whoever wrote these subtitles is taking way too much creative liberty

We had quite a few iranian students in Germany. They thought the monarchy was obsolete and repressive. One day they had to go home 1973. 6 years later they lived under a religious dictatorship.

I was in Iran in 1975. I was just a young 21. There was such political tension in the air..i was basically oblivious. The coup was brewing. I was told, "do not say anything about the shah...people go missing & weeks later show back up only a shadow of what they once were...literally the victim of frontal lobotomies. Parts of their brains removed... walking vegetables. My head & mind were too young to understand I was in the experience of a lifetime, consequently, my experience was almost wasted on me...except for the fragments of my memories I can now pull up & connect dots & relive with this perspective. I will tell you I literally KISSED THE GROUND when we arrived back in NY. It's a shame what this radical revolution had done to this country. The people are the most lovely, giving, generous, with such decorum...& They loved the freedom... women with educations, etc. Very sad. As a guest in this country, they literally treated me like ROYALTY...preferring to feed me while denying themselves food. THAT part of my experience I will NEVER forget...the graciousness of the people.

It’s just like WEF in Davos why save starving children when you can spend that money partying and telling us how bad we are for not feeding starving children

A lot of the blame for the Iranian Revolution rests on us in the west too. If we hadn't forced out the elected Prime Minster of Iran, Mosaddegh, and installed the Shah as repressive dictator, then we wouldn't have the mess that we currently do. The worst part is we did it based on the lies that the British made up about Mosaddegh being communist because he wanted to nationalize the Anglo-Persian Oil Company since they were taking all the money out of Iran.

I was born and raised in Iran and I was 9 years old back then. I remember watching the marching of the armies through the centuries and I was mesmerized. For me. It was a lesson in the history of my own country.

I was young but I remember this on the news and in the papers. To millennials, the Near and Middle East must look like one enormous war zone but it has changed so much in the last fifty years. This is a fantastic documentary. There is so much detail here and how on Earth did you get all the radio, video and photos? Sorcery!

I knew a woman that had lived in Tehran a couple of years before the fall. Her husband worked from one of the international conglomerates and Katherine was a photo journalist. She said it was an absolutely fascinating city. Her pictures of herself at that time in Tehran were really cool. 😃👍👍

Barbara didn't have it right back then either, must be a flaw in her education. Her description of a constitutional monarchy could not be more wrong. What she described was an absolute monarchy. The View carries on in that established tradition faithfully.

It's so sad seeing the women walking around freely, having no idea that soon they'll be forced to cover themselves and forbidden from leaving their house unless accompanied by a male.

One of my good friends in Manhattan was a refugee from Tehran. My friend was an architect (and gay). His father had been an agent of the Shah's secret police, SAVAK. His mother was an antique dealer, who dealt with expensive original Persian carpets. When she fled Iran, she settled down in Washington, DC. My friend was quite a lovely educated and gentle person. He didn't have contact with his father, whom he despised. I hope the refugees of the Islamic Revolution have the opportunity to see their homeland again before they die.

Khomanni was in exile in france before the islamic reveloution. Khomanni made a promise not to make things religious to other oppoisition groups, therefore gaining thier support. He immediatly reniged.

I passed through Iran in 73 while the Shah was still in control. It was a fairly normal happy country but after the Shah left and the ayatollahs took over the whole place turned to rubbish.

My Iranian Dentist was sitting in one of her college classes when Islamic revolutionaries came in, told them to leave and never return. I'm glad her family got outta there.

This documentary shows that the city of Shiraz was a pour city that was just desert which is not true at all. Due to its major historical importance it has always been a prosperous city with wealth in it. Also, the documentary does not show the prosper the party brought to iran afterwards. Although the part costed immensely, it resulted beneficial for the country. Due to the party’s publicity many people from around the world wanted to go to visit iran in the following year, which it then brought a lot more money to the country that not only it cancelled the cost of the part but also a lot more. Another fact that needs to be taken with consideration is the fact that, women had a lot more freedom within the country then a lot of other western countries at the time.

This self-proclaimed King lost power because he distanced himself too much from the People, another problem was that he was soft, he grew up with a spoonful of gold, WHILE the people were starving. 😮

And nothing for the people has changed, they are still oppressed

Great documentary; so much to take in visually, and very nicely paced.

Astonishingly good documenting of the last days of the Shah's Iran - informative, chilling in parts, the 'scales drop from our eyes'. Who would've thought the arrogance, the dismissal of the powerless, the very decadence of the regime would herald the rise and still destructive history of the fundamentalists..!

Most of the rich educated Iranians came to settle in southern California before the fall. They are the largest group of Iranians outside of Iran.