Witness History Episodes Available now
Saddam Hussein's 'Supergun'
Building the largest gun in the world for Saddam Hussein's Iraq
Fighting oil pollution with art in Nigeria
"Battle Bus" was a sculpture in memory of Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro Wiwa
How meditation changes your brain
In 2002, a landmark study on Buddhist monks showed that meditation can alter the brain.
The Pale Blue Dot
How the Voyager space probe captured a famous image of Earth as it left the Solar System.
The Rules: A dating handbook
The best-selling dating handbook was published on Valentine's Day 1995
The best-seller Fear of Flying
Erica Jong's best-selling book about sex, creativity and love, published in 1973
Diary of life in a favela
A shocking account of the realities of the slums of São Paulo
The man who first published Harry Potter
The man who spotted the potential of the boy wizard books in 1996
Chairman Mao's Little Red Book
The collected thoughts of China's communist leader that became an unexpected best-seller
The release of Nelson Mandela
The day that South Africa's anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was freed
