All Episodes
Witness History — 1989 episodes
Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Finding the world’s most complete T-rex fossil
Norway's WW2 railway sabotage plot
Nuns killed in Algeria
The origins of World Press Freedom Day
Inside the Cuban thaw
Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment
Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis
The Tabasco floods
The clean-up of Chernobyl
Canada's war in the woods
Europe’s long drought of 2011
Mymba Kuera: The race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam
Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale'
The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia
The assassination of Thomas Sankara
Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
The creation of My Little Pony
The turtle freed after 41 years in captivity
Khula Manch, the victory rally
Hitler's teeth
Marcel Duchamp and the urinal that changed art
Straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The first commercially successful electronic cigarette
Spain welcomes Picasso’s Guernica
New Nordic cuisine
The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck
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Echo and the elephants
Anthony Bourdain's Don't Eat Before Reading This
The first Great Wall of China trek
How a Maasai community in Kenya overcame a deadly drought
The only Pope to visit New Zealand
The reunification of Germany
Women's rights in independent Tunisia
The 'Cyprus Emergency'
Oslo's anti-racism demonstration
The L'Amicale Four
The nuclear mango deal
Casablanca: Making one of Hollywood’s greatest movies
How Rang De Basanti inspired a generation
I starred in Pan’s Labyrinth
My father directed Seven Samurai
Triumph of the Will: A Nazi propaganda film
The invention of the mobility scooter
India’s first nuclear test
Portugal’s worst train disaster
Elvis visits Scotland
Sweden’s diplomatic freeze with the USA
Syria's secret library
Charles Taylor and the blood diamond trial
The Japanese invasion of Malaya
The Aga Khan meets Florence Nightingale
The storming of Spain's parliament
The playboy spy who inspired James Bond
'I taught the Dalai Lama'
The photo which symbolised Argentina’s resistance
Toxic shock syndrome and tampon safety
World War Two’s Shetland Bus
The flooding of Florence
The Mont Blanc Tunnel
Gina Lollobrigida interviews Fidel Castro
When Pink Floyd played in Venice
The discovery of nerve growth factor
My dad created Mr Men and Little Miss
Austria's wine scandal
Jimmy Carter visits Cuba
Cuba's Mariel boatlift
The 'Jugroom Fort' rescue mission
Ötzi: The Iceman of Bolzano
The Kaohsiung Incident
Chile's 'Penguin Revolution'
The liberation of Auschwitz
John Logie Baird invents television
Agatha Christie: best-selling novelist of all time
The Challenger space shuttle tragedy
Operation Mincemeat
The Irish priest who built an airport
Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
Afghan Star
The deadly Vargas mudslides in Venezuela
Creating Cluedo
The creation of the modern kitchen
Brain: PC virus
Battle of Gallipoli
Sazae-san: World's longest-running cartoon
Tracey Emin’s unmade bed
Isabel Allende: The House of the Spirits
The Hillsborough disaster
South Africa's luxury train
The American Freedom Train
The longest musical composition
Radio Free Europe
SMS: The invention of text messaging
Creating the board game Catan
Tamagotchi is born
How the hoverboard was created
Inventing Play-Doh
The invention of Jenga
The first television opera
When Laurel and Hardy spent Christmas at an English pub
When Norway introduced salmon sushi to Japan
India's disability law
How NFL tickets caught fugitives
The Paris climate agreement
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
The discovery of the coelacanth
Dismaland: Banksy's dystopian theme park
The Balcombe Street IRA siege
How Lagos Fashion Week began
Wole Soyinka: Imprisoned during Nigeria’s Biafra war
Escaping Nigeria's Biafra war
Building the New Afrika Shrine in Nigeria
West Africa fights back against Boko Haram
Ravi and George
India goes to the UN
The Howard Hughes literary hoax
Colombia's Salt Cathedral
Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film
How the Bosnian war ended
The Spanish king reclaims his throne
The death of Franco
Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
Bataclan attack in Paris
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
Birth of the G7
Breaking the sound barrier
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
The ‘father of e-books’
The creation of Miffy
President Clinton is impeached
The brains behind Thunderbirds
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
Srebrenica massacre
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
Death of a priest
The man who invented the scratch card
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
My aunt created The Moomins
Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
How BRICS got its name
Japan surrenders in Beijing
The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
The home video war
The acquittal of OJ Simpson
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
The Cradock Four killings
Guinea stadium massacre
The secretary who made millions from her typos
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
The start of Scouting
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
The Aswan High Dam
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
9/11: The generosity of Gander
The story behind The Peter Principle book
The Enabling Act
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
‘How I sold my clothes and created a $5 billion Vinted empire’
World's first womb transplant baby
The Chindits
The founding of USAID
Discovering the Titanic
John Lennon's final headline concerts
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
Creating CAPTCHA
The creation of the International Criminal Court
Geneva Conventions
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
Spot the Dog
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
Borobudur Temple
The Santa Cruz Massacre
1965 Singaporean independence
Brazil’s biggest bank heist
The Assam-Tibet earthquake
When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
Nagasaki bomb
Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
A Chorus Line
The invention of Kevlar
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
Italo disco
The 'Turbot War'
Greece’s debt crisis
The Iran nuclear deal
The start of Voice of America
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'
Dancing in the Street: David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Back to the Future
Drill, baby, drill!
