This is the unknown story of secret negotiations between the Taliban and America to build a pipeline through Afghanistan.
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This series investigates the most notorious and infamous crimes in French history. These cases didn’t merely capture the public’s attention, but the events would go on to inspire some of the world’s most chilling films and novels.
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In 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it was the result of espionage implemented at the heart of the United States.
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What happened in Rwanda in 1994 was not simply the spontaneous eruption of inter-ethnic hatred. It was planned genocide, on an industrial scale...
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For the past 15 years, the phrase ‘War on Terror’ has been used to justify everything from mass surveillance and spying to the use of drones to kill suspected terrorists without evidence or trial. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents a documentary on the War on Terror’s impact on civil liberties.
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President F.W. de Klerk had been a virulent defender of white Africans and their privileges and his own term as president was marred by political violence. What pushed him to reverse his beliefs and jumpstart the process of making South Africa a more equal nation?
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This is the story of a spectacular case of robbery that is changing the art world. An iconic temple statue, looted during the chaos of the Cambodian civil war, turns up in Sotheby’s auction catalogue 40 years later - with a price tag of three million dollars.
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It wasn’t just Japanese Americans who were interned by America during World War II. Nearly 11,000 German-Americans, perceived as enemy ’aliens’ were also interned
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This is the unknown story of a century of Arab feminism. We see how female emancipation has been shaped by the forces of nationalism and colonialism and hear from the Muslim women who are fighting for their liberation.
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