he wanted to Marry her... So he abdicated the Throne... Difficult to Believe... but That's what life was like in 1936... 
https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-windsors-cnn-original-series

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