Decades That Defined Us

Kennedy, Martin Luther King, the Cold War - the decade that saw new hope, and new divisions, while counterculture would emerge to redefine our society.

Examines how the 1970s, a decade that included the Watergate scandal, the election of Margaret Thatcher and changing ideas about the West's place in international affairs, helped shape the modern world.

Computers, Chernobyl, fall of the Berlin Wall - the decade that saw politics shift to the right, reshaping the West, while democracy would triumph as the Berlin Wall fell.