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

Fighting Under the Israeli Flag

Netiva Ben Yehu joined the Jewish underground to fight against the British and the Arabs

• 3 mins

Votes for Women in Britain

Protests, hunger strikes, sleep deprivation and prison were endured by suffragettes

• 4 mins

Last of Their Generation

Remembering Stalin, the French Resistance, underwater photography and the Bloomsbury Group

• 28 mins

Aspects of Mental Health

Patients and professionals talk about the mental health issues that have affected them

• 28 mins

Women of the World

Women who have made their mark on the 20th Century from a prison reformer to a suffragette

• 28 mins

Changing Attitudes to Women through Indian Cinema

How stardom has helped Shabana Azmi make films that challenge traditional attitudes

• 4 mins

Filming History

Stanley Forman filmed world events to show what war really meant for ordinary people

• 4 mins

Moving From the Country to the City

"I'd never seen a building with tiles. I'd been living in a village in a round hut"

• 4 mins

African Film-maker

Portraying injustice a theme of Jean Marie Teno's films. It's got him into trouble

• 4 mins

Pioneering Movie Special Effects

Ray Harryhausen was inspired to become an animator when watching King Kong in 1933

• 4 mins

The Transit Strike of New York is Dealt with by Mayor

Ed Koch encouraged people to "walk over" the bridges that connect New York's islands

• 3 mins

Quantum Mechanics

Hans Bethe on the most influential branch of physics to have emerged in the 20th Century

• 4 mins