Witness History Episodes Available now
The Galileo project
A mission to study the planet Jupiter finally came to an end on 21st September 2003
The mothers of Argentina's disappeared
The women who began protesting after their children were taken away by soldiers
Tank Man
A photo of a man confronting a tank in China caught the world's imagination in 1989
The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in
In 1960 four young black men began a protest against racial segregation in the USA.
The Mau Mau struggle against British rule
In the 1950s rebels took up arms to rid Kenya of colonial rule
Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus
Exiled dissident Nikolai Khalezin on the origins of the protest movement in Belarus
Why the US rejected universal healthcare
After WW2 US President Harry Truman argued for healthcare for all but his plan failed.
Banning alcohol in an Indian state
Punyavathi Sunkara recalls how the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995.
The birth of Reddit
In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.
Haiti's cholera outbreak
Haiti was cholera-free until UN peacekeepers brought it to the Caribbean country in 2010
