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Series 14

Episode 4: Battle for the Himalayas: The Fight to Film Everest

Duration: 60 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

The story of how film-makers turned the conquest of Himalayan peaks into great propaganda by Imperial Britain, Nazi Germany and superpower America from the 1920s to the 1960s. Show more

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