The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In March 1978 thieves stole the body of Charlie Chaplin from a cemetery in Switzerland.
In March 1921 Marie Stopes opened Britain's first birth control clinic in London.
The UN envoy who tried to secure the release of Western hostages in Lebanon.
Two years ago Syria's conflict began with demonstrations in the southern city of Daraa.
It is a decade since the US and its allies began their invasion of Iraq.
John Crawford was part of the US forces that rolled into Iraq in March 2003.
In April 2003, Baghdad descended into chaos as American troops took control of the city.
How one Iraqi who took a job with the US military, was threatened with death as a traitor.
In December 2003 the former Iraqi leader was finally caught by American forces.
Fifty years ago, a sex scandal threatened to engulf the British government.
The communist dictator ran one of the most feared secret police forces in Eastern Europe.
Discovered by chance by farmers digging a well, the secrets of the Qin Dynasty in China.
After their release in 1973, former US prisoners of war began to talk about torture.
On 24 March 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot dead while saying mass in San Salvador.
Over 175 years ago, Caroline Norton began to fight for the rights of married women.
A family of real boys inspired JM Barrie to write the story of Peter Pan.
As the Vietnam war ended the US tried to fly thousands of orphans out of the country.
The reclusive American billionaire remembered by one of the few journalists to meet him.
Held 24 hours after the death of Martin Luther King, the gig went ahead peacefully
In the early 1980s, thousands of civilians were killed in Zimbabwe by the security forces.
When Mao Zedong tried to force an industrial revolution in China millions starved to death
How severely burnt Second World War airmen learnt to overcome their terrible injuries.
How Lee Elder broke one of the last colour barriers in US sport in 1975
The story of a young British pilot who survived the world's first war in the air
