The People's Champion
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Between the years 1910 and 1920, Mexico was in a state of almost constant conflict. Government succeeded government in these tumultuous years but there was one man who was consistently opposed to them all. In the south of the country the revolutionary guerilla leader Emiliano Zapata fought for a more equal distribution of land. Emeterio Pantaleon Garcia is a hundred and two years old and he's one of the last surviving members of Zapata's peasant army.

Armenia's Tradegy
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Rosa Khedirian was an infant in 1915 when the Turks murdered her parents and many others in the Armenian community living in Turkey. Her life was spared, but the Turks thrust her hand into an open fire leaving her terribly mutilated and with a constant reminder of the day she was orphaned. Despite the trauma she has suffered, Rosa bears little bitterness towards the people who so brutally altered the course of her life. Their punishment, she says, will come from God.

The First 'Talkies'
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Jack Cardiff has been working in the film industry for eighty years. He started out as a child actor in silent movies and became one of the most celebrated cinematographers of his generation. He takes us back to 1928, when he was a young man getting his first chance to work behind the camera and taking part in the most important cinematic revolution of the century - the advent of sound.

We Had Won!
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The Ghanaian born journalist Cameron Duodu has spent the last thirty years explaining Africa to the world. Looking back at those years, it's one day in 1994 that stands out most strongly in his memory. He describes how he felt as he witnessed the swearing-in of Nelson Mandela as the President of South Africa on 10th May 1994 after the country's first all-race elections.