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When Margaret Thatcher Came to Power

Britain's first female PM, prisoners on the high seas, and the story of Takeshi's Castle

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The Last King of Bulgaria

From child king to prime minister, the story of Bulgaria's King Simeon II.

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May 1968 Paris Riots

A riot policeman's view of the violence that swept through France in May 1968

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The Fall of Suharto in Indonesia

How riots toppled a dictator; honouring Holocaust survivors in film; 大象传媒 lesbian protest.

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Free Health Care for All

The birth of Britain's NHS; the Thalidomide trial; and discovering a baby woolly mammoth

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The 1968 Belgrade Student Revolt

The 1968 student protest in Communist Yugoslavia and the running craze 'from couch to 5k'

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Korea Divided: A Bitter History

Key witnesses to the turbulent history of North and South Korea.

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The Ex-President and the Gun Lobby

The power of the NRA; murdered Irish journalist, Veronica Guerin; Swedish submarine drama

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When The US Shot Down An Iranian Airliner

The tragic story of Flight 655, a Russian art controversy, plus Madeleine Albright

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Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test

India on the nuclear world stage, the Spiegel Affair and the refugee "Phantom Shipwreck."

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The Killing of the Russian Tsar

The murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son in 1918.

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The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History

How the true history of the Great Zimbabwe ruins was uncovered after independence.

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WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors

First World War conscientious objectors, Iran bends the nuclear rules, and dancing bears

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Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

WW2 anti-bombing protestor, 20 years since Omagh and the birth of the instant noodle.

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Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect

Interviewing a senior Nazi; the Soviet fight against alcohol; German hostage drama.

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Surviving the "Death Railway"

A former prisoner of the Japanese in WW2; Hitler's girl guides and the Lake Nyos disaster

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Living under Gaddafi

How Gaddafi changed Libya, the battle for Brick Lane in 70s London, the first MRI scanner

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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.

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The Arnhem Parachute Drop

Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers and Cuban spies

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The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

The fighting in Sao Paulo in 1968 that drove Brazil deeper into military dictatorship.

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The Nazi Black Book

The Nazi arrest list for Britain, wartime Austria, and anti-traveller riots in Sweden

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When Belgium Banned Coca Cola

A strange illness strikes Belgian teenagers, Brazil's Amazon war, and the 1973 oil crisis

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When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his arrest in Russia, Nigerian oil and Desmond Tutu.

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Life With America's Black Panthers

Remembering the radical African American movement, and the KGB's whistleblower.

• 53 mins

The End of World War One

Eyewitness accounts of the devastating war that changed the world.

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Japanese Murders in Brazil

Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.

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The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

The US welcomes Mexican migrants, the USSR welcomes foreign students plus Arafat's death

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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

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Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family

Child survivor of a Guatemalan army massacre, Bokassa's coronation, Armenia's earthquake

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Apollo 8

The astronauts who changed our view of the Earth, the rape of Nanking, WWII spy drama.

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