Witness History Episodes Available now
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
How the Russian president quit and apologised to the nation in a New Year's Eve address.
Putin's war in Chechnya
An eyewitness account of the Russian invasion of the breakaway republic in 1999
Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
Chaos and hardship hit Russia when free-market reforms were introduced overnight in 1992
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
A personal account of how Russia took over the Crimean peninsula in 2014
The death of Trayvon Martin
The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
The Native American soldiers who talked in a secret code, helping the Allies to victory
Nixon in China
The historic visit by the American president which normalised US relations with China.
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.