Cecil the lion
Ai Weiwei: Imprisoned for art
Italian happiness trains
The opening of the Medellin Metro
The funeral train for Robert Kennedy
The Czech Freedom Train
The Gratitude Train: France thanks America
Making Jaws
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Civil rights swim-in
Charleston church shooting
'Tripperburgen' the sexual health clinics that detained women
The Schengen Agreement
Ronald Reagan’s ‘Tear down this wall’ speech
Lonesome George: The celebrity tortoise
The woman born in a prisoner of war camp
World War Two’s Rome escape line
Usonia: Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘utopian’ town
The discovery of the first exoplanets
Favela life: The diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
The world’s largest model train set
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
The Battle of the Beanfield
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
The Tragically Hip's final gig
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
The founding of Magnum Photos
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series
Lunch atop a Skyscraper
Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment
Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants
The founding of the Warsaw Pact
Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals
Intervision Song Contest
Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group
VE Day celebrations
Sinking of the Lusitania
The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker
Conclave: How a new pope is chosen
Snake: Popularising mobile gaming
Ten countries join the EU in one night
The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War
Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975
Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle
The death of Adolf Hitler
Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa
Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'
The creation of YouTube
Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
The origin of World Book Day
Clearing landmines in Cambodia
The Khmer Rouge take power in Cambodia
The invention of the white LED lightbulb
The Bali Nine drug smuggling case
Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Oklahoma City bombing
Liberia’s women in white who helped end civil war
The Reichstag fire
The UN retreat from Somalia
Resusci Anne: the world’s first life-saving resuscitation dummy
JFK’s 1963 Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
The Wonder Woman of DC Comics
The invention of superglue
The 'ghost town' of Namibia
The father of Ethio-Jazz
Harold Riley’s 'one of a kind' portrait of Nelson Mandela
The suspicious death of Rear Admiral Durović
Goodluck Jonathan’s phone call that changed Nigeria
The Germanwings plane crash
The visionary behind the European Space Agency
The historic handshake in space
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
First spacewalk
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
The Capitol Crawl
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
The invention of GPS
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
The Great Toyota War
The US invasion of Panama
The invention of the shopping trolley
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
Africa’s stolen Metis children
Surviving Chile's tsunami
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
The Nellie massacre
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Assassination of Malcolm X
Murder at the Berlin Wall
Bolivia’s first indigenous president
Bo: The death of a language
The world's longest kiss
Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita
Paul Keating's Redfern speech
Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech
Eisenhower's farewell address
La Pasionaria: Heroine of the Spanish Civil War
Heathers: The making of a cult classic
The first global case of coral bleaching
Cuban blindness
Oradour massacre
Jacques Derrida: ‘Rock star’ philosopher
English TV lessons in China go primetime
1968 New York City teachers' strike
Lithuania's 'wolf children'
The Baltic chain protest
The Milltown Cemetery attack
The launch of Windows 95
Replacing the Panchen Lama
The murder of Maurizio Gucci
Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Hunting the Unabomber
Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine
'I wrote Schindler's List'
Kobe earthquake
Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction
Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal
The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks
The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
The invention of the hotel key card
Charlie Hebdo attack
Marie Kondo
Creating Alexa
Klaus Fuchs: Oppenheimer’s atomic spy
Robert Ripley and the ‘Believe It or Not’ empire
Indian Ocean tsunami - Aceh
Indian Ocean tsunami - Tamil Nadu
Dinner for One: How an English comedy became a German tradition
'Kimchi war'
Chef to five presidents
When instant noodles came to India
'I created MasterChef'
Australian republic referendum
Poland's bleak Christmas
Ceefax: the start of interactive television
Surviving Andes plane crash
Peshawar school massacre
The birth of reggaeton
The handover of the Panama Canal
The Purple Heart Warriors
Castro's Cuban revolution attempt
India’s 1998 nuclear tests
Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
The ‘Three Marias’
The discovery that led to Covid vaccines
Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine
The end of the US HIV travel ban
The deepest man-made hole in the world
Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
The Iran-Contra Affair
Creation of the UFC
Lord of the Flies
Handover of Macau
The Siege of Yarmouk
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
German naturists
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
India's capsule coal mine rescue
How Greece got rid of their king
The Pakistan mountain massacre
The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
The Shah of Iran's party
In exile from Iran
Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Brazil’s electronic voting
The Ken Burns Effect
Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator
The creation of Greenwich Mean Time
My dad created Dungeons & Dragons
Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal
Ethiopia's 1984 famine
I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica
The fight to stop skin lightening in India
Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt
Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings
Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child
The Rose Revolution in Georgia
The Sunflower Movement
'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
How the QR code was invented
The world's first general purpose electronic computer
WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot
Eliza: When chatbots started
The longest plane hijacking in Latin America
The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea
South Africa’s nuclear weapons
Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass
The Estonia ferry disaster
South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
Arrested for 'immorality' in South Africa
Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
Designing the Google logo
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
India’s plague outbreak
Camouflaging Leningrad
The invention of the CT scanner
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
The end of the Irish marriage bar
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
The woman who spoke to the space station
Guatemala's disappeared
Waris Dirie
The writer of Mary Poppins
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
Spain's La Tomatina
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
India’s first female bartender
Nazis in Egypt
The celebrity murder case that divided France
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
The last ever Olympic art competition
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
The first televised US presidential debate
President Richard Nixon resigns
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
The Situation Room photograph
Ice Bucket Challenge
The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
Building the Moscow Metro
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
The 1924 Paris Olympics
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
The missing people of Cyprus
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
Italy's 'poison ships'
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
How the air fryer was invented
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
Georgia’s political crisis
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
I designed Hello Kitty
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
The first mega cruise ship
The beginning of Benidorm
How Cancún became a tourist destination
The first budget transatlantic flights
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
Kielland disaster
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Saving lives on D-Day
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
The Flint water crisis
The first Aboriginal MP
The first ever quintuplets
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
How Air Jordans were created
Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
Baghdad heavy metal
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia
The creation of the state of Israel
The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians
Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal
How a billion Indians got a digital ID
The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik
East Germany's coffee from Vietnam
Friends: The making of a smash hit
The Channel Tunnel breakthrough
Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'
How to win friends and influence people
How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world
Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
Deadly Everest avalanche
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender
St Teresa of Avila's severed hand
The Scream: A stolen masterpiece
How Lake Karla in Greece was drained
The 2010 Kampala bombings
Bonus: The Black 14
ESweden's Cinnamon Bun Day
The Bluetooth story
Sweden's pioneering paternity leave
The man who invented the seat belt
Fifty years of Abba
Surviving the Rwandan genocide
The founding of Nato
Britain's first beach for nudists
The Heimlich Manoeuvre
Britain's Mirpuri migration
Wham! in China
Discovering the Terracotta Army
The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Paraguay adopts its second language
Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
11M: The day Madrid was bombed
MH370: The plane that vanished
Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
French child evacuees of World War Two
Uruguay v the tobacco giant
The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru
The lost Czech scrolls
Crimea's Soviet holiday camp
Russia annexes Crimea
Whistler: Creating one of the world’s biggest ski resorts
Columbus Lighthouse
Trans murder in Honduras
Icelandic women's strike
The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs
Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war
The small Irish town known as ‘Little Brazil’
The Juliet letters
Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress
The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
The Battle of Versailles: Catwalk clash of American and French fashion
How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism
Lucha Reyes: Peruvian music star
A young mother saved from death by stoning
Queen of the 'fro
First internet cafe
The Arctic’s doomsday seed vault
Brazil's Landless Workers Movement
Silenced by the Vatican
Jack Strong aka Ryszard Kukliński: Cold War traitor or hero?
