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Eyes on the prize: Pakistan鈥檚 first trans film star

Rejected by family and society, Alina Khan carved her own path to big screen fame

• 35 mins

I didn鈥檛 know I was part of an experiment

When Greenlander Helene Thiesen was just seven, two Danish men came to take her away

• 36 mins

The Ukrainian opera singer nearly silenced by a bullet

Sergiy Ivanchuk dreamed of stardom, before he was shot in the chest by Russian soldiers

• 39 mins

My life in seven swimming pools

Amjed鈥檚 determined to teach kids in Gaza to swim no matter how many pools he has to build

• 45 mins

Bringing the Muppets to Moscow

Natasha Lance Rogoff鈥檚 daunting task of making Sesame Street in post-Soviet Russia

• 41 mins

The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid, part 1

Sue Dobson was a white South African who risked her life as an ANC secret agent

• 40 mins

The spy who wanted to bring down apartheid: Part 2

ANC spy Sue Dobson infiltrated the South African government. Then her cover was blown.

• 41 mins

'Prison Break' and my escape from Manus Island

Tricks from a hit TV show held the key to Jaivet Ealom鈥檚 audacious bid for freedom

• 49 mins

'Brother. do. you. love. me.' The SMS that changed our lives

Brothers Manni and Reuben Coe, and the text that prompted a lockdown rescue mission

• 40 mins

Tanzania鈥檚 hip-hop politician

Joseph Mbilinyi pioneered Swahili rap and then turned to politics, but ended up in jail

• 40 mins

I was there the night Emmett Till was taken

Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction

• 41 mins

Lola the bare-knuckle drag queen

Martial arts kept him out of jail, but drag artistry made him whole

• 51 mins

Sugar sandwiches and smarts: a poor kid's fairytale ending

Raised by addicts, Dr Katriona O'Sullivan defied the odds to become a university lecturer

• 39 mins

'Don't anger the monster', part 1

Rowena Chiu on surviving the Hollywood sexual predator Harvey Weinstein

• 36 mins

'Don't anger the monster', part 2

Rowena Chiu was kept silent for 20 years by former film boss Harvey Weinstein

• 33 mins

Teenage dreams on the Indian Ocean

At the age of 13 Laura Dekker fought for her right to sail solo around the world

• 40 mins

He was almost a mass shooter 鈥� an act of kindness stopped him

Aaron Stark now works to raise awareness around why mass attacks happen

• 42 mins

Love, war, and the cutting room floor

Mariam and Mohammed are Yemeni filmmakers who turned the lens on their own relationship

• 41 mins

How I survived a pirate hijack

Marine engineer Chirag Bahri was trapped for eight gruelling months on a chemical tanker

• 41 mins

Who is this kneeling man?

My search for the truth about my father and Martin Luther King鈥檚 assassination

• 54 mins

I save chimpanzees and they've saved me

Stany Nyandwi's rescued chimpanzees helped him through war and loneliness

• 39 mins

Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 1

Immigrant teen Tariq Mehmood led a movement to resist violent racism in 1970s Britain

• 41 mins

Bradford 12: The Asian youth who took on the racists, part 2

Self-defence is no offence: how anti-racist activist Tariq Mehmood made UK legal history

• 40 mins

The woman who fell from the sky, part 1

Tony Osornio would go to dangerous extremes to keep skydiving

• 40 mins

The woman who fell from the sky, part 2

How a jump changed daring parachutist Tony Osornio's life forever

• 38 mins

Indiana Jones: The kids who remade a blockbuster

In 1982, two Mississippi boys recreated a $22m film, shot-for-shot, on their pocket money

• 40 mins

Miracle on the ocean floor

Harrison Okene spent three days trapped in an air pocket in a sunken ship

• 40 mins

The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 1

A bond between brothers, a coming-out story, and an international song contest

• 44 mins

The invisible child who now shines at Eurovision, part 2

From the page to the stage: William turns childhood fantasies into reality

• 43 mins

Dancing in the womb

A mother, a son, and the discovery of a shared dream

• 44 mins