Witness History Episodes Available now
The Bobbitt Story
On 23 June 1993 a young wife cut off her husband's penis in a frenzied attack
Space Crash
Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it
Jackass Penguin Rescue
An oil spill in June 2000 threatened tens of thousands of African penguins.
Black in the USSR
Robert Robinson, a black American engineer, spent 43 years in the USSR against his will.
The Fall of Paris
In June 1940, most of the residents of Paris fled as German soldiers occupied the city
Smoking and Lung Cancer
It was not until the 1950s that the link was proven between cigarettes and lung cancer
The Eruption of Mount Pinatubo
In 1991 one of the largest volcanic eruptions of recent times occurred in the Philippines
Moral Majority
In June 1979 the Moral Majority was launched and changed the course of American politics
When TV Came to Bhutan
In June 1999 the tiny Himalayan kingdom broadcast its first TV programme
The Battle for Mixed Race Marriage in the US
How a white man and a black woman won the right to marry in America in the 1960s
