
Big movements of change that have often started with tiny events or personal decisions, and ended up affecting history.

The encounter between Spanish conquistador and opportunist Hernan Cortés and the indigenous peoples of Central America is one of history's tragic tales of greed, conflict, imperial weakness and superior weaponry.

The Cuban Missile Crisis becomes one of the defining moments of the mid-20th century and of the presidency of John F. Kennedy, bringing the USSR and USA to the brink of nuclear war.

The story of fabled city Constantinople and its history of power and conflict through the ages.

The former Soviet Union's 1950s development of cotton-growing around the Aral Sea has proven to be an ecological nightmare.