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Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women

The 1970s environmental movement, a child who fled Biafra, an American news pioneer

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The Berlin Wall

In 1961, communist East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe

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US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon

The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975

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My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America

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Surviving the fall of Saigon

A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close

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9/11 and the war on terror

A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.

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The earthquake that devastated Haiti

In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

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Kenya: Westgate mall attack

Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy

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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe

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Black history: Britain and race

London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.

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The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan

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The Greenham Common women's peace camp

The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years

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The child environmental activist of the 1990s

Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.

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When Eritrea silenced its critics

A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu

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The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian

The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools

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Sudan's October Revolution

How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime

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The assassination of the Mirabal sisters

Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.

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Four decades of HIV/Aids

A history of HIV/Aids over the past 40 years.

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Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police

Virginity tests for women joining the Indonesian police and the battle to end them

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The birth of Bangladesh

How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.

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The right to drive in Saudi Arabia

The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.

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A history of games

The inside story of Pong, Grand Theft Auto, Tetris, Lego and Monopoly

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Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule

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Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose

The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.

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The rise of Boko Haram

How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency

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Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday

UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.

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Kazakhstan's new capital

Kazakhstan’s new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event

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The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history

Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future

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LGBT history special

Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.

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The 2014 annexation of Crimea

How Russia seized Crimea in 2014; the death of Trayvon Martin; Nigeria's film industry.

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