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My Century Episodes

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    La Pasionaria's Spanish Civil War

    Dolores Ibarruri won her fame with her fiery oratory rallying the anti-fascist forces

  2. Singing for Bangladesh and Independence

    Naila Zaman Khan sung to raise the spirits of refugees fleeing east Pakistan

  3. Chaos Theory

    The complexities of real life - from weather patterns or the changes in world markets

  4. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

    The original manuscript is strewn with notations, calculations - and errors

  5. Helsinki - Living in Darkness

    The Finnish city's festival of light is cheering when it's dark for six months of the year

  6. Quantum Mechanics

    Hans Bethe on the most influential branch of physics to have emerged in the 20th Century

  7. The Transit Strike of New York is Dealt with by Mayor

    Ed Koch encouraged people to "walk over" the bridges that connect New York's islands

  8. Pioneering Movie Special Effects

    Ray Harryhausen was inspired to become an animator when watching King Kong in 1933

  9. African Film-maker

    Portraying injustice a theme of Jean Marie Teno's films. It's got him into trouble

  10. Moving From the Country to the City

    "I'd never seen a building with tiles. I'd been living in a village in a round hut"

  11. Filming History

    Stanley Forman filmed world events to show what war really meant for ordinary people

  12. Changing Attitudes to Women through Indian Cinema

    How stardom has helped Shabana Azmi make films that challenge traditional attitudes

  13. Women of the World

    Women who have made their mark on the 20th Century from a prison reformer to a suffragette

  14. Aspects of Mental Health

    Patients and professionals talk about the mental health issues that have affected them

  15. Last of Their Generation

    Remembering Stalin, the French Resistance, underwater photography and the Bloomsbury Group

  16. Votes for Women in Britain

    Protests, hunger strikes, sleep deprivation and prison were endured by suffragettes

  17. Fighting Under the Israeli Flag

    Netiva Ben Yehu joined the Jewish underground to fight against the British and the Arabs

  18. Improving Prisons in India

    Kiran Bedi converted Tihar jail into a place of reformation - an ashram

  19. Retaining Dignity Under Apartheid

    "Our freedom is such a precious thing for us in South Africa"

  20. Building the 20th Century

    Architecture and its development - how building design changed over the 20th Century

  21. Shah of Iran is Exiled

    Farah Pahlavi, the Shah's wife on living elsewhere, from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas

  22. Palestinian Exodus

    Audeh Rantisi on being exiled to the West Bank in July 1948

  23. Building Tower Blocks

    Ivor Smith was one of the architects behind the Park Hill estate in Sheffield

  24. Traditional Egyptian Houses for the Future

    Architect Adel Fahmy onn using natural building materials to construct domes and vaults

  25. Shopping Malls

    Bafana Khumalo takes us on a tour of Sandtown City, the largest shopping mall in Africa

  26. Seagram Building

    The iconic Manhattan skyscraper was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  27. Airport Building in China

    Hong Kong's old airport Kai Tak, nostalgically remembered by pilot Jim Eckers

  28. Four Gold Medals at the Berlin Olympics

    Jesse Owens won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the long jump at the 1936 Olympics

  29. Breaking Test Cricket Records

    Cricketer Brian Lara on making 375 runs for the West Indies against England

  30. Pushing The Limits

    Accounts of people whose exploits and explorations pushed them to the limits of endurance

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