Main content

Witness History Episodes

  1.

    The black stunt performers who took on Hollywood

    The battle to fight prejudice behind-the-scenes in the American film industry.

  2. The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin

    A decade ago protestors tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power

  3. Soviet holidays in Crimea

    Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.

  4. Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre

    The mass killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazi Germany during World War Two.

  5. The Holodomor: Ukraine's great famine

    Several million people died in the 1930s in what became known as The Holodomor

  6. The Budapest Memorandum

    The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994

  7. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster

    In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.

  8. The Shard

    The building of the controversial London skyscraper, designed by Italian Renzo Piano.

  9. Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center

    The ground-breaking building was the first American museum to be designed by a woman

  10. Teheran's Freedom Tower

    The vast monument built for the Shah, but now a centrepiece for protests in Iran.

  11. Chandigarh: India's city of the future

    How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India

  12. The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction

    The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.

  13. The Wages for Housework campaign

    How feminists in Italy began an international campaign for payment for housework in 1972.

  14. Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi

    The Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003: Dr Shirin Ebadi

  15. The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war

    The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.

  16. Gloria Steinem and Ms Magazine

    The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women

  17. Anna Akhmatova - Voice of Russia

    How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history.

  18. Russia's war in Georgia in 2008

    First-hand accounts of Russia's battle with another former Soviet republic in 2008.

  19. The takeover of NTV in Russia

    How NTV journalists tried in vain to keep their station out of President Putin's control.

  20. Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation

    How the Russian president quit and apologised to the nation in a New Year's Eve address.

  21. Putin's war in Chechnya

    An eyewitness account of the Russian invasion of the breakaway republic in 1999

  22. Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia

    Chaos and hardship hit Russia when free-market reforms were introduced overnight in 1992

  23. The 2014 annexation of Crimea

    A personal account of how Russia took over the Crimean peninsula in 2014

  24. The death of Trayvon Martin

    The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.

  25. The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2

    The Native American soldiers who talked in a secret code, helping the Allies to victory

  26. Nixon in China

    The historic visit by the American president which normalised US relations with China.

  27. The first sex worker strike

    When 200 French sex workers took refuge in a church in Lyon, it started a movement.

  28. The world's first civil union

    In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions

  29. Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama

    "Fire" was one of the first films in Indian history to depict a lesbian relationship.

  30. The Berlin Patient

    Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.

  2. 1
  3. …
  4. 38
  5. 39
  6. 40
  7. 41
  8. 42
  9. …
  10. 155