The Hungarian footballer executed for love
Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
Jamuna Tudu: The real life 'Lady Tarzan'
Ibadan Zoo
Tortured in Iran's Evin Prison
The Green March: Moroccans take over the Sahara
The hunger-striking Bolivian president
Gürtel scandal: Spain's Watergate
The first World Laughter Day
Russian ballerina defects to the west
The mystery of France's lost king
The world’s first lesbian couple to get married
What the 1989 solar storm did to Quebec
The Hindenburg airship disaster
The invention of the wingsuit
Discovery of the hole in the earth’s ozone
Earth: A pale blue dot in the universe
Ken Hom's 'Chinese Cookery'
The disputed history of pad Thai
Flavr Savr tomato: The world's first genetically-engineered food
Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit
Inventing Nutella
'The bad boy of Welsh politics'
Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt
The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda
The assassination of King Faisal
Tsunami devastates Samoa
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
Murder of the Romanovs
The release of DOOM
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets
La Haine: The film that shocked France
World's first solar-heated home
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths
The bird that defied extinction
Cabbage Patch Kids
The Mumbai attacks
The Paris heatwave
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
The invention of bubble tea
The independence of Zambia
Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
The Bolivian Water War
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
The invention of the EpiPen
The hippo and the tortoise
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
Debbie McGee in Iran
Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour
Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
Inventing the black box
The discovery of the HIV virus
The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
Turkey: Gezi Park protests
'The streets of Harare were littered with money'
The 1993 MAD hijack
The 1980 Turkey coup
The first Bosphorus Bridge
Osmondmania
Launching Lagos Fashion Week
Mexico’s murdered women
Rana Plaza building collapse
Cambodian peace walk
Surviving an acid attack and changing the law
Kwame Nkrumah: Ousted from power
Theodosia Okoh: Designer of Ghana’s flag
The 84-year-old primary school pupil
Yinka Shonibare: Nelson's Ship in a Bottle
Protectors of the Amazon
The Amoco Cadiz oil spill
Nigeria strikes oil
The oilfield that changed Kazakhstan
The oil crisis of 1973
The first cat cafe
The Lampedusa shipwreck tragedy
Kassandra: The peacekeeping telenovela in Bosnia
Concorde's first flight
Vietnam War: Stopping nuclear disaster
The year of the vuvuzela
Kenya: Nairobi shopping mall attack
The first person inside the 'Gates of Hell'
Fighting for legal abortion in Italy
Nazi eugenics
The Ramallah concert
The siege at the Church of the Nativity
Ariel Sharon visits al-Aqsa
Camp David Summit: How Middle East peace talks failed
Oslo Peace Accords: The secret talks behind Middle East deal
Victor Jara: killed in Chile's coup
Organising Chile's 1973 military coup
Murder of Swedish politician Anna Lindh
Bi Kidude: Zanzibar's 'golden grandmother of music'
Arctic 30: Russian arrest of Greenpeace campaigners
Leaving China to study after the Cultural Revolution
Saving Guadalupe from goats
Egypt's Rabaa massacre
North and South Korean leaders meet for the first time in decades
The Bristol bus boycott
Women invade Dublin's male-only swimming spot
Celtic Tiger: Ireland's 'ghost estates'
The first Rose of Tralee
How electricity came to rural Ireland
Easter Rising in Ireland
The Wizard of Oz: The stolen ruby slippers
Judy Garland: The final shows
Returning Benin Bronzes
Iran: How the prime minister was overthrown in 1953
The boy who discovered a new species of human ancestor
Jean-Michel Basquiat bursts onto the New York art scene
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's diamonds scandal
Sarajevo’s haven of peace
The Great Train Robbery
Brownie Wise: The creator of Tupperware parties
Dinosaur in court
Treehouse on the Berlin Wall
Birth of a new language
First dinosaur eggs identified in India
José Mujica: Prison break to president
Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway
The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie
The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit
Brain: A personal computer virus
Escaping the Nazis in Greece
The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis
The birth of Barbie
Japan surrenders in China
The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia
Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’
Creating the first emoji
When disposable nappies were invented
Inventing Rubik’s Cube
Invention of the ballpoint pen
A right royal night out
When tourism came to the Maldives
The National Health Service begins
Longest-serving democratically elected communist government
The trial of John Demjanjuk
I made Lady Gaga's meat dress
The 'graveyard' for communist statues
Sampoong department store disaster
First reports of Ebola
JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
My dad played golf on the moon
The Empire Windrush arrives
Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Uprising in East Germany
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
1955 Le Mans disaster
Last communist march before Hitler
Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder
Inuit children taken from families
The first Indian woman to conquer Everest
Tragedy on Everest
Mallory on Everest
Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest
Edmund Hillary conquers Everest
The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world
Trying to unite Africa
Chasing the world’s biggest tornado
Fikret Alić
EThe sergeants' coup in Suriname
Pippi Longstocking
Creating New Zealand's national walking trail
The Dambusters
German child evacuees of World War Two
Singapore executes Filipina maid
World War II victory in North Africa
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak
The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’
United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny
Last King of Bulgaria
The 'execution' of Oliver Cromwell
Jean-Bédel Bokassa's coronation
The king under the car park
The fight to televise the Queen's Coronation
The Met Gala goes global
Guatemala's outspoken bishop
Discovering the secrets of DNA
Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen'
