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Earth Day
The birth of the modern environmental movement.
The Oslo Peace Talks
Secret attempt at Mid-East peace, remembering Pablo Picasso, the death of the Red Baron.
When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power
Britain's first female PM, prisoners on the high seas, and the story of Takeshi's Castle
The Last King of Bulgaria
From child king to prime minister, the story of Bulgaria's King Simeon II.
May 1968 Paris Riots
A riot policeman's view of the violence that swept through France in May 1968
The Fall of Suharto in Indonesia
How riots toppled a dictator; honouring Holocaust survivors in film; 大象传媒 lesbian protest.
Free Health Care for All
The birth of Britain's NHS; the Thalidomide trial; and discovering a baby woolly mammoth
The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt
The 1968 student protest in Communist Yugoslavia and the running craze 'from couch to 5k'
Korea Divided: A Bitter History
Key witnesses to the turbulent history of North and South Korea.
The Ex-President and the Gun Lobby
The power of the NRA; murdered Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin; Swedish submarine drama
When The US Shot Down An Iranian Airliner
The tragic story of Flight 655, a Russian art controversy, plus Madeleine Albright
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test
India on the nuclear world stage, the Spiegel Affair and the refugee "Phantom Shipwreck."
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
The murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son in 1918.
The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History
How the true history of the Great Zimbabwe ruins was uncovered after independence.
WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors
First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, and dancing bears
Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
WW2 anti-bombing protestor, 20 years since Omagh and the birth of the instant noodle.
Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect
Interviewing a senior Nazi; the Soviet fight against alcohol; German hostage drama.
Surviving the "Death Railway"
A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2; Hitler's girl guides and the Lake Nyos disaster
Living under Gaddafi
How Gaddafi changed Libya, the battle for Brick Lane in 70s London, the first MRI scanner
How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s and the killing of Steve Biko.
The Arnhem Parachute Drop
Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers and Cuban spies
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
The fighting in Sao Paulo in 1968 that drove Brazil deeper into military dictatorship.
The Nazi Black Book
The Nazi arrest list for Britain, wartime Austria, and anti-traveller riots in Sweden
When Belgium Banned Coca Cola
A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's Amazon war, and the 1973 oil crisis
When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his arrest in Russia, Nigerian oil and Desmond Tutu.
Life With America's Black Panthers
Remembering the radical African American movement, and the KGB's whistleblower.
The End of World War One
Eyewitness accounts of the devastating war that changed the world.
Japanese Murders in Brazil
Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.
The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers
The US welcomes Mexican migrants, the USSR welcomes foreign students plus Arafat's death
The Man Who Inspired Britain's First Aids Charity
The first British man to die of AIDS, 1950s whale hunting, and the real Indiana Jones
Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family
Child survivor of a Guatemalan army massacre, Bokassa's coronation, Armenia's earthquake