Witness History Episodes Available now
British troops in Northern Ireland
The British army was sent to keep the peace in 1969; it stayed for nearly four decades.
A Cold War love affair
The story of a West German woman who crossed the Iron Curtain for love.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The story of Coretta Scott King鈥檚 campaign to have her late husband honoured in the US.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The story of the famous psychology study, the Stanford Prison Experiment, of 1971
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
How a Dutch engineer invented a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution in the 1960s.
The rise of Boko Haram
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
The first silicone breast implants
How a Texas woman became the first in the world to have the popular cosmetic procedure.
Costa Concordia
The dramatic story of the cruise ship which sunk in the Mediterranean, killing 32 people.
Malick Sidib茅: Mali's superstar photographer
How a Malian photographer's pictures of Mali's swinging '60s and '70s amazed the world.
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
The secret plan to clear a huge nuclear testing site after the fall of the Soviet Union.
