Join ABC News on a voyage through one of the most turbulent, and perhaps the most provocative decades in the 20th century.The History Of The 80s is a dramatic and enlightening program that revisits the events, places, and profiles that created headlines and shaped history. Topics included on each disc are world events, people, entertainment, sports, science, and technology.

Disc 1 (1980-1982)

Iran hostage crisis

U.S. Olympic hockey victory

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Solidarity in Poland

Chrysler Bailout

John Lennon assassination

Hostages released

Reagan inaugurated

MTV

Reagan and Pop John Paul II assassination attempts

PCs and VCRs

Charles and Diana's wedding

AIDS

Vietnam Memorial

Israeli invasion of Lebanon

Tylenol poisonings

Anti-nuclear protest

Artificial heart implanted

Disc 2 (1983-1985)

U.S. deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe

Granada invasion

Education report

Star Wars

Aquino assassination

Bhopal disaster

Central America

Presidential campaigns

Los Angeles Olympics

Bernard Goetz

Indira Ghandi assassination

Iran-Iraq War

Gorbachev assumes power

Live Aid/Farm Aid concerts

Terrorism

Apartheid in South Africa

Crack

Contras

AIDS

U.S. buyouts of corporations

Disc 3 (1986-1989)

Challenger disaster

Iceland Summit

Oliver North

Chernobyl nuclear accident

Homeless in America

Statue of Liberty Centennial

Kurt Waldheim

US bombs Libya

Wall Street crash

AIDS

Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker

Papal visit to Poland

Iran-Contra Affair

200th anniversary of US Constitution

Reagan and Gorbachev

Navy in the Persian Gulf

Pan Am Flight 103

Wall Street buyouts

PLO renounces terrorism

Benazir Bhutto

Berlin Wall

Manuel Noriega

Exxon Valdez

War on drugs

Chinese student protests

Romania

S&L crisis

Bush