The most powerful and moving pictures through past and present.

This is a most comprehensive collection of the world's most moving pictures through the years both past and present. Many pictures are of great importance in historical records, some hold importance because of the meaning it holds and the cause behind it and some just depict pure human emotion.

A Russian war veteran visits the tank that he fought in which has been preserved as a monument.

Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympic games. Both Americans were expelled from the games as a result.

Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer’s riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia

A four month-old baby is found miraculously in the rubble four days following the 2011 Japanese Tsunami.

A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.

Five year-old Tanisha Blevin holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim, one hundred five year-old Nita LaGarde as they are evacuated from the convention center in New Orleans.

A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan.

Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in California after a successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.

Jane Rose Kasmir plants a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph would eventually become the symbol of the flower power movement.

A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old.