Witness History Episodes Available now
The first sex worker strike
When 200 French sex workers took refuge in a church in Lyon, it started a movement.
The world's first civil union
In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
"Fire" was one of the first films in Indian history to depict a lesbian relationship.
The Berlin Patient
Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret.
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
In 1972 Burundi鈥檚 Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
How the Spaniard became a legend in the world of ultra-fashionable shoes.
The invention of Google Maps
How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.