The Russian man who pretended to be a dog
Smoky the World War II dog hero
Roselle the 9/11 guide dog
The world's first labradoodle
The first dog in space
Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
EI led the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers
Mass grave at Sernyky
The universal recycling symbol
Emperor Tewodros II
The Good Friday Agreement referendum
Beto Perez: 'I created Zumba by accident'
Awaji Kannon: One of the world's tallest statues
Pan-European picnic
Escaping national service in Eritrea
EA Brief History of Time
The first photo sent from a phone
Godfather of manicures
How Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley
The windmill that revolutionised wind power
Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy'
The man who lived in an airport
DDLJ: India’s longest running movie
Alcatraz: The strangest escape
Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story
Iraq War: US security guards killed my son
Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein
Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards
Iraq War: Refugees escaping
Iraq War: The beginning
From a goddess to a graduate
Monica McWilliams’ role in the Northern Ireland peace process
First all-women peacekeeping unit
Mexico's first female presidential hopeful
Octavia E. Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer
Zoran Djindjic: The murder of Serbia's prime minister
The museum at the end of the world
Grenada's underwater sculpture park
Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Wounded Knee siege
When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'
Families interned in WW2 China
The invention of Semtex
Seggae riots in Mauritius
Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin
First winter ascent of Everest
Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb
'I developed Pokémon'
First Danish queen for 600 years
'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted
'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'
The Pope and Jews
Pope John Paul I’s sudden death
Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II
How a Pope is chosen
The first black music station in Europe
The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye
Columbia space shuttle disaster
Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'
Palestine Post bombing
Invention of the MP3
Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner
Smolensk air disaster
Japanese death row guard
When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy
France's nuclear tests in Algeria
Kosovo’s house schools
Europe's horse meat scandal
Miracle on the Hudson
World’s first tidal power station
Galápagos Islands’ sea cucumber dispute
Paul Robeson and the transatlantic phone line
Dutch North Sea flood
Plastics in oceans
Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest
The man Pinochet wanted dead
When America banned silicone breast implants
Arctic African
One team in Tallinn
The birth of the Slow Food Movement
Inventing instant noodles
Malta's bread strike
Inventing Chicken Manchurian
Creating ciabatta bread
Chile mine rescue
Grozny siege
Colombia's 'false positives' killings
The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain
Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service
Felix Baumgartner's huge leap
Soviet fashionista
Returning to District Six
The Nazi occupation of Jersey
Mongolian revolution
Creating Teletubbies
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
Miss World protest
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
Mombasa terror attacks
How cat's eyes were invented
The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim
When Sweden’s roads went right
First women’s minister in Iran
The invention of the seat belt
Qatar's first female published author
First Emirati female teacher
Inventing robot camel jockeys
Burj Khalifa: Designing the world’s tallest building
Formation of the United Arab Emirates
The child evacuees of World War Two
Māori protests stops South African rugby tour
The assassination of Pim Fortuyn
First rape crisis centres in the US
Polynesian Panthers
Umuganda: Rwanda's community work scheme
Dame Carmen Callil: Feminist publisher
Campaigning against sex-selection in India
Albania’s Stalinist purges
The Little Black Book survival guide
Julia Gillard’s misogyny speech
Arrested for wearing trousers in Sudan
Theatre siege in Moscow
The Iranian Revolution and women
Indonesia’s indigenous people take a stand
Founder of the Cuban National Ballet
Cuba's boxing ban
The ‘army’ that taught Cuba to read and write
Cuban Missile Crisis: The showdown
Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
Torturing strikers in South Korea
Disney animators' strike
UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
The Harder They Come
The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
The release of Gilad Shalit
The funk and soul club that changed Manchester
EDassler brothers’ rift
The raising of the Mary Rose
Castrating Pablo Escobar's hippos
The power of Jomo Kenyatta
Festival of Light
Iran-Iraq War begins
The first Pope to visit Africa
Ancient fossils give new insight
World War Two child evacuees in Britain
The last days of Queen Victoria
When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle fire
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby
The car that charmed Brazil
The Candelaria child massacre
Building of Brasilia
The murder that shocked Brazil
Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy
Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya
Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika
Princess Diana dances with John Travolta
The 'Last Indian'
Marikana Massacre
India's onion election
The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard
The Gay Games
Hundreds die in Darayya
Bulgaria's cash crisis
The Bard of Bengal
The death of Jawaharlal Nehru
The last Viceroy of India
India's Partition - Part Two
India's Partition - Part One
The nightclub that changed Ibiza
Discovering Hale Bopp
Indonesia's forest fires
Sweden’s pronoun battle
The resignation of President Nixon
The return of Asians to Uganda
The city shaped by Ugandan Asians
EThe exodus of Asians from Uganda
EWhen Asians were forced to leave Kenya
EWhy Asians came to Uganda
The Leaflet Bomber
The Tangshan Earthquake
Inventing nicotine patches
The Surkov leaks
Ukraine's Revolution on Granite
Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco
The Soviet James Bond
Who shot JR?
Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’
The school for telenovela stars
Fighting for the pill in Japan
The man who invented the Pill
When Tunisia led on women's rights
Poland's strict abortion law
How abortion was legalised in Great Britain
The US’s first gay election candidate
How the smear test was invented
Japanese university student riots
The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works
Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City
Hong Kong: Abandoned children
Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China
Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner
Hong Kong: The handover
The UK's first official gay Pride March
Egypt's first democratic presidential election
The killing of Vincent Chin
Robot Surgeon
India's surrogacy capital
Cambodia war crimes
James Joyce and Ulysses
New York's LGBT High School
Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'
Holy Cross school dispute
The Gulabi Gang
How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
Saving Gabon's rainforest
The Diary of Anne Frank
The assassination of Bobby Kennedy
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Sarin attack in Syria
Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world
Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells
The attack on Lod Airport
EGeorgia O'Keeffe
The World Festival of Black Arts
The museum of banned Russian art
The last days of Frida Kahlo
Meeting Picasso
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
Chasing the Marcos millions
Shanghai at War
The first McDonald's in Moscow
People Power in the Philippines
The war in Transnistria
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
Soviet nuclear missile alert
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
The chemistry of cannabis
Roe v Wade
Surviving the Falkands War
Algeria's rebel footballers
The Algerians who fought for France
Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
The battle for Kinder Scout
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
Women's rights in Basra
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
The World Wide Web
How Tinder changed the dating game
Greece's Great Famine
The largest war crimes trial in history
Nato intervenes in Kosovo
The Great American Grain Robbery
The handshake in Space
The Soviet Afghan War Begins
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
Escaping a Maoist cult
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Banksy’s first street art mural
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
The Budapest Memorandum
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
The Shard
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
Teheran's Freedom Tower
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
The Wages for Housework campaign
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
The takeover of NTV in Russia
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
Putin's war in Chechnya
Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
The death of Trayvon Martin
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
Nixon in China
The first sex worker strike
The world's first civil union
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
The Berlin Patient
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
The invention of Google Maps
The demise of the Soviet Union
The first Emirati female teacher
The day the world looked up
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
The Good Friday Agreement
IRA gun-running in America
Bloody Sunday
British troops in Northern Ireland
A Cold War love affair
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The rise of Boko Haram
The first silicone breast implants
Costa Concordia
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
Marcel Proust
The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
Lego
Tetris
Grand Theft Auto: How the Scottish game outraged on release
Pong and the birth of computer games
The home of Santa Claus
Bahrain's 2011 protests
The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
Rudolf Nureyev defects
Tanzania's first elected albino MP
Bangladesh wins independence
On the front line in Bangladesh
Rape as a weapon in Bangladesh
The birth of Bangladesh
The Bengali language movement
The explosion heard by millions
The Aldi kidnap
Spies or plane-spotters?
The V2 rocket
Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police
Derek Jarman
South Africa and Aids drugs
AZT: The breakthrough treatment for Aids
The early days of HIV/Aids
The Aids 'patient zero' myth
The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Estonia’s internet ‘Tiger Leap’
The doctor who helped her mother to die
Europe's last smallpox epidemic
The Woman in Gold by Gustav Klimt
Sudan's October Revolution
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
The capture of war criminal Radovan Karadzic
Kuwaiti oil fires of 1991
Shoot: A milestone in performance art
The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
Spying in Berlin
Chanel No. 5
Britain's Black Schools
When Eritrea silenced its critics
The end of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
The enduring legend of Fu Manchu
Judgement at Nuremberg
The miracle of walking
Kilimanjaro: Africa’s disappearing glaciers
The child climate activist of the 1990s
How the world woke up to climate change
The world's first environment conference
Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'
Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Polish refugees in Africa
The mysterious death of Samora Machel
The first transgender minister in the Church of England
The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
The story of 'Baby Jessica'
Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally
Winning the Arabic Booker prize
Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer
A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain
London's first black policeman
The Tanker War
Petra Kelly and the German Greens
'Mad cow disease' and CJD
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
The rise of the Taliban
Kenya: Westgate Mall attack
James Bond on screen
The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
Mexico's miracle water
Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
The Peter Principle
Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune
The earthquake that devastated Haiti
The lost king of France
The Attica prison rebellion
9/11: The backlash against American Muslims
America attacks Afghanistan
The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud
North Korea's founding father
The businessman who defied the Mafia
Surviving the fall of Saigon
The first modern electric car
Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
Syria's rebel poet
Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
My father survived the sinking of the Titanic
John Maynard Keynes
When The Queen met Ceaușescu
Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages
India's secret freedom radio
US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon
The man who coined the term genocide
Inside an East German jail
East Germany's nudists
Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann
Escaping from East Berlin
The building of the Berlin Wall
Gay activism in 1990s India
Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves
Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War
Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women
Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer
The Tsunami and Fukushima
The soldier who never surrendered
The birth of Karaoke
Japan's Bullet Train
When war came to Darfur
Surviving Norway's day of terror
The Battle of Gondar
Domestic violence in Brazil
England's summer of riots
When the Taliban took Kabul
Jane Goodall and chimpanzees
Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution
The race for the jet engine
The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
The first World Romani Congress
The famine in North Korea
Britain's wartime gold
Cuba's blindness epidemic
China's trailblazing foreign students
The Chinese Communist Party
The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime
Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings
China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'
The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'
Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire
The Stonewall Inn
China's 'Economic Miracle'
The Trabant
The police rape interview that shocked Britain
The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
The Fall of Madrid
The elections that Hamas won
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
Tunisia’s legal brothels
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
How Switzerland defeated its heroin epidemic
Afghanistan's poppy problem
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
The killing of Pablo Escobar
The war on drugs
The Tulsa Race Massacre
ERock concert for Chernobyl
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
The first Arab woman pilot
The strike that shocked India
Fighting forced marriage in war
