Iran under the Pahlavi Dynasty: The Heirs of Cyrus the Great | Full Documentary, 1974 | Scanned in 4K

Premiered Nov 10, 2022 | Our newly-scanned documentary in 4K-resolution from 1974 shows the state of Persia in the early 20th Century and rise to power of the Pahlavi Dynasty, the founding of the modern Imperial State of Iran with political and cultural changes to the everyday life, as well as its fate in World War II and the Cold War under the forced outside influence of the global superpowers and further societal modernisation under Shah Mohammad Reza until shortly before the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution.