成人快手

Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church

Pope John XXIII wanted to modernise the Catholic Church, reforms took place in the 1960s.

• 9 mins

The Beatles' Last Gig

In 1969, the Beatles played together in public for the last time, on a London rooftop.

• 9 mins

The Publisher Who Tried to Change the World

Virago Press opened as a feminist publisher in 1972 to promote women's writing

• 9 mins

Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

How Iran's state employed musicians started recording revolutionary songs.

• 9 mins

Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile

In February 1979 an Islamic revolution began when Iran's exiled religious leader returned

• 9 mins

Iran Hostage Crisis

Barry Rosen was one of the Americans held hostage for 444 days in Tehran.

• 9 mins

Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

The US sent special forces to try to rescue hostages from their Embassy in Tehran in 1980

• 9 mins

Women and the Iranian Revolution

Many women supported Iran's 1979 Revolution but some later became disillusioned

• 9 mins

The Death of Hitler

A first-hand account of Hitler from one of his secretaries who was there at the very end

• 9 mins

The Capture of Che Guevara

How the Marxist revolutionary was captured and killed in Bolivia.

• 9 mins

The Soweto Uprising

A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked an uprising in South Africa.

• 9 mins

Disney Goes to Europe

The first Disney theme park in Europe took years of negotiations to get off the ground.

• 9 mins

The Bombardment of Baghdad

The people of Baghdad faced death when the US and its allies began their invasion of Iraq

• 9 mins

Iceland Jails Its Bankers

The man who jailed 40 top bankers in Iceland after the 2008 global credit crunch

• 9 mins

Women Airline Pilots

Two of the first female airline pilots in the US remember their struggle

• 9 mins

British Cameroons' historic referendum

The 1961 vote lies at the heart of the violent conflict in Cameroon's Anglophone region

• 9 mins

Confessions of a Soviet alcoholic

How a homeless Russian drunk wrote a secret classic

• 9 mins

Maastricht: The birth of the European Union

In 1992 European ministers signed a treaty towards greater economic and political unity.

• 9 mins

The true story of Roma

The student massacre in M茅xico portrayed in Alfonso Cuar贸n's award-winning movie.

• 9 mins

The Columbia space shuttle disaster

The US space shuttle disintegrated on its way back to Earth on February 1, 2003.

• 9 mins

The curse of Agent Orange

One woman's battle against the toxic legacy of the Vietnam War

• 9 mins

The men who tried to warn us about smoking

When doctors said cigarette smokers were dying prematurely the UK government did little.

• 9 mins

How science ended the search for Josef Mengele

A panel of scientists went to Brazil to identify the remains of the infamous Nazi in 1985

• 9 mins

Venezuela's oil bonanza

The boom and bust years of "Saudi" Venezuela in the 1970s

• 9 mins

Swine flu shuts down Mexico City

A highly infectious virus appeared in Mexico in 2009 and rapidly spread round the world

• 9 mins

Sucked out of a plane

Nine people died when a cargo door opened mid-flight over the Pacific in February 1989

• 9 mins

Asama Sanso: Japanese hostage crisis

Armed left-wing extremists fought off Japanese police in the mountains in February 1972

• 9 mins

Happy Beer Day!

On March 1st 1989 Icelanders were allowed to buy beer for the first time in decades

• 9 mins

Britain's first Muslim woman in government

Sayeeda Warsi was appointed to the coalition government's Cabinet in May 2010

• 9 mins

The creation of the Barbie doll

Hear from the woman who created the most famous doll in the world.

• 9 mins