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The Nuremberg Trials

The story of the only surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials

• 9 mins

The Making of Kind of Blue

Drummer Jimmy Cobb recalls playing with Miles Davis on the album that changed jazz forever

• 15 mins

The Hong Kong Riots of 1967

Striking workers and students filled the streets calling for an end to British rule.

• 15 mins

The Life and Death of Agatha Christie

The best-selling novelist in history, crime-writer Agatha Christie, died in January 1976

• 9 mins

Zeppelins Attack England

In January 1915 huge German Zeppelin airships began the first bombing raids on England

• 9 mins

The rise of England's football hooligans

The rise of violence between English football fans in the 1970s

• 9 mins

A Cure for Tuberculosis

Professor Denny Mitchison was a pioneer in the search for a cure for tuberculosis.

• 9 mins

The Sophiatown Removals

How apartheid destroyed one of the last multiracial communities in 1950s South Africa.

• 15 mins

Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis

The romance between the widowed US First Lady and the Greek shipping tycoon in the 1960s.

• 14 mins

Bloods and Crips truce

In April 1992, the main black street gangs in Los Angeles started a historic truce.

• 9 mins

Bloods and Crips

The truce in 1992 between the two main black street gangs in Los Angeles.

• 14 mins

The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

On 24 April 1980, the US launched a disastrous attempt to free its hostages in Iran

• 9 mins

The Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout

A 1932 protest which helped win the right to roam freely across the English countryside

• 9 mins

The Fall of Saigon

In 1975 US troops airlifted hundreds of people out of Saigon as the Vietnam War ended.

• 14 mins

The Sinking of the Lusitania

1,200 died when a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner off Ireland in 1915

• 9 mins

Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

Rob Walker reports on an attempt to free hostages from the US embassy in Iran in 1980.

• 15 mins

The Murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero

Two witnesses give their account of the shooting of the archbishop of El Salvador.

• 15 mins

Italy in World War One

One soldier's diary account of the brutal Italian campaign fought in the Alps

• 9 mins

Australia's Rabbit Plague

How Australia battled a plague of rabbits which was destroying its agricultural economy.

• 15 mins

Protect and Survive

In May 1980 the British government published a booklet about how to survive nuclear war

• 8 mins

The Welsh in Patagonia

In May 1865 a group of Welsh settlers left Liverpool for Patagonia

• 9 mins

The Heysel Stadium Disaster

Thirty-nine people died during the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus.

• 9 mins

The Burning of the Jaffna Public Library

On June 1st 1981, the public library in the Sri Lankan city of Jaffna was set on fire.

• 8 mins

The Golden Gate Bridge

In early June 1937 San Francisco was celebrating the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge

• 8 mins

The Death of Ayatollah Khomeini

Chaos at the funeral of Iran's leader as millions gathered to mourn his death.

• 8 mins

The Eichmann Tapes

The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann gave hours of interview before his capture and trial

• 9 mins

Eichmann in Argentina

In 1960, leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann was abducted in Argentina and smuggled to Israel.

• 14 mins

Britain's first referendum on Europe

In June 1975, Britain held a referendum on its membership of the Common Market

• 9 mins

Women's Institute at 100

The British women's organisation set up to revitalise rural communities during WW1

• 9 mins

Refugee Boat Tragedy

In June 1988 the US Navy came across a boat of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea

• 9 mins