Witness History Episodes Available now
Shoot
In November 1971 a young American artist decided to get a friend to take a shot at him.
Cesar Chavez - Yes we can!
How the Mexican-American trade union leader Cesar Chavez inspired Latinos in the 1960s.
The Lost Tribe Hoax
The Filipino stone-age cave dwellers who fooled the scientific community.
China's one-child policy
Created to tackle China's expanding population, but how was the one-child policy enforced?
Colombia mudslide
It's 27 years since over 20,000 people died when a volcano erupted in western Colombia.
Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant
In 1984 doctors in California tried a revolutionary operation on a two-week-old baby girl.
Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour
The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler.
Mutiny on the Bounty
The original story of betrayal at sea - from contemporary eyewitness testimonies.
John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me
Over 50 years ago a white journalist tried living as a black man in America's Deep South.
The death of Leonid Brezhnev
One of the longest-serving leaders of the Soviet Union died on the 10 of November 1982.
