True stories of heroes

Catastrophe at Chernobyl

12 seconds from death (Ronnie O'Brien)

Odette's ordeal (Odette Sansom)

Helicopter heroes

Punching a hole in the sky (Chuck Yeager)

Animal heroes

Stauffenberg's secret Germany (Claus von Stauffenberg)

Alexie Stakhanov - Soviet superstar

Blackbeard meets his match (Lieutenant Maynard)

Owens 4, master race 0 (Jesse Owens)

Rubble and strife in battlefield Beirut (Pauline Cutting)

Cosmonaut number one (Yuri Gagarin)

Death or glory for the "last gladiator" ("Evel" Knievel).