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Reporting the Nuremberg Trials

Stefan Heyn on the defendents responsible for the horrific events of the Holocaust

• 4 mins

An Enemy of the State in Maoist China

Nien Cheng was imprisoned in solitary confinement for six and a half years

• 4 mins

Wartime Love and Persecution

Gad Beck on life in Nazi Germany as a gay man and how he lost his true love

• 4 mins

Surviving a Soviet Labour Camp

At 28, the Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya was imprisoned for her writing

• 3 mins

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

"Apartheid was all pervasive" – Dr Fazel Randera on South Africa's human rights abuses

• 4 mins

Enniskillen Bombing

Noreen Hill on how her husband was severely injured at the Remembrance Day bombing

• 4 mins

The Contraceptive Pill

Maureen describes her life before the pill and how it changed when she started to take it

• 4 mins

Geisha Girl

Kiharu Nakamura talks about becoming a high class entertainer in Japan

• 4 mins

Living with HIV/Aids

"When I discovered I was HIV positive, I knew life had to go on"

• 4 mins

Deep Diver

Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard travelled 11,000 metres to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

• 4 mins

Walking to the North Pole

Sue and Victoria Riches were the first British women to walk to the North Pole

• 4 mins

Popularising Bungee Jumping

Bungee pioneer AJ Hackett on how he made the extreme sport popular around the world.

• 4 mins

Paralympic Gold Medallist

"Disability really hasn't prevented me from doing anything at all."

• 4 mins

Pushing The Limits - Women Pilots

The American pilot Fay Gillis Wells remembers her friend and fellow aviator Amelia Earhart

• 4 mins

Sex Montage

How sexual attitudes changed over the 20th Century for the good - and not so good

• 28 mins

The Four Minute Mile

Roger Bannister remembers the May evening in 1954 when he ran a mile in four minutes

• 4 mins

First Olympic Gold Medal for Morocco

Nawal el Moutawakel remembers the race that won her Olympic gold in 1984 for 400m hurdles

• 4 mins

Pushing The Limits

Accounts of people whose exploits and explorations pushed them to the limits of endurance

• 28 mins

Breaking Test Cricket Records

Cricketer Brian Lara on making 375 runs for the West Indies against England

• 4 mins

Four Gold Medals at the Berlin Olympics

Jesse Owens won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay and the long jump at the 1936 Olympics

• 4 mins

Airport Building in China

Hong Kong's old airport Kai Tak, nostalgically remembered by pilot Jim Eckers

• 4 mins

Seagram Building

The iconic Manhattan skyscraper was designed by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

• 4 mins

Shopping Malls

Bafana Khumalo takes us on a tour of Sandtown City, the largest shopping mall in Africa

• 4 mins

Traditional Egyptian Houses for the Future

Architect Adel Fahmy onn using natural building materials to construct domes and vaults

• 4 mins

Building Tower Blocks

Ivor Smith was one of the architects behind the Park Hill estate in Sheffield

• 4 mins

Palestinian Exodus

Audeh Rantisi on being exiled to the West Bank in July 1948

• 4 mins

Shah of Iran is Exiled

Farah Pahlavi, the Shah's wife on living elsewhere, from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas

• 4 mins

Building the 20th Century

Architecture and its development - how building design changed over the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Retaining Dignity Under Apartheid

"Our freedom is such a precious thing for us in South Africa"

• 4 mins

Improving Prisons in India

Kiran Bedi converted Tihar jail into a place of reformation - an ashram

• 4 mins