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As Hillary Clinton launches her 2016 bid for the presidency, she tells the story of her first political transformation from a young suburban Republican to the iconoclastic First Lady of Arkansas.

Between 1980 and 1985, four people were murdered after five bombings targeting judges of the Family Court of Australia. A major Seven investigation would blow the case wide open to find the killer, Leonard Warwick.

A look at the first months of the Donald Trump presidency and how it was uniquely embedded in the Department of Homeland Security Border Force on the US border with Mexico, as the president attempts to build his controversial wall. From local people and humanitarian groups, to the vigilantes who spend their days hunting illegal immigrants, this visceral documentary shows all sides of the story. This is an honest and balanced look at America through one of the US president's most controversial campaign pledges.

It was the crime that changed Australia. On February 2, 1986, 26-year-old nurse Anita Cobby was grabbed off the street, driven to an isolated paddock and brutally murdered. The trial of her five killers, including three brothers, captivated the world, as all were sentenced to life imprisonment and their files marked 'never to be released'. The real story has never been told, until now. In a powerful special investigation, award-winning journalist Steve Pennells reveals astonishing new facts about the case, the first TV interview of Anita's long-forgotten husband John Cobby, and we hear the explosive confessions of the killers.

Vladimir Putin arrives in the Kremlin as a vulnerable and unknown president, whom the Russian oligarchs hope to control. He asserts his hold on power and ultimately surrounds himself with his KGB peers.

An Italian family face being torn apart, an Irish couple fight for their son, and a man in detention makes his last desperate bid to prevent his deportation to a country he barely knows.

This film tracks how Putin escapes poverty by joining the KGB, his reinvention as a political fixer in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and how he gets into position to take over from President Yeltsin.

On July 14, 2001, British backpackers Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees are attacked as they drive through the night on a remote highway in the Australian outback. Bradley Murdoch was found guilty of killing Peter Falconio, but debate remains about whether he was correctly identified. Did the police get the right man?

For the first time, cameras record a hearing inside Australia's Appeals Tribunal as a Peruvian man fights for his life. Meanwhile, a wealthy English family faces deportation, and a man claims to be the sole survivor of a family fleeing Myanmar.

This program goes to Southside Chicago to see why civilian deaths are happening, and highlight the ways the community is working to bring peace and end the cycle of revenge and retaliation.

On July 14, 2001, British backpackers Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees are attacked as they drive through the night on a remote highway in the Australian outback. Bradley Murdoch was found guilty of killing Peter Falconio, but debate remains about whether he was correctly identified. Did the police get the right man?

This is the untold story of Britain's worst foetal poisoning scandal since Thalidomide, when a group of ordinary mothers took on the establishment and won. Set in a post-industrial Northamptonshire town, the Corby Litigation Case was a landmark case with worldwide legal and medical ramifications - the first time ever that a court has recognised a link between airborne toxins and foetal development damage. At the heart of the story is a group of young mothers with children with hand and feet deformities fighting hard for answers, a ruthless local council, and tenacious human rights lawyer who took on a near-impossible 10-year battle. It is an astonishing fight for justice story often referred to as the 'British Erin Brockovich' case.

The 18th Amendment is unique: it was the first amendment to restrict the rights of citizens rather than expand them, and the only amendment ever to be repealed. It marks the beginning of the Prohibition era, an enormous national experiment of morality. As the centenary of its passage approaches, we look back on this iconic period in American history, peeling away the romantic myths and exploring the complex historical realities. A period of extraordinary tension in American history, and already the subject of countless explorations, both fictional and non-fictional, this two-hour special gives audiences a new, dynamic and entertaining perspective on the era.

This episode follows the campaign to save a Bhutanese family from deportation and a couple's Sophie's Choice about who gets the children if the mother is deported; a refugee suddenly finds out his identity is in question; an American businessman is frustrated by the system.

Impeachment votes, Supreme Court rulings, and further revelations seal Richard Nixon's fate.

The 18th Amendment is unique: it was the first amendment to restrict the rights of citizens rather than expand them, and the only amendment ever to be repealed. It marks the beginning of the Prohibition era, an enormous national experiment of morality. As the centenary of its passage approaches, we look back on this iconic period in American history, peeling away the romantic myths and exploring the complex historical realities. A period of extraordinary tension in American history, and already the subject of countless explorations, both fictional and non-fictional, this two-hour special gives audiences a new, dynamic and entertaining perspective on the era.

Three women fight to keep their marriage together after their husbands fall foul of the law; one woman places her own life in jeopardy.

Hear the harrowing first-hand story of how a crew of oil rig workers escaped a massive fire that killed 11 of their co-workers in the Gulf of Mexico.