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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

• 51 mins

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.

• 53 mins

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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Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

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

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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

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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.

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The Iranian Revolution

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

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The last days of Hitler

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

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Iceland jails its bankers

Why Iceland jailed 40 bankers after the 2008 financial crisis plus the birth of the EU.

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The curse of Agent Orange

Vietnam's toxic legacy, smoking warnings ignored and Nazi remains discovered in Brazil.

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Venezuela's oil bonanza

When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis

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I was abused by a President

How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins

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China's breakthrough malaria cure

How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria

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Autism and the MMR vaccine

How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism.

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Drama in the British parliament

A political crisis in Britain, ballooning around the world and mindfulness.

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Abolishing the army

How Costa Rica scrapped its armed forces, plus Maya Angelou and Sweden's famous warship.

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The rise of Hindu nationalism

A religious rally called the Rath Yatra in 1990 championed militant Hinduism in India.

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