Witness History Episodes Available now

The Situation Room photograph
The story behind the Situation Room photograph during the raid to kill Bin Laden in 2011

Ice Bucket Challenge
The ice bucket challenge became a worldwide phenomenon in 2014

The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
The students who challenged the discrimination of Australia's indigenous people

Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
In 1998, it became illegal to make bears dance in Bulgaria

Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
How Yazidis in Iraq fled to Mount Sinjar to escape genocide in August 2014

The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
How punk rock band Die Toten Hosen secretly played a concert in East Berlin.

The first cold chain vaccination storage system
In 1974, Ghana pioneered a new system, to help immunise against serious diseases

Building the Moscow Metro
How the Moscow Metro was built using more than 10,000 Russian workers.

Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
Somali sprinter Zamzam Farah at the London 2012 Olympics

The first Olympic ‘mascot’
The creation of Shuss for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France