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Birth of a Nation

From Chairman Mao declaring the People's Republic of China to Ghana's independence

• 28 mins

New Home, Old Faith

Mohammed Accram Khan-Cheema on how he almost lost touch with Islam when he emigrated

• 4 mins

Losing a Loved One

Helia Lopez Zarsoza's sister's fiancé's disappearance and how her faith helps her

• 4 mins

After Amritsar

Aftar Singh on being caught up in Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple in Amristar

• 4 mins

Surviving the Holocaust

Lucille Eichengreen saw her entire family killed, what affect has it had on her faith?

• 4 mins

No Healthcare for Prisoners

"What they really need is treatment", says prisoner Gilberto Fernandez

• 4 mins

Reporting the Nuremberg Trials

Stefan Heyn on the defendents responsible for the horrific events of the Holocaust

• 4 mins

An Enemy of the State in Maoist China

Nien Cheng was imprisoned in solitary confinement for six and a half years

• 4 mins

Wartime Love and Persecution

Gad Beck on life in Nazi Germany as a gay man and how he lost his true love

• 4 mins

Surviving a Soviet Labour Camp

At 28, the Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya was imprisoned for her writing

• 3 mins

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

"Apartheid was all pervasive" – Dr Fazel Randera on South Africa's human rights abuses

• 4 mins

Enniskillen Bombing

Noreen Hill on how her husband was severely injured at the Remembrance Day bombing

• 4 mins

The Contraceptive Pill

Maureen describes her life before the pill and how it changed when she started to take it

• 4 mins

Geisha Girl

Kiharu Nakamura talks about becoming a high class entertainer in Japan

• 4 mins

Living with HIV/Aids

"When I discovered I was HIV positive, I knew life had to go on"

• 4 mins

Deep Diver

Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard travelled 11,000 metres to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

• 4 mins

Walking to the North Pole

Sue and Victoria Riches were the first British women to walk to the North Pole

• 4 mins

Popularising Bungee Jumping

Bungee pioneer AJ Hackett on how he made the extreme sport popular around the world.

• 4 mins

Paralympic Gold Medallist

"Disability really hasn't prevented me from doing anything at all."

• 4 mins

Pushing The Limits - Women Pilots

The American pilot Fay Gillis Wells remembers her friend and fellow aviator Amelia Earhart

• 4 mins

Sex Montage

How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century for the good - and not so good

• 28 mins

The Four Minute Mile

Roger Bannister remembers the May evening in 1954 when he ran a mile in four minutes

• 4 mins

First Olympic Gold Medal for Morocco

Nawal el Moutawakel remembers the race that won her Olympic gold in 1984 for 400m hurdles

• 4 mins

Pushing The Limits

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

• 28 mins

Breaking Test Cricket Records

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

• 4 mins

Four Gold Medals at the Berlin Olympics

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

• 4 mins

Airport Building in China

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

• 4 mins

Seagram Building

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

• 4 mins

Shopping Malls

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

• 4 mins

Traditional Egyptian Houses for the Future

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

• 4 mins