The story of our times told by the people who were there.
At the end of WW2, many ethnic Germans in Central Europe were forced to leave their homes.
It is 16 years since the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital.
The battle in Mogadishu in 1993 which had a dramatic impact on US foreign policy.
In October 1986 a CIA plane carrying arms to "contra" rebels was shot down in Nicaragua
In 1985 a luxury cruise liner was held by Palestinian gunmen in the Red Sea.
In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.
How the Soviet dissident smuggled his writing to the outside world.
It is 25 years since the most in-depth and expensive survey of Loch Ness.
It is 35 years since the opening of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
CIA expert Dino Brugioni interpreted the ariel photographs of missiles in Cuba
British troops liberated Greece from the Nazis in October 1944.
The last serious attempt to end Colombia's long civil war was more than a decade ago.
It's 15 years since an extraordinary building was opened in a Spanish industrial city.
The gradual build up of weaponry - Soviet built ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads
On 24 October 1929, the New York Stock Exchange began to plummet.
It is 10 years since Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage.
In the autumn of 1980 one of the longest wars of the 20th Century began.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba
Allen Ginsberg first read his poem Howl, in San Francisco in October 1955.
It is 95 years since the October Revolution which led to the creation of the Soviet Union.
In 1985 a Frankfurt theatre attempted to stage a play by the controversial German writer.
The great British war photographer Don McCullin remembers the Vietnam war.
In the 1930s the Nazi party hatched a secret plan to breed an elite Aryan race.
An incredible plot to kidnap, drug and repatriate Nigerian exile Umaru Dikko in 80s London
