British black history special

The voyage of the Empire Windrush, the battle of Lewisham and the creation of Desmond's

• 53 mins

CNN and the 24-hour news revolution

The launch of CNN, the end of Lebanon's civil war and making a film in Saddam's Iraq.

• 53 mins

Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs

Why Portugal took a radical approach to drugs in 2001, plus theatre's Joan Littlewood

• 53 mins

US presidential history special

Inside JFK's election victory, plus Shirley Chisholm, Watergate, and the religious right

• 53 mins

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The murder of the Israeli leader; Germany's "Occupation Babies"; nude theatre in London

• 53 mins

The Guerrilla Girls

Fighting sexism and racism in the 1980s art world, plus Pluto is downgraded

• 53 mins

The world's first woman premier

Sri Lanka's woman PM plus the first Arab leader to visit Israel and the women's sex book.

• 53 mins

Disability History special

The fight for disability rights in the UK, India, plus Helen Keller and the Invacar

• 53 mins

The fall of Addis Ababa

How rebels toppled Colonel Mengistu of Ethiopia; France's headscarf ban; WW2's V1 bombs

• 53 mins

The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize

The anti-apartheid campaigner Albert Luthuli plus a Neanderthal discovery and beavers.

• 53 mins

The birth of Bangladesh

How Bangladesh’s struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.

• 53 mins

Film special

Featuring It’s A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli and Charlie Chaplin

• 53 mins

75 years of Unesco

Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.

• 53 mins

Buddhist on Death Row

How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"

• 49 mins

Attack at the US Capitol

Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan

• 53 mins

Hitler's beer hall putsch

Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries

• 53 mins

The Arab Spring of 2011

Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes

• 53 mins

The Burma protests of 1988

The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus

• 53 mins

US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter

Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless

• 53 mins

Black History: The Black Panthers

How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes

• 53 mins

The fall of Kwame Nkrumah

The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines

• 53 mins

The Iron Curtain

Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, South Africa's Sharpeville massacre and a deep dive.

• 53 mins

The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

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

• 53 mins

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

• 53 mins

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

• 53 mins

Black Jesus

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

• 53 mins

The women who reclaimed the night

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

• 53 mins

The first woman in the US Supreme Court

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

• 53 mins

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

• 53 mins

The killing of Osama Bin Laden

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

• 53 mins