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Making movies helped me heal after my dad's murder

Rwandan director Joël Karekezi explores the trauma he experienced during the 1994 genocide

• 29 mins

Attila the Nun

Arlene Violet, the American nun who took on the mob

• 26 mins

The coral crusaders: finding beauty in a murky world

How two punk rocker best friends created the world's first urban reef webcam

• 20 mins

Name, shame and jail: Ghana's undercover journalist

Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas uses some impressive disguises to go undercover.

• 24 mins

23 years longing to find my mum

Omar and Hassan Mohamed are two Somali brothers who never stopped looking for their mum

• 39 mins

The stolen Picasso and the forest quest

Why writer Mira Feticu looked for a stolen Picasso in a Romanian forest

• 20 mins

Discovering my grandfather's secret Nazi past

Growing up Julie Lindahl had been forbidden from looking into her family history

• 26 mins

The 25 day sit-in that changed history

Judy Heumann on the longest ever occupation of a federal building in US history

• 40 mins

The tycoon who became 'Mr Toilet'

Jack Sim is a Singaporean multi-millionaire who grew up without a working toilet

• 22 mins

I found my son 32 years after he was kidnapped

Li Jingzhi's child was abducted in 1988. They’ve finally been reunited 32 years later

• 34 mins

Fosse and Verdon: the legacy of a dancing family

Two superstars of dance, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon, remembered by their daughter Nicole

• 41 mins

When trash met thrash: Paraguay's landfill musicians

How a youth orchestra of tin-can violins and X-ray drums got the attention of Megadeth

• 26 mins

The supermodel who escaped a cult

Hoyt Richards was a jet-setting supermodel, but he became enthralled by a doomsday cult

• 40 mins

Conjoined twins can now look into each other’s eyes

It took almost two years to separate two sisters conjoined at the back of their heads.

• 17 mins

The barber saving lives one haircut at a time

British hairdresser Tom Chapman gets men to share their problems in his barber's chair.

• 22 mins

The narcotics cop and a daughter hooked on heroin

Kevin Simmers' heart-breaking dilemma when he discovered his daughter was a heroin addict

• 22 mins

The boy, the wish and the nuclear weapons

Why a terminally-ill teenager went to the Soviet Union to broker a nuclear peace deal

• 26 mins

The first date that led to a dramatic mountain rescue

Rachel Colenso and her partner were stranded on a Swiss mountain in a fierce blizzard

• 30 mins

The detective and the diamond heist

Belgian detective Patrick Peys had to solve the biggest diamond robbery in history

• 39 mins

The war story that led to our love story

Eva and Sami’s love for each other grew as he shared his experiences of the war in Syria

• 22 mins

My life in the eye of the storm

Russel Honoré was the black army General who led the Hurricane Katrina relief effort

• 22 mins

A Nightmare in Joshua Tree

Claire NelsonÌýwas hiking in the US wilderness when she slipped and fell into a canyon

• 25 mins

The life and crimes of a bearded lady: part one

Selling crack and writing poetry – BL Shirelle’s turbulent childhood in Philadelphia

• 22 mins

The life and crimes of a bearded lady: part two

From prisoner to recording artist – how BL Shirelle found love, happiness and success

• 23 mins

The man giving former extremists a second chance

Why do people become radicalised? Noor Huda Ismail was on a mission to find out

• 22 mins

Surfing and sisterhood - making waves in Jamaica

How one of Jamaica’s top surfers Imani Wilmot empowers women to ride the tide

• 19 mins

The Great Escape of Bonga

Bonga Kuenda, the man who sang – and sprinted – for Angolan independence

• 25 mins

The woman who woke up in the future

Naomi Jacobs went to bed aged 32 but woke up thinking she was 15, her adult memories gone

• 43 mins

The rebel past of a Tibetan Lama

Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche reflects on a life of conflict, hedonism and disco dancing.

• 22 mins

The chess game that changed a homeless boy’s life

Tani Adewumi fled Nigeria and became a chess champion in New York at just eight years old

• 20 mins