Historian Olivette Otele explores the untold story of a black regiment in World War One.
The untold story of WWI’s forgotten black regiments
Hitler at the Olympics in 1936
On this day in 1936 Jesse Owens won the 100m at the Berlin Olympics. Adolph Hitler opens the Games. Jesse Owens wins the 100 metres. Shot of the crowd at the stadium […]
Women against Hitler and the nazis
Women in Nazi Germany were expected to be housewives and mothers. Women, like Sophie Scholl, who resisted the system and these roles paid with their lives. When the National Socialists led by […]
The Real Story Of The Civil Rights Movement
The stories about Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Muhammad Ali are well known. But how accurate are they? Often the retelling of the civil rights movement is neutered by misrepresentations […]
Josef Mengele – the hunt for a Nazi criminal
Few Nazis were as notorious and gruesome as doctor Josef Mengele. But who was Mengele and how did he manage to disappear after WWII until his death in 1979? After the end […]
A guitarist takes on the state – Wolf Biermann and the GDR
Musician Wolf Biermann played his guitar and sang about the inadequacies of the GDR. In 1976, he was expelled from Communist East Germany. He had long viewed the “Workers’ and Peasants’ State” […]
A secret Cold War deal between Romania and Germany
The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu allowed people of German descent to leave for Germany during the Cold War – in return for money. This secret trade cost the German government billions and […]
Sacramento marks 50 years since Black Panther Party stormed State Capitol
Founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento chapter Tanya Faison was among those who attended the rally. Fifty years after the Black Panther Party “came into the Capitol and they came in with […]
EXCLUSIVE: Life with my brother, Che Guevara
Fifty years on from the death of Che Guevara, what is his legacy – if any? In this exclusive report from Buenos Aires, Stephen Smith meets his younger brother Juan Martin Guevara […]
Potsdam in 1945
Impressions filmed on the road from Berlin to Potsdam, just after the end of World War Two from Potsdam, close to Berlin (south-west). These images must have been shot in or after […]
