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Painting for our lives

Three fascinating portraits of people who used a paintbrush to transform their lives

• 44 mins

The Biospherians: Why we were sealed in a giant dome

Biosphere 2 was one of the most controversial human experiments of the 20th Century

• 44 mins

'She came back to the clinic dancing'

The Sierra Leonean doctor whose life-changing work earned her screen time with the Queen

• 40 mins

Revelations from El Salvador that healed my family

Roberto Lovato didn't understand his father until he discovered the history of his home

• 44 mins

The twists and turns of the Rubik's Cube

Meet champion cuber Feliks Zemdegs, and the inventor behind the puzzle Erno Rubik

• 26 mins

CJ Daugherty鈥檚 world of literary escapism

Books were the best-selling author鈥檚 鈥渕agic carpet ride out鈥� of an abusive childhood home

• 44 mins

The wild ride of a Tamil comic book pioneer

The Indian comic book enthusiast bringing his favourite characters to a Tamil audience

• 44 mins

James Rhodes: My love letter to music

The British pianist is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Music became his lifeline

• 40 mins

Unmasking a horror film icon

Kane Hodder is best known as on-screen killer Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th films

• 44 mins

In bed with an assassin

Photographer Jason P. Howe had a relationship with a Colombian woman with a dark secret

• 26 mins

A scandal at the Oscars: Marlon Brando and me

Sacheen Littlefeather stood in front of 85 million people to reject Marlon Brando's Oscar

• 44 mins

The accidental sleuth who solved a murder

Therese Tang has done lots of jobs - hunting for a killer wasn't meant to be one of them

• 44 mins

Skin: the scream that made me a rock star

How Skin, lead singer of the ground-breaking British band, Skunk Anansie, found her voice

• 40 mins

Fire, ice and thunder: A chase on the high seas

Taking down the Thunder, the world's most notorious poaching ship

• 44 mins

The IS orphans rescued by their grandpa

He couldn鈥檛 save his daughter after she joined IS but could he rescue her seven children?

• 26 mins

Separated from my kids at the US-Mexico border

Guatemalan Rosayra Pablo Cruz was helped by a surprise visitor while she was in detention

• 44 mins

A spy in the family

I was betrayed to the East German secret police

• 44 mins

The firefighting vets of Brazil

Carla Sassi and her team have been rescuing animals as wildfires burn around them

• 40 mins

Zero-gravity highs and history-making lows

Kathy Sullivan is a former US astronaut who has made history both at sea and in space

• 44 mins

The photo that exposed apartheid

The Soweto Uprisings and the story behind South Africa's most iconic photo.

• 26 mins

Fighting plastic pollution in paradise

How Kristal Ambrose rallied a group of kids to get a plastic ban in the Bahamas

• 44 mins

Speaking through music: Me and my non-verbal sister

Ian Brennan鈥檚 sister, who has Down's syndrome, taught him to communicate through music

• 44 mins

I learned my mum's identity via SMS

It would take My Huong decades to uncover the truth about her birth family in Vietnam

• 40 mins

My Falklands War: The woman with the white gloves

How a farmer ignored military threats and rallied her community to save injured soldiers

• 44 mins

Rufus Wainwright: My music and my mother

Born into folk music royalty, Rufus took special inspiration from his mum Kate McGarrigle

• 26 mins

The sailor and the pirate king

Indian sailor Sudeep Choudhury was kidnapped at gunpoint by pirates in the Niger Delta

• 44 mins

The man behind Mindhunter: Face to face with serial killers

John E. Douglas spent his FBI career speaking to some of America's most violent criminals

• 44 mins

The secretaries who inspired the hit movie 9 to 5

Karen Nussbaum is the co-founder of 9to5, a movement that gave rise to a box office smash

• 40 mins

Becoming 'brothers' with my guard in Guantanamo Bay

How a Mauritanian inmate and an American guard were brought together by a movie

• 44 mins

We found our baby on the subway

The couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a New York station

• 26 mins