Witness History Episodes Available now
Teheran's Freedom Tower
The vast monument built for the Shah, but now a centrepiece for protests in Iran.
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.
The Wages for Housework campaign
How feminists in Italy began an international campaign for payment for housework in 1972.
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
The Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003: Dr Shirin Ebadi
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.
Gloria Steinem and Ms Magazine
The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women
Anna Akhmatova - Voice of Russia
How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history.
Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
First-hand accounts of Russia's battle with another former Soviet republic in 2008.
The takeover of NTV in Russia
How NTV journalists tried in vain to keep their station out of President Putin's control.
