Murder in the Pacific

Name: Murder in the Pacific
Released: 2023-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary · Crime

The story of the fatal bombing of Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior by a team of French Secret Service agents in New Zealand in 1985, ordered to prevent the environmental campaigners from protesting against France's nuclear testing.

2023 · 43m

Director Chloe Campbell

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

In May 1985, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has just returned from a visit to Rongelap in the Marshall Islands, whose inhabitants are suffering the horrific effects of nuclear fallout following the 1954 testing of the American H-bomb Bravo.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

International criminals operating in New Zealand might have expected to go unnoticed, but just one day after two explosions sink the Rainbow Warrior, police are overwhelmed with calls from New Zealanders who have spotted unusual goings-on.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

The bomber reveals how he came to plant the bombs on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior and the measures he took to escape New Zealand after the attack. He and another suspect reveal the origins of the mission.