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The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

Egypt's Arab Spring, abortions in 1960s America, the champion of the Parthenon Marbles

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A Jamaican drug lord, New York’s drag scene and cold war chess in the Soviet Union.

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South Africa fights for cheaper drugs, slavery in Mauritania and a sex therapy legend.

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Black Jesus

The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; orchid-hunters kidnapped

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The women who reclaimed the night

Women's night-time protest, a Mexican female serial killer and the jet stream.

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The first woman in the US Supreme Court

Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to America's top court, plus the Bay of Pigs invasion

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How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant

A history of the gun lobby in the US, the Eichmann trial in 1961, the first space shuttle

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The killing of Osama Bin Laden

The life and death of the al-Qaeda leader, the man behind the 9/11 attacks

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The IRA hunger strikes

Hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, wine fraud, and feminist science fiction

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Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

A history of psychedelic experiments, contraception in Ireland, an Iraqi escape story

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When Egypt said Enough

The forerunner of the Arab Spring; fighting repression in South Korea; saving wetlands

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Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend

Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.

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The war on drugs

US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971

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When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections

• 49 mins

The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race

One African-American woman’s act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.

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LGBT special

The Stonewall Riot, China's "Cooperative Marriages" and LGBT activism in Ivory Coast

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Supernatural sightings

UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.

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North Korea's 1990s famine

How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea

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When the Taliban ruled Kabul

Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine

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Darfur's ethnic war

Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.

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Japan history special

The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the first bullet train, plus other historical moments

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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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