Saving the world's wetlands
Striking in South Korea in 1980
When Ariel Sharon visited the Al-Aqsa compound
China's Democracy Wall
The trial of South Africa’s 'Dr Death'
The Jewish exodus from Iraq
Legalising contraception in Ireland
Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline
The Great Wine Fraud
Ursula Le Guin
The IRA hunger strikes
How Amsterdam became the cannabis smoking capital of Europe
The battle of Tora Bora
The Nairobi US Embassy bombing
EMeeting Osama bin Laden
The siege of Mecca
The first space shuttle mission
How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant
The Raymond Davis Incident
The return of Blue Lake
The Eichmann trial
China's 'Kingdom of women'
The vultures saved from extinction
Fighting for Castro at the Bay of Pigs
How a worm helped explain human development
The US Supreme Court's first woman justice
Discovering the Jet Stream
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
David Attenborough's First Expedition
Mexico's female serial killer
The women who reclaimed the night
Black Jesus
Kidnapped on an orchid hunt
Mrs Thatcher’s ground-breaking Soviet TV interview
When the prisoners ran the prison
Anorexia nervosa
South Africa takes on big pharma
The woman who got America talking about sex
Jamaica’s ‘drug lord’
The Ulster Workers' Strike
The dirtiest chess match in history
Mars-500 isolation experiment
Alva Myrdal - the woman who made modern Sweden
Paris is Burning
Jane: The underground abortion network
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
The women of Egypt's Arab Spring
Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech
The Sharpeville massacre
When US police dropped explosives on a Philadelphia home
Refugee Island
The world's deepest dive 11km down
The WW2 airman from Sierra Leone
The fall of Kwame Nkrumah
Ireland's bank bailout
Acid rain
Mary Wilson
Free breakfasts with the Black Panthers
The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part two
Britain's forgotten slave owners: Part one
How US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter in the first Gulf War
A Ghanaian nurse's story
The paper that helped the homeless
Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
Francis Bacon in the archives
DES Daughters
General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel
Drugs in the Vietnam War
The Burma uprising of 1988
The Moscow State Circus
The first Eurostar from England to France
The anthem of the Arab Spring
Libya's Arab uprising
Yemen's 2011 uprising
Syria in the Arab Spring
Egypt's Facebook Girl
Fighting for justice for India's Sikhs
Kenya's pioneering publisher
The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Landing on Titan
Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
Puerto Rican attack at the US Capitol
When Spain's parliament was stormed
The book that warned 2020 would bring disaster
Sequencing the Ebola virus genome
The 'strike' in space
Buddhists and death row
The oldest song in the world
Le Corbusier and Chandigarh
The building of the Aswan Dam
UNESCO and race and tolerance
It's a Wonderful Life
Studio Ghibli - Japan's Oscar-winning animators
Satyajit Ray - India's master of film
The Sound of Music
The Great Dictator
The GDR's Namibian children
The blockade of Gibraltar
British reality TV is born
The birth of Bangladesh
White Christmas
The return of the beaver
Neanderthal cave mystery
Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace
The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming'
The life and work of Chester Himes
The V1 flying bomb
The slaves who defeated Napoleon
France's Muslim headscarf ban
Iraq's pioneering feminist
How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991
The fight for disabled rights in the UK
Rwanda at the Paralympics
India's campaign for disability rights
Britain's little blue disability car
Helen Keller
When the Egyptian president went to Israel
Our Bodies, Ourselves
America's WW2 refugee camp
The world's first woman premier
Captured by Somali pirates
The 'good enough' mother
When Pluto lost its planet status
World War One in Africa
Makaton - the signing system that changes lives
The Guerrilla Girls
The church that rose from the rubble
The 1945 Pan-African Congress
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
'I just wanted to be white'
The sex musical that wowed New York and London
With the president on 9/11
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
The Watergate scandal
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
When JFK won the US presidency
Nasa's pioneering black women
The missing victims of apartheid
The Cutter Incident
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
The last of the Kazakh herders
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
The launch of CNN
The Battle of Lewisham
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
Britain's first black woman headteacher
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
The house by the lake
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
The founding of Google
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
Blackwater killed my son
When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit
How Liberia wrote off its debts
The Galileo project
The mothers of Argentina's disappeared
Tank Man
The Mau Mau struggle against British rule
Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus
Why the US rejected universal healthcare
Banning alcohol in an Indian state
The birth of Reddit
The Dawson's Field hijacking
Haiti's cholera outbreak
Care in the Community
The Cape Town bombings
The birth of the Sony Walkman
Flying through a volcano
Inventing James Bond
Who has the right to vote in America?
St Kilda
Occupy Wall Street
America's first woman combat pilot
Margaret Ekpo - Nigeria's feminist pioneer
The siege at Ruby Ridge
The American who put women's rights in the Japanese constitution
The Guatemalan syphilis scandal
The first modern asthma inhaler
The lost King of England
Surviving Saddam
The invention of the modern ventilator
Scoring a victory for women's rights in Turkey
Beirut's Hotel War
Bremen’s Elephant Statue
Radar and World War Two
The atomic bombs dropped on Japan
The battle of Midway
The internment of Japanese Americans
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The death of Heinrich Himmler
Benidorm and the birth of package tourism
Adrift for 76 days
Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
The fastest vaccine ever developed
The first safe house for Afghan women
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
The Million Man March
The man who tried to kill Hitler
South Korea's 1980s prison camps
The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors
Returning Ethiopia's looted history
How Club Med changed holidays
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
The death of Frida Kahlo
Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
The lost Nazi-era art trove
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
The Rolling Stones drugs trial
Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement
Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism
The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'
Tanzania's socialist experiment
South Korea's economic miracle
The New Deal
The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise
The friendship train
Sex trafficking and peacekeepers
Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief
Three Strikes Law
Rodney King and the LA riots
Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western
The 16th Street church bombing
Brown v the Board of Education
The portable defibrillator
The origin of the WHO
How Christo wrapped the Reichstag
The Zanzibar Revolution
The start of eco-tourism
Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer
Winston Churchill's doctor
The Gwangju massacre
The book that changed the way we eat
Britain's World War Two crime wave
Explaining autism
The first 3D printer
Kowloon Walled City
The Miami riots
Sweden's fishy submarine scare
Confessions of a Prince
Fighting for the pill in Japan
The first 24-hour children's helpline
The liberation of the Channel Islands
VE Day
The Soviet occupation of Berlin
The battle for Berlin
The death of Hitler
The Wehrmacht exhibition that shocked Germany
Hiroshima's trees of hope
The Galapagos sea cucumber dispute
The assassination of the UN's first Middle East mediator
The 1957 flu that killed a million people
Waria warriors - the fight for trans rights in Indonesia
Tennessee Williams on the BBC
The Brompton Manley Ventilator
Edhi: Pakistan's 'Angel of Mercy'
The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade
The Deepwater Horizon disaster
A space crash
When Skylab fell to Earth
The last men on the Moon
The first iPhone
Nasa's female aquanauts
The unlikely pioneers of online shopping
The Trojan Room coffee pot
The Homebrew computer club
Being a Chinese Muslim
The Swedish warship restored after 300 years
Avenging the Amritsar Massacre
The trembling giant
Britain's first woman judge
The AIDS Memorial Quilt
The Cheonan sinking
The Saudi bombardment of Yemen
Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus
The Chinese cure for malaria
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
The 'I Love You' computer virus
The Major and the VW Beetle
Red Hollywood
The fight to make sexual harassment a crime
Marburg virus
The SARS epidemic
The polio vaccine
The Ebola virus
The 'Spanish' flu
Battling Soviet psychiatric punishment
Strikers in saris
The petrol that was poisoning children
Womenomics in Japan
Freeing American prisoners from Iran
The last smallpox outbreak
The rebel nuns who left their convent behind
The first mobile phone call
An Antarctic mystery
Saving Antarctica
Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun'
Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria
How meditation changes your brain
The Pale Blue Dot
The Rules: A dating handbook
The best-seller Fear of Flying
The man who first published Harry Potter
Chairman Mao's Little Red Book
The release of Nelson Mandela
The Native American casino boom in the US
Witnessing the birth of a new language
Cixi: China's most powerful woman
London's first black policeman
The Treaty of Rome
The first self-made female millionaire
The ancient oak tree that taught the world a lesson
Reforming India's rape laws
The Way Ahead group: Modernising the Royal Family
The frozen zoo
The discovery of whalesong
Silent Spring: A book that changed the world
How the dodo died out
The mystery of the disappearing frogs
The killing of Osama Bin Laden
The story of George Stinney Jr
The woman who negotiated peace with a rebel group
Storming the Stasi HQ
Britain's National Trust
The battle for Fallujah
The Computers for Schools revolution
The murder of environmentalist Chico Mendes
The exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
German atrocities in Poland during WW2
East Germany's punks
Desmond's: A sitcom that changed Britain
The book that predicted an end to civilisation
Negotiating an end to El Salvador's civil war
The Chippendales
Vietnam war: Surviving the 'Christmas bombing' campaign
Cirque du Soleil
The secret history of Monopoly
The invasion of Afghanistan
Fighting cancer
The creation of Abuja
Bee crisis: Colony Collapse Disorder
The Romanian revolution
Women and the Sabarimala temple
Black GIs during World War Two
The attack on India's parliament
The killing of Amadou Diallo
The IRA siege at Balcombe Street
The battle of the Louvre pyramid
The Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro
Jaslyk – Uzbekistan’s infamous prison
The British sculptor who won over the world
Shackleton
The killing of Pablo Escobar
The first confirmed case of HIV in America
Handing back Uluru
From cakes to computers
India's economic revolution
The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking
Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter
The man who got Delhi on track
I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests
The 'Woman in Gold'
The first Tasers
The first Indian to win Miss World
The Love Canal disaster
The demolition of the Babri Masjid
Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail
Memories of Wilfred Owen
The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall
The Bhagalpur blindings
EBritain's secret propaganda war
A ground-breaking change to treating breast cancer
Iran hostage crisis: the humanitarian delegation
Saving the Great Barrier Reef
'Jane' - the underground abortion service
The Algerians who fought with France
The Paris hotel that hosted Holocaust survivors
Margaret Thatcher's anti-Europe speech
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The Leipzig demonstrations
East German refugees in the Prague embassy
The reburial of a Hungarian hero
The legalisation of Solidarity
Wangari Maathai Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist
Britain's worst nuclear accident
The man who fed the world
Mexico City slashes car use
Proving climate change: The Keeling curve
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
The Bristol bus boycott
The Notting Hill riots
The first black woman MP in Britain
Learie Constantine - fighting racism in the UK
China opens up to capitalism
The 1967 Hong Kong riots
Mao's Cultural Revolution
My memories of Chairman Mao
The birth of the People's Republic of China
The death of a matador
The Large Hadron Collider
Fighting the Islamic State group online
Being black in Nazi Germany
The Sound of Music on Broadway
Sir Anthony Blunt - Soviet spy
CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia
Free breakfast with the Black Panthers
The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
An Ethiopian war hero
Magellan and the first voyage around the world
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
India's affirmative action controversy
The TV series Friends
The coup, the president and the embassy
The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia
The Holocaust denial trial
Inside lunar astronaut quarantine
The first all-women peacekeeping unit
The outbreak of World War Two
The paedophile identified by his hands
Nina Simone moves to Liberia
The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis
Mexico's murdered women
The murder of black teenager Emmett Till
The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas
The return of the wolf
I helped liberate Paris from the Nazis
Finding El Salvador's missing children
The first human Cyborg
Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read
Catching 'Carlos the Jackal'
The warnings before 9/11
The daily disposable contact lens
The division of Kashmir
The Yangtze Incident
British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland
Criminals in the community
Under the North Pole
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
The invasion of Kuwait
The Warsaw uprising
The anti-nuclear protesters who won
The treasures of Sutton Hoo
The death of David Kelly
Humanity's earliest ancestor
When Tunisia led on women's rights
The Chappaquiddick Incident
LGBT 'cooperative' marriages in China
Mamma Mia!
The Beagle 2 mission to Mars
Apollo 13
The Moon Landing
Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut
Laika, the first dog in space
Kenya's ivory inferno
Cuba executes top military officers
The Common Cold Unit
China puts tampons on sale
The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'
The indigenous fight to stop nuclear waste disposal
The launch of the Walkman
Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'
Germans kidnapped by Nicaragua's rebels
The US judge accused of sexual harassment
Defending a British serial murderer
EThe Stonewall Riot
The Anfal genocide
Catch-22
The fat acceptance movement
The yoga teacher and the violinist
Sister Lotus - early Chinese online star
The assassinaton of Medgar Evers
Carl Gustav Jung
The death of Neda Soltan
The first gay marriage in the USA
How America 'lost' China
Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag
The first anti-psychotic drug
The end of the war in Kosovo
The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality
Broadcasting D-Day
The Little Prince
D-Day
Vikings in York
Six Degrees - the first online social network
Behind the scenes on Sesame Street
Tiananmen Square escape
Bokassa's massacre of the children
The death of Jawaharlal Nehru
The Acid Survivors Foundation
How environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
Walking the Great Wall of China
Hitler's stolen children
China's One Child policy
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
Predicting the financial crash
The Karakoram highway
Strictly Come Dancing
The war on drugs
The Bauhaus
The siege of Dien Bien Phu
Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba
The Malayan Emergency
The sinking of the Belgrano
The Arctic African
Rupert Brooke
Ellen comes out
The al-Yamamah arms deals
Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave
South Africa's first free elections
Britain's first vegans
Nato bombs Serbian TV
The Columbine massacre
How organic farming started
Auto-destructive art
The first play on Broadway written by a black woman
Dennis Tito - the first space tourist
Chinese restaurant syndrome
The rise of Hindu nationalism
The man who invented wingsuits
The Amritsar Massacre of 1919
The man who made Marilyn Monroe dance
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Abolishing the army
The warship lost for more than 300 years
EMDR: the eye-movement therapy
Patty Hearst the rebel heiress
Mindfulness for the masses
The secret Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim
Around the world in 20 days
Drama in the British parliament
The first home pregnancy test
The rise of Viktor Orban
Autism and the MMR vaccine
The discovery of the Aztec Moon Goddess
The first democratic elections in the USSR
The millionaire Nazi war criminal
How Little America was built in Afghanistan
Slaughterhouse-Five
China's breakthrough malaria cure
Lenin and the deadly mushrooms
The fall of Singapore
Britain's first female black headteacher
The woman who asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles
Speaking out against my abuser: Daniel Ortega
The creation of the Barbie doll
Britain's first Muslim woman in government
Happy Beer Day!
