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Season 20 Episode 5 - Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, the self-proclaimed 'king of kings', celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian monarchy by throwing the greatest party in history. Money was no object - a lavish tent city, using 37km of silk, was erected in a specially created oasis. The world's top restaurant at the time, Maxim's, closed its doors for two weeks to cater the event, a five-course banquet served to over sixty of the world's kings, queens and presidents, and washed down with some of the rarest wines known to man. Over a decadent five-day period, guests were treated to a pageant of thousands of soldiers dressed in ancient Persian costume, a 'son et lumiere' at the foot of Darius the Great's temple, and the opening of the Azadi Tower in Tehran, designed to honour the Shah himself.
Episodes in Season 20
The Golden Age of Circus: The Show of Shows
85 min
The Great Gangster Film Fraud
85 min
A Death Row Tale: The Fear of 13
85 min
The Toughest Horse Race in the World: Palio
85 min
Decadence and Downfall: The Shah of Iran's Ultimate Party
85 min
The Black Panthers
85 min
Bolshoi's Babylon
85 min
My Nazi Legacy
85 min
Being Evel Knievel
85 min
Unlocking The Cage
85 min
Moazzam Begg: Living the War on Terror
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (1)
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (2)
85 min
Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon (3)
85 min
Chasing Asylum - Inside Australia's Detention Camps
85 min
Weiner - Sexts, Scandals and Politics
85 min
Jim - The James Foley Story
85 min
Brides for Sale - Sonita
85 min
The Cult that Stole Children - Inside the Family
85 min
Forever Pure - Football and Racism in Jerusalem
85 min
