A Dying King: The Shah of Iran (2017)

The Shah of Iran: A Medical Story.

On January 16, 1979, the then Shah of Iran, left Iran commencing what became a 19-month odyssey to exile in Egypt, Morocco, Bahamas, Mexico, US, Panama, and back to Egypt again where he passed away. His death had profound consequences for the future of the middle east and the world, yet the untold medical story of the late Shah of Iran has to date remained a puzzling mystery. This documentary leads viewers to the main causes of the Iranian revolution, pursuant hostage crisis, and the state of relations between the U.S. and Iran.

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Bobak Kalhor

Self - Narrator

Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi

Self (archive footage)

Queen Farah Pahlavi Shahbanou Of Iran

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carter

Self (archive footage)

David Rockefeller

Self (archive footage)

Henry Kissinger

Self (archive footage)

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Ben Kean

Self (archive footage)

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Robert Armao

Self (archive footage)

Ruhollah Khomeini

Self (archive footage)

Anwar Sadat

Self (archive footage)

Michael DeBakey

Self (archive footage)

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Amir-Aslan Afshar

Self

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Jerry Berlin

Self

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Lyn Boyd-Judson

Self

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Jorge Cervantes

Self

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Morton Coleman

Self

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Gaspar Garcia de Parades

Self

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Manouchehr Ganji

Self

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Leon Morgenstern

Self

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Iraj Shaham

Self

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Abbas Safavian

Self

Ardeshir Zahedi

Self

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Reza Shah Pahlavi

Self (archive footage)

Ashraf Pahlavi

Self (archive footage)

Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

Self (archive footage)

Shahdokht Farahnaz Pahlavi

Self (archive footage)

Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi

Self (archive footage)

Shahdokht Leila Pahlavi

Self (archive footage)

Hamilton Jordan

Self (archive footage)

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Self (archive footage)

King Hassan II

Self (archive footage)

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing

Self (archive footage)

Assadollah Alam

Self (archive footage)

Barack Obama

Self (archive footage)

José López Portillo

Self (archive footage)

Gerald Ford

Self (archive footage)

James Callaghan

Self (archive footage)

Helmut Schmidt

Self (archive footage)

Donald Trump

Self (archive footage)

John Kerry

Self (archive footage)

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Self (archive footage)

Sadegh Ghotbzadeh

Self (archive footage)

Hassan Rouhani

Self (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei

Self (archive footage)

Rosalynn Carter

Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Self (archive footage)

Leonid Brezhnev

Self (archive footage)

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