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Beirut's hotel war
Lebanon's civil war comes to Beirut's luxury hotel district, plus the first ventilators
The Second World War in Japan
It鈥檚 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, leading to the end of WW2.
Adrift for 76 Days
Surviving the Atlantic in a liferaft, Spain's 1960s tourism boom, the death of Himmler
The Million Man March
Black Americans march on Washington, and the first Afghan women's refuge.
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
The horrors of a so-called Social Purification project and the birth of Club Med
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
A government report into the riots of 1967 warned that white racism was dividing America
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium; looted Nazi art works and the Rolling Stones in the dock
Dealing with economic crisis
How countries from around the world dealt with economic turmoil in the 20th century.
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
A UN sex trafficking scandal in Bosnia, the Five Stages of Grief, and Beethoven in China.
Black American History Special
Key moments in African American history - civil rights, basketball and the 3 strikes law.