Witness History Episodes Available now
India's affirmative action controversy
Why guaranteeing government jobs to lower caste Hindus led to weeks of student protests.
The TV series Friends
One of the most successful TV comedy shows of all time hit US screens in September 1994
The coup, the president and the embassy
How the deposed Honduran president spent months holed up in the Brazilian embassy
The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia
In 1991 Libero Grassi was killed in Sicily for publicly refusing to pay protection money.
The Holocaust denial trial
The libel case that put history itself in the dock in 2000
Inside lunar astronaut quarantine
Apollo 11's doctor tells how NASA tried to protect Earth from possible lunar alien life
The first all-women peacekeeping unit
The UN deployed its first all-female peacekeepers in Liberia in 2007.
The outbreak of World War Two
On September 1st 1939 German troops invaded Poland. Cameraman Douglas Slocombe was there.
The paedophile identified by his hands
The first conviction of a paedophile using hand analysis.
Nina Simone moves to Liberia
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
