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Black Gold

The team joins forces with a rag‑tag group of park rangers who are trying to stop the destruction of Congo’s most critical national forest. Rebel crime units are cutting down the forest to manufacture charcoal and killing anyone who gets in their way. The park is the last holdout for rare mountain gorillas: and it’s […]

Gorilla War

Poachers are killing the rare Gorillas of Congo, and they are paying Rwanda’s genocidal maniacs to protect them while they practice their deadly trade. For the park rangers protecting the Gorillas, it’s all out war and they are heavily outnumbered. The team brings in special communications equipment that allows the rangers to track the Gorilla […]

Idi Amin

Ugandan president Idi Amin Dada was a violent dictator whose regime was responsible for some of the worst atrocities in his country’s history. Find out more about his brutal reign in this video.

Nelson Mandela and the End of Apartheid

After 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela was freed in 1990 and negotiated the end of apartheid in South Africa bringing peace to a racially divided country and leading the fight for human rights around the world.

This Day in History: 12/04/1991‑ Hostage Terry Anderson Freed

This Day In History: 02/11/1990 – Nelson Mandela Released

This Day in History: 11/06/1962 – U.N. Condemns Apartheid

This Day In History: 01/25/1905 – Largest Diamond Found

This Day In History: 02/16/1923 – Tomb of King Tut Opened