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

Helsinki - Living in Darkness

The Finnish city's festival of light is cheering when it's dark for six months of the year

• 4 mins

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

The original manuscript is strewn with notations, calculations - and errors

• 4 mins

Chaos Theory

The complexities of real life - from weather patterns or the changes in world markets

• 4 mins

Singing for Bangladesh and Independence

Naila Zaman Khan sung to raise the spirits of refugees fleeing east Pakistan

• 4 mins

La Pasionaria's Spanish Civil War

Dolores Ibarruri won her fame with her fiery oratory rallying the anti-fascist forces

• 4 mins