The doctor who discovered how cholera spread

How Dr John Snow found out the cholera bug was spread through contaminated water in 1854.

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The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998

• 9 mins

Montreal's 'Night of Terror'

When the city's police force went on strike there was looting and rioting in the streets.

• 9 mins

The death of Frida Kahlo

In July 1954 the great Mexican artist died after years of illness. She was just 47.

• 9 mins

The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist

A US government report into the riots of 1967 blamed white racism for creating ghettos

• 9 mins

The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel

A Jewish feminist group's campaign to pray freely at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

• 9 mins

How Club Med changed holidays

Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort in Majorca in summer 1950

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Returning Ethiopia's looted history

The Stele of Axum, a 4th century Ethiopian treasure, was returned by Italy in 2005

• 9 mins

The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors

How the British city forced out Chinese seamen who'd served during World War Two.

• 9 mins

South Korea's 1980s prison camps

A so-called Social Purification project led to thousands of citizens being imprisoned

• 9 mins

The man who tried to kill Hitler

On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk

• 9 mins

The Million Man March

On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington DC

• 9 mins

The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests

When logging threatened the rainforests of Sarawak, local communities fought back

• 9 mins

The first safe house for Afghan women

Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan

• 9 mins

The fastest vaccine ever developed

How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine

• 9 mins

The writer who put Latinos centre stage

Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida

• 9 mins

Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires

How 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across Victoria, Australia in 2009.

• 9 mins

Adrift for 76 days

A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean

• 14 mins

Benidorm and the birth of package tourism

The story of the mayor who created one of the world's biggest holiday resorts.

• 9 mins

The death of Heinrich Himmler

The leading Nazi was caught by British troops shortly after WW2 had ended in Europe

• 9 mins

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

A first-hand account of the surprise strike on a US naval base in December 1941.

• 9 mins

The internment of Japanese Americans

During World War Two thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps

• 9 mins

The battle of Midway

How a huge naval battle between aircraft carriers changed the war in the Pacific

• 9 mins

The atomic bombs dropped on Japan

Atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945

• 9 mins

The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution

How Beate Sirota Gordon got wording on gender equality into Japan's post-war constitution

• 9 mins

Radar and World War Two

How British women operated secret radar technology during World War Two

• 9 mins

Bremen’s Elephant Statue

How the German city addressed its colonial past by rededicating a famous monument

• 9 mins

Beirut's Hotel War

How the Lebanese Civil War came to Beirut's luxury hotel district in 1975.

• 9 mins

Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey

How Turkish campaigners forced a radical change in the law on crimes against women

• 9 mins

The invention of the modern ventilator

How a polio epidemic in Denmark in 1952 led to the invention of the modern ventilator

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