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Falklands War - The Untold Story (1987) Five years after the war in the Falklands between Britain and Argentina, many facts were still wrapped in red tape. Many of the key figures had remained silent. No-one had been to Argentina to tell the other side of the story. For the majority of the British people, the war was another glorious chapter in their history. With flags waving and bands playing, British troops had sailed away to repel the invaders. Patriotic emotions were stirred as they returned victorious. 'The Falklands War - The Untold Story', shot in Britain, the United States, Argentina and the Falklands, revealed for the first time to the British public the harsh realities of modern warfare. It caused controversy in Britain because it also told Argentina's story. Government MPs tried to get the film banned, but Yorkshire TV's telephones were jammed with messages of support from wives and mothers of those who died in the conflict. Called 'the documentary to end all documentaries about the Falklands War' in the British press, it was also described as 'more poem than polemic - a hymn against war'.

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[BarefootArizona]

The Argentine people are to blame for this. Going up against Britain was STUPID.

[DaveWBedford]

@BarefootArizona Absolutely. They simply didn't think Britain had the backbone for a fight and would just sit back and let them take over the Falklands.

Boy were they wrong.

[AndrewTubbiolo]

@Emiliencba Those Islands were British before Argentina was a nation. The first humans to step foot on those islands were British. Argentina has no claim to those islands anymore than the United States has a claim to Cuba. Let the British citizens of the Falklands be British the way they have and want to be.

[takion76]

@AndrewTubbiolo That was (approximately) the Argentne policy during the 60s AFAIK. Argentine President Illia set up links in different areas with them because at that time, the UK didn't pay much attention to them. But the war spoiled everything!

[takion76]

@anlaff What the defeat did was the last stroke... before the war, the Junta was on the verge of falling anyway, and the the defeat sped up the fall. And besides, the fall of the dictatorship wasn't Britain's goal. So how come we have to be grateful? By the same token the Falklanders should be grateful to Argentina because the war brought them a much better standard of living (British citizenship, etc.), but I clearly understand them if they aren't any grateful. I agree the war was useless...

[anlaff]

@elargentinounico1982 - in 1982 britain did argentina a massive favour, with defeat came democracy, the fascists that murdered so many of your own people were deposed and you got a vote, you should be thanking us you ungrateful bunch of idiots

[DaveWBedford]

@AndrewTubbiolo Haha! Well it's better than giving the Falklanders TVs on HP like they did in '82.

[AndrewTubbiolo]

@nicholasraul Do you really want the Falkland Islands? Here's how you do it. Set up a free ferry service and free college for all Falkland Islander teenagers with access to the best parties and dance clubs in Buenos Aries. Half the kids will marry Argentine husbands and wives. In 40 years 60% of the Falkland Islanders will have grandparents, cousins, uncles, and aunts in Argentina. In 50 years the Falklanders will ask to be part of Argentina and everything will be finished.

[AndrewTubbiolo]

@nicholasraul Everybody conquers someone else at one time or another. Spain was conquered from the Moors who stole the land from the Iberians, who had their land stolen by the Romans etc... Spain stole Texas, Fla, Mexico, you name it from the Indians, and the Indians were stealing from each other. At some point it has to end. Everybody has a claim to someone else's land.

[AndrewTubbiolo]

@locoxfiat Do you really think the USA would EVER choose your side over England. Please don't delude yourself. What is Argentina to the USA over England. We will always need them more than we will ever need Argentina. And let's face it. When it comes to alliance, England delivers.

[nicholasraul]

The head of the British Foreign Office's American department in

1936 stated that about Falklands "it is therefore not easy to explain our possession without showing ourselves up as international bandits."!

[nicholasraul]

@AndrewTubbiolo USA attacked Spanish region of Florida,Texas and California among others. Really you think they have rights over Cuba?

Did Argentine invade the Islands first, I mean in 1833 and are the real pirates or ... not?

Did Spanish countries invade the Islands in XVIII century taking them from Spanish countries?

Did Argentine invade 5(five) times England, first in XVIII century, then in 1806 and 1807 to Buenos Aires two times and Montevideo also

British 1936"we're...international bandits!

[powermugu]

Good documentary but with an agenda. I'm sure that 99% of the people who fought are proud of what they did and would do it all over again. A man is worthless without pride, and if you feared to defend what's yours you will be reduced to an animal that just eats and shits and reproduces.