At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader.

International Terrorism Since 1945 is a television documentary series, shown on UKTV History from 5 January 2009. Narrated by Robert Powell, it is shown in half-hour episodes at 5:00 pm and 5:30 pm and depicts a history of some major terrorist groups since World War 2 and their activities.

From the inner workings of the RAF. Former RAF-member Peter-Jürgen Boock reveal the many secrets and myths about the Baader-Meinhof gang a.k.a. RAF - Rote Armee Fraktion.

How could the son of a graduate historian and a secretary, who liked to adorn himself with fast cars, fake eyelashes and expensive clothes, who wanted to become an artist, journalist or film director, become the "public enemy No. 1"?

Who are the men and women who bring bloody death to innocent civilians? Why do they do it? What are their methods? And how do they justify it?

Documents a one-week meeting of radical leftist activists known as "Knastkamp" (Prison battle), which took place in July 1969 in Ebrach, Bamberg.

How the graduate student Gudrun Ensslin became a radical and violent woman. After the department store fire in Frankfurt, November 1968, in which Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader was involved the violence and their actions escalated. Soon they were joined by Ulrike Meinhof, Together the three created the urban guerrilla of West Germany, the Baader-Meinhof Gang a.k.a. die RAF - die Rote Armee Fraktion. An episode out of Panorama, NDR.

"The Subscription" - a young man is tormented daily by a newspaper subscription that brings him news of a brutal and corrupt world.