Witness History Episodes Available now
The Downfall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide
In February 2004 the president of Haiti was forced out of power by a countrywide uprising
The Khrushchev Thaw
In the 1950s Soviet citizens were allowed to buy tape recorders for the first time.
Stalin's 1944 Deportations
How nearly half a million Chechen and Ingush people were deported from the North Caucasus
The Exile of Solzhenitsyn
In February 1974, Russia's most famous dissident writer was sent into exile in the West.
Protests for the Mother Tongue
In February 1952 thousands marched in Dhaka in defence of the Bengali language
The Fall of Albania's Enver Hoxha
In February 1991 protesters pulled down the giant statue of Albania's communist dictator.
The Death of Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping's translator, Victor Gao remembers the architect of China's transformation
The True Story of "Whisky Galore"
In February 1941, a ship carrying nearly 30,000 cases of whisky was wrecked in Scotland.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
The rise and fall of a New York graffiti artist
Women and the Iranian Revolution
In February 1979, Iran was undergoing a revolution which would lead to an Islamic state.
