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Vietnam - US Prisoner of War

In August 1964, Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces.

• 15 mins

Malaysian Hostage Crisis

In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

• 9 mins

Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl

It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

• 9 mins

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

• 9 mins

Burma's 1988 Protests

In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

• 9 mins

Bombing of Nagasaki

Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

• 9 mins

The Opening of Euro Disney

Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.

• 15 mins

Conflict in Congo

The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

• 9 mins

Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

• 9 mins

The Battle of the Potato Beetle

In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

• 9 mins

The Omagh Bombing

In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

• 9 mins

Stanley Kubrick

Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

• 9 mins

The Nepali Royal Massacre

In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.

• 15 mins

Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'

The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War

• 9 mins

Prague Spring

The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

• 9 mins

The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

• 9 mins

Legionnaires' Disease

In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia

• 9 mins

Brazil Protests: Caras Pintadas

In 1992, a huge wave of protests forced President Collor of Brazil from office.

• 9 mins

The Ballerina and the Coup

In 1959, Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot to overthrow the Panama government

• 15 mins

Krakatoa

In 1883, the Indonesian volcano caused one of the world's biggest disasters

• 9 mins

The Sherri Finkbine Abortion Case

How one Arizona couple's campaign for a termination split America in 1962

• 9 mins

I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington

• 9 mins

Aboriginal Strike

The first ever strike by Australian Aborigines to help free them from virtual slavery

• 9 mins

Women Murdered in Mexico

In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

• 9 mins

Eritrea's Long War

A doctor who took part in Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence from Ethiopia

• 9 mins

Jack The Ripper

In September 1888, the most famous serial killer in history stalked the streets of London.

• 9 mins

Fleeing from Laos

In 1973 the American war against communism in Laos ended leaving their allies behind

• 9 mins

Special Operations Executive

During WWII Britain set up a secret organisation to wage war in Nazi occupied Europe

• 9 mins

HMS Trinidad

George Lloyd, a young English composer, wrote a march for the ship he served on in WWII

• 9 mins

The Chile Coup

In September 1973 General Pinochet launched a coup in Chile. Ariel Dorfman was there.

• 14 mins