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Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
9 mins; December 21, 2023
The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
9 mins; December 20, 2023
The assassination of King Faisal
8 mins; December 19, 2023
Tsunami devastates Samoa
9 mins; December 18, 2023
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
15 mins; December 15, 2023
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
9 mins; December 14, 2023
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
9 mins; December 13, 2023
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
9 mins; December 12, 2023
Murder of the Romanovs
8 mins; December 11, 2023
The release of DOOM
9 mins; December 08, 2023
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
8 mins; December 07, 2023
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
8 mins; December 06, 2023
Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets
9 mins; December 05, 2023
La Haine: The film that shocked France
9 mins; December 04, 2023
World's first solar-heated home
10 mins; December 01, 2023
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
10 mins; November 30, 2023
Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths
8 mins; November 29, 2023
The bird that defied extinction
9 mins; November 28, 2023
Cabbage Patch Kids
9 mins; November 27, 2023
The Mumbai attacks
8 mins; November 24, 2023
The Paris heatwave
9 mins; November 23, 2023
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
9 mins; November 22, 2023
The invention of bubble tea
10 mins; November 21, 2023
The independence of Zambia
10 mins; November 20, 2023
Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
10 mins; November 17, 2023
The Bolivian Water War
9 mins; November 16, 2023
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
9 mins; November 15, 2023
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
9 mins; November 14, 2023
The invention of the EpiPen
10 mins; November 13, 2023
The hippo and the tortoise
9 mins; November 10, 2023
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
9 mins; November 09, 2023
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
10 mins; November 08, 2023
Debbie McGee in Iran
10 mins; November 07, 2023
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
9 mins; November 06, 2023
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
11 mins; November 03, 2023
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
9 mins; November 02, 2023
Inventing the black box
10 mins; November 01, 2023
The discovery of the HIV virus
10 mins; October 31, 2023
The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
10 mins; October 30, 2023
Turkey: Gezi Park protests
9 mins; October 27, 2023
'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
9 mins; October 26, 2023
The 1993 MAD hijack
9 mins; October 25, 2023
The 1980 Turkey coup
9 mins; October 24, 2023
The first Bosphorus Bridge
9 mins; October 23, 2023
Osmondmania
9 mins; October 20, 2023
Launching Lagos Fashion Week
10 mins; October 19, 2023
Mexico’s murdered women
8 mins; October 18, 2023
Rana Plaza building collapse
9 mins; October 17, 2023
Cambodian peace walk
10 mins; October 16, 2023
Surviving an acid attack and changing the law
10 mins; October 13, 2023
Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power
10 mins; October 12, 2023
Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag
10 mins; October 11, 2023
The 84-year-old primary school pupil
10 mins; October 10, 2023
Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
9 mins; October 09, 2023
Protectors of the Amazon
9 mins; October 06, 2023
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill
9 mins; October 05, 2023
Nigeria strikes oil
8 mins; October 04, 2023
The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan
9 mins; October 03, 2023
The oil crisis of 1973
8 mins; October 02, 2023
The first cat cafe
10 mins; September 29, 2023
The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy
9 mins; September 28, 2023
Kassandra: The peacekeeping telenovela in Bosnia
10 mins; September 27, 2023
Concorde's first flight
8 mins; September 26, 2023
Vietnam War: Stopping nuclear disaster
12 mins; September 25, 2023
The year of the vuvuzela
10 mins; September 22, 2023
Kenya: Nairobi shopping mall attack
8 mins; September 21, 2023
The first person inside the 'Gates of Hell'
9 mins; September 20, 2023
Fighting for legal abortion in Italy
9 mins; September 19, 2023
Nazi eugenics
10 mins; September 18, 2023
The Ramallah concert
10 mins; September 15, 2023
The siege at the Church of the Nativity
9 mins; September 14, 2023
Ariel Sharon visits al-Aqsa
10 mins; September 13, 2023
Camp David Summit: How Middle East peace talks failed
9 mins; September 12, 2023
Oslo Peace Accords: The secret talks behind Middle East deal
9 mins; September 11, 2023
Victor Jara: killed in Chile's coup
9 mins; September 08, 2023
Organising Chile's 1973 military coup
10 mins; September 07, 2023
Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh
9 mins; September 06, 2023
Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'
10 mins; September 05, 2023
Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners
9 mins; September 04, 2023
Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution
10 mins; September 01, 2023
Saving Guadalupe from goats
10 mins; August 31, 2023
Egypt's Rabaa massacre
10 mins; August 30, 2023
North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades
10 mins; August 29, 2023
The Bristol bus boycott
9 mins; August 28, 2023
Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot
10 mins; August 25, 2023
Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'
10 mins; August 24, 2023
The first Rose of Tralee
9 mins; August 23, 2023
How electricity came to rural Ireland
10 mins; August 22, 2023
Easter Rising in Ireland
10 mins; August 21, 2023
The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers
11 mins; August 18, 2023
Judy Garland: The final shows
9 mins; August 17, 2023
Returning Benin Bronzes
10 mins; August 16, 2023
Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953
9 mins; August 15, 2023
The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor
10 mins; August 14, 2023
Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
10 mins; August 11, 2023
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
10 mins; August 10, 2023
Sarajevo’s haven of peace
9 mins; August 09, 2023
The Great Train Robbery
10 mins; August 08, 2023
Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
9 mins; August 07, 2023
Dinosaur in court
10 mins; August 04, 2023
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