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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

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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

Eichmann in Argentina

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

• 14 mins

Iran's Cultural Revolution

How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups

• 9 mins

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

In July 1945, the American warship was torpedoed in the shark-infested Pacific Ocean.

• 9 mins

James Salter: Writer and Pilot

The acclaimed American author recalls his time as a US fighter pilot during the Korean War

• 15 mins

Poison Gas in WW1

Soldiers who witnessed gas attacks recount their experiences in archive recordings

• 9 mins

Ghiggia: Uruguay鈥檚 World Cup Hero

Alcides Ghiggia scored a famous goal for Uruguay in a match at Brazil鈥檚 Maracana stadium

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The Death of Walter Rodney

In 1980, the Guyanese opposition leader Dr Walter Rodney was killed in a bomb explosion.

• 15 mins

The Inuit Children Experiment

Helen Thiesen recalls being taken from her family in Greenland and sent to live in Denmark

• 15 mins

The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

A look at the destruction of southern Iraq's great marshes, overseen by Saddam Hussein.

• 15 mins

The Guinness Book of Records

The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.

• 9 mins

Hurricane Katrina

In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.

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