Asama Sanso: Japanese hostage crisis
Sucked out of a plane
Swine flu shuts down Mexico City
Venezuela's oil bonanza
How science ended the search for Josef Mengele
The men who tried to warn us about smoking
The curse of Agent Orange
The Columbia space shuttle disaster
The true story of Roma
Maastricht: The birth of the European Union
Confessions of a Soviet alcoholic
British Cameroons' historic referendum
Women Airline Pilots
Iceland Jails Its Bankers
The Bombardment of Baghdad
Disney Goes to Europe
The Soweto Uprising
The Capture of Che Guevara
The Death of Hitler
Women and the Iranian Revolution
Iran Hostage Rescue Mission
Iran Hostage Crisis
Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile
Musicians of the Iranian Revolution
The Publisher Who Tried to Change the World
Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church
The Carry On Films
India's First Call Centre
The Case of Dr Crippen
The Thames Whale
Strikers In Saris
Mexico's Miracle Water
Judy Garland's Final Shows
'Fat is a Feminist Issue'
Diary of Life in a Favela
When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors
Fidel Castro Takes Havana
The Doomsday Seed Vault
Vikings in North America
Ceausescu's 'House of the People'
Barbara Cartland - Queen of Romance
Brazil's Marijuana Summer
Rebels Rout The Army In El Salvador
When Animals Go To War
Trautonium: A Revolution in Electronic Music
UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Scotland's Stone of Destiny
Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'
The Woman Who Wrote Mary Poppins
Hacking The First Computer Password
Theatre in the Sahara
China and Japan at War
The US Apologises for Wartime Internment
Englandspiel: The Deadly WW2 Spy Game
Cicely Saunders And The Modern Hospice Movement
Apollo 8
When China Joined the WTO
Angela Merkel's Rise to Power
Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family
The Armenian Earthquake
The Coronation of Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Berlin's Rubble Women
Norway's EU referendum
The Discovery of Dinosaur Eggs
The man who inspired Britain's first Aids charity
The Antarctic Whale Hunters
The Destruction Of Iraq's Marshlands
The USSR Opens Up to the West
The Last Days of Yasser Arafat
The Story Behind The Man Who Shot JFK
The 'Braceros', America's Mexican Guest Workers
The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington
Britain's Little Blue Disability Car
Japanese Murders in Brazil
The Shah in Exile
Jewish in Imperial Russia
How The Brazilian Dictatorship Made My Father Disappear
WW1: Revolution in Germany
Women Nurses during World War One
African Troops during World War One
The Battle of Passchendaele
A Kristallnacht story
Why I Slapped the German Chancellor
Princess Margaret And The War Hero
Life With America's Black Panthers
The KGB's Whistleblower
The Day Nigeria Struck Oil
When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed
The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet
Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola
The Pergau Dam Affair
Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon
The 1973 Oil Crisis
Fighting Mount Etna
Archbishop Oscar Romero
Austria at War
The Nazi Black Book
Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden
Reform of the House of Lords
Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing
The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary
The Invention of Artificial Skin
The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil
Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine
The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark
Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War
The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Isadora Duncan - Dance Pioneer
The South African Army In Lesotho
Brazil's Nuclear Accident
The Arnhem Parachute Drop
The Battle of Algiers
The Cuban Five
The Fifteen Guinea Special
The Truth About Crop Circles
How I Survived a Fire on a Plane
The Killing of Steve Biko
Appeasement
The Ship that Dumped America's Waste
WWI: The Hundred Days Offensive
From Leningrad to St Petersburg
Living Under Gaddafi
The Battle for Brick Lane
The First MRI Scan
Surviving the "Death Railway"
The Mine Disaster That Devastated Post-War Italy
The Lake Nyos Disaster
Hitler's League Of German Girls
Benidorm
Hitler's Architect
Baba of Karo
USSR Wages War on Alcohol
Prague Spring
The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis
The Invention of Instant Noodles
When TV Came To South Africa
Photographing Martin Luther King and His Family
Vera Brittain: Anti-Bombing Campaigner
Israel's Secret Peace Envoy
The Azeri-Armenian Village Swap
The First CIA Coup in Latin America
The Search for Iran's Nuclear Programme
The Retirement Home For Dancing Bears
Shambo The Sacred Bull
WW1: Britain's Conscientious Objectors
Women At West Point
Winston Churchill's Election Defeat
The Whitewashing of Zimbabwe's Ancient History
The Kitchen Debate
South Korea's Summer Of Terror
A Vet Remembers The Hyde Park Bombing
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Bombing of the King David Hotel
The Virgin Lands Campaign
The Killing of the Russian Tsar
Italy's 'Ghost Shipwreck'
The Spiegel Affair
Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Kosovo: 'Madeleine's War'
Playgrounds Made of Junk
The Toilet
Flight 655: When The US Shot Down An Airliner
The Search For Deep Throat
The President and the Gun Lobby