Witness History Episodes Available now
It's a Wonderful Life
A former Hollywood child star remembers filming the classic Christmas movie in 1946.
Satyajit Ray - India's master of film
An actor's memories of working with the Bengali director on the classic Apu trilogy
The Sound of Music
The real story behind the heart-warming musical released in 1965
The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin's classic satirical film about Adolf Hitler was released in 1940
The GDR's Namibian children
At Christmas 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany
The blockade of Gibraltar
How a Spanish blockade of the disputed British territory ended in December 1982.
British reality TV is born
The first British fly-on-the-wall documentary series aired on the BBC in 1974.
The birth of Bangladesh
Pakistan's first democratic elections led to the creation of a new country, Bangladesh
White Christmas
American entertainer Bing Crosby made 'White Christmas' one of the defining songs of WW2
The return of the beaver
Why beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out
