Witness History Episodes Available now
The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel
A Jewish feminist group's campaign to pray freely at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist
A US government report into the riots of 1967 blamed white racism for creating ghettos
The death of Frida Kahlo
In July 1954 the great Mexican artist died after years of illness. She was just 47.
Montreal's 'Night of Terror'
When the city's police force went on strike there was looting and rioting in the streets.
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread
How Dr John Snow found out the cholera bug was spread through contaminated water in 1854.
How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams
In 1990, South Africa banned skin-lightening creams containing hydroquinone
The lost Nazi-era art trove
How a secret collection of art missing since Nazi rule was found in Germany in 2012
Quarantined in a TB sanatorium
The life of a nine-year-old girl quarantined in a TB sanatorium for 4 years in the 1950s
The Rolling Stones drugs trial
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on trial for drugs offences in June 1967
