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Dispatches

Season 2 · Episode 17

War in the Desert

0.045mMay 20, 1988

The first documentary about a war that has been going on for 13 years in the Sahara Desert between Morocco and a rebel army known as the Polisario.

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Episode 1The Miner's Debate
Episode 2Waiting for the Consultant
Episode 3Danger! Men at Work
Episode 4Interview with John Stalker
Episode 5Iran: A Widening Gulf
Episode 6Palau: Paradise Lost
Episode 7Working for Welfare
Episode 8Radioactive Britain
Episode 9The Lobby
Episode 10Charity Fraud
Episode 11Single Union Deals With Employers
Episode 12Cuba From Inside
Episode 13Talking to the Terrorists
Episode 14Cancer Research
Episode 15Freemasonry
Episode 16The P.L.O.
Episode 17War in the Desert
Episode 18NATO's Nuclear Programme
Episode 19Illegal Betting
Episode 20What's Best for the Children? : Coventry
Episode 21The Raid on San Fernando: Communist Rebels in The Philippines
Episode 22Milky Business
Episode 23The Hashish Connection
Episode 24Disciples of Chaos
Episode 25Trouble on the Waterfront
Episode 26The Two State Solution
Episode 27Turkey: Trading with Torture
Episode 28Exporting High Technology from West to East
Episode 29Tibet - A Case to Answer
Episode 30The Day the Dream Died
Episode 31The Winds of Death
Episode 32The Battle for Stone Bassett
Episode 33The Countertraders
Episode 34A Very Polish Secret