成人快手

Banning The Belt

How two Scottish mothers forced the UK government to end corporal punishment in schools

• 9 mins

China's Crackdown on Falun Gong

The Chinese government banned the spiritual movement, Falun Gong, in 1999.

• 12 mins

Bringing Nazi Leader Klaus Barbie To Justice

The extradition to France of the man known as 'the butcher of Lyon'

• 9 mins

The Birth of the Water Baby

French obstetrician Dr Michel Odent encouraged women to use water to ease childbirth.

• 12 mins

Women in Britain get the right to vote

On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time

• 9 mins

The Hanafi Hostage Siege

How American Muslim gunmen took more than 100 people hostage in the US capital in 1977.

• 12 mins

The Munich Air Disaster

The 1958 plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's famous "Busby Babes" team.

• 9 mins

The Killing of Vincent Chin

The brutal murder of a young Chinese-American man sparked a civil rights movement.

• 12 mins

Spying On South Africa's Nuclear Bomb

Renfrew Christie was jailed and tortured for passing details of the bomb to the ANC

• 9 mins

Camouflaging Leningrad in World War Two

Russian mountaineers disguised monuments in the city to protect them from enemy fire.

• 12 mins

The Bombing Of Korean Flight 858

In 1987, 115 people died in an attack ordered by North Korea to disrupt the Olympic Games

• 9 mins

Sartre and de Beauvoir

The love affair between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir lasted for 50 years.

• 12 mins

Hull's 'Headscarf Revolutionaries'

The British fishermen's wives who fought for better safety standards in their industry

• 9 mins

Women's Rights In Iran

Iran's first ever Minister for Women's Affairs was appointed in 1975.

• 9 mins

Leonardo's Lost Notebooks

In 1967 two long-lost notebooks of the artist Leonardo da Vinci were discovered in Spain

• 9 mins

The Furies Collective: Lesbian Separatists

A group of US feminists set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.

• 9 mins

Vietnam War: The Battle for Hue

Communist forces overran the key city in 1968 triggering one of the war's biggest battles

• 9 mins

Ghana Must Go

Over a million African migrants, most of them Ghanaian, had to leave Nigeria in 1983

• 9 mins

Jimmy Swaggart's Fall From Grace

How one of America's most successful televangelists was caught with a prostitute

• 9 mins

The Boy in the Bubble

David Vetter was born with a disease which meant he lived inside a plastic bubble

• 9 mins

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

One of the biggest novels of the late twentieth century was published in February 1996.

• 9 mins

The Last Smallpox Outbreak

In India in 1974 thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic

• 9 mins

The Angel of the North

The huge steel sculpture that has become an icon for the north-east of England.

• 9 mins

The Killing of Olof Palme

The Swedish Prime Minister was shot dead on a Stockholm street on February 28th 1986.

• 9 mins

M*A*S*H

The last episode of the iconic TV series broadcasts to record audiences across the US.

• 9 mins

China's Barefoot Doctors

How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare.

• 9 mins

World War One: Russia at War

How Russia's disastrous war on the Eastern Front became a catalyst for revolution

• 9 mins

Wonder Woman

The first major female superhero was created by psychologist William Marston in 1941

• 9 mins

Deaf Rights Protest

Students at the world's first deaf-only University demand a deaf college President.

• 9 mins

The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt

The life and thought of the leading 20th-century political thinker, Hannah Arendt

• 9 mins