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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

• 50 mins

Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test

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

• 50 mins

The Killing of the Russian Tsar

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

• 50 mins

The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History

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

• 50 mins

WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors

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

• 50 mins

Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner

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

• 50 mins

Albert Speer - Hitler's Architect

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

• 50 mins

Surviving the "Death Railway"

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

• 51 mins

Living under Gaddafi

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

• 50 mins

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

• 49 mins

When Belgium Banned Coca Cola

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

• 51 mins

When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

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

• 50 mins

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.

• 49 mins

Japanese Murders in Brazil

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

• 53 mins

The 'Braceros' - America's Mexican Guest Workers

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

• 53 mins

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

• 53 mins

Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family

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

• 53 mins

Apollo 8

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

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Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

A passenger helps overcome Richard Reid, plus US apology for Japanese American internment

• 53 mins

UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident

The most striking and well documented UFO "sightings" there have ever been.

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Vikings in North America

Exciting discovery in Canada plus a rebel attack in Central America and Brazilian booty.

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When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

Stalin's last terror campaign, Fidel Castro takes over Havana, and the world's seed vault

• 53 mins

Strikers in Saris

How South Asian women led a UK industrial dispute, plus Dr Crippen and Judy Garland.

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Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church

Sweeping changes at the Vatican, plus the ground-breaking women's publisher Virago.

• 53 mins

The Iranian Revolution

Eye-witness accounts from the revolution that changed Iran and the World in 1979

• 53 mins

The last days of Hitler

Life as Hitler's secretary; the killing of Che Guevara, and the Soweto Uprising

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