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The Soviet Gulag

Hear one man's story of life in a Soviet labour camp during Stalin's rule.

• 14 mins

Women's Baseball in WWII

In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US

• 9 mins

The Hong Kong Handover

Former Governor General, Chris Patten, remembers the day the territory returned to China.

• 9 mins

Freeze

In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.

• 9 mins

The Birth of Second Life

It is ten years since the launch of Philip Rosedale's online virtual world Second Life

• 9 mins

Escape from the KGB

How Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985

• 9 mins

Haile Selassie visits Jamaica

In 1966, the Emperor of Ethiopia made a state visit to the Caribbean island of Jamaica.

• 15 mins

The Lillehammer Hit

In July 1973 a Moroccan waiter was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway

• 9 mins

Black July

In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka

• 9 mins

Alcoholics Anonymous

In the summer of 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio

• 9 mins

Abducted by Joseph Kony

The woman forced to bear the children of the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army

• 9 mins

The End of the Korean War

On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released

• 9 mins

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

July 1945 - a US warship sinks in the Pacific; its crew face days in shark-infested waters

• 15 mins

IRA Decommissioning

In July 2005 the IRA in Northern Ireland promised to put its weapons out of use.

• 9 mins

The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters

• 9 mins

The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa

The controversial American union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, was last seen alive on July 30 1975

• 9 mins

Ramayan - India's TV Epic

It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes

• 9 mins

Gorkhaland

The sisters whose lives were devastated during the campaign for Gorkhaland in India

• 9 mins

Vietnam - US Prisoner of War

In August 1964, Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces.

• 15 mins

Malaysian Hostage Crisis

In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

• 9 mins

Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl

It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

• 9 mins

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

• 9 mins

Burma's 1988 Protests

In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

• 9 mins

Bombing of Nagasaki

Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

• 9 mins

The Opening of Euro Disney

Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.

• 15 mins

Conflict in Congo

The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

• 9 mins

Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

• 9 mins

The Battle of the Potato Beetle

In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

• 9 mins

The Omagh Bombing

In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

• 9 mins

Stanley Kubrick

Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

• 9 mins