Greece - The Hidden War (1986) [banned film]

Greece - The Hidden War (1986) [banned film]

This is a British political documentary produced in 1986 and shown for just one and only time in British television, thereby being BANNED (including all but one copies destroyed) concerning the involvement of British Government in Greece's political affairs during and after WW2, one that is argued to have been the main catalyst in the breaking out of the Greek Civil War in Greece, followed by American involvement in the Civil War Battle (in line with the Truman Doctrine).

The documentary consists mainly of interviews of Greek, British and American participants, soldiers, officials, politicians and folk people, that make up the two parts of the documentary:

1) The first, concerns the events in which the ELAS movement, the Greek resistance group (leftist orientated, yet made up of people of widely different political views, thus of wide social base), clashes with Churchill's plans for postwar Greece and the British' internal allies,

2) the second part concerns the American involvement and the events of the Greek civil war until its closure with the defeat of the Democratic Army in the mountains of Grammos and Vitsi.

The only reference to it on the internet I found was the following: http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/8343

The parts of this documentary in my possession are the ones called "The Battle for Athens" and "The Civil War"

It is a collective item least to say. It was shown in Greek television channel ET1 on the 13/4/2006 by the documentary series "Θεματικη Βραδια" (translated as "Thematic Evening"..sadly the show has now been canceled) and was ripped and encoded by a member in some private greek tracker.