The first trains full of Jewish children left Berlin in early December - heading for sanctuary in Britain. The Kindertransports only stopped with the outbreak of war in September 1939. They helped thousands of children from all over Nazi occupied Europe to escape the Holocaust.

Children arriving at Liverpool Street station. Getty images.

The killing of 4 American churchwomen brought to light the extent of the violence in El Salvador, and the ruthless military tactics used against the liberation theology wing of the Catholic church.

The first man to cross by land from Britain to France in 8000 years tells us what it was like.

Howard Carter was an English archaeologist who had searched the Valley of the Kings for years - hoping to find the burial place of Tutankhamun. He kept a detailed record of the discovery.

In 1532 a few hundred Spanish conquistadors took on tens of thousands of Inca warriors.

As the two sides met, the Spanish governor Pisaro put out an invitation to emperor Atahualpa who was promised he would be received as a friend and a brother.

But the Inca emperor was taken captive and thousands of his followers were killed.

Freddie Mercury's personal assistant remembers the last days of the musician's battle with Aids.

The story of how acclaimed Japanese writer Yukio Mishima ended his life in a violent and bloody way.

We hear a graphic account of the killing of hundreds of captured Taliban after they rose up inside a prison in Mazar-e-Sharif in Northern Afghanistan during the first dramatic weeks of the West's invasion of the country

It is over 60 years since men at the Roswell air base in New Mexico first reported strange lights above the desert.

Then they found strange debris in the sand. But were they the remains of a UFO?

With Somali pirates on trial in the United States, we go back to the era of America's Civil War and a piracy trial that gripped the country.