Witness History Episodes Available now
Turkey's Headscarf Row
In 1999 a Turkish woman MP appeared in parliament wearing a headscarf. It caused uproar.
Death in the Amazon
Auca tribesmen killed five American missionaries in the jungle in January 1956.
Albania's Economic Chaos
How the collapse of 'pyramid' investment schemes caused riots in Albania in 1977
Charter 77
In January 1977 an opposition movement began in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia.
Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels
A Vietnamese war veteran on life in the Viet Cong's tunnel network in South Vietnam
America's First Communists
Husband and wife Bert and Ella Wolfe faced persecution in the movement's early years
Russia's 'Dog Man'
How conceptual artist Oleg Kulik posed as a dog, attacking passers-by in Moscow.
The Launch of Vogue Russia
Aliona Doletskaya remembers starting post Soviet-Russia's biggest glossy fashion magazine
The Nuclear Legacy
The story of how the world was made safe from the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy
Georgia In Crisis
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Georgia found itself on the verge of civil war.
