Witness History Episodes Available now
Chaim Soutine
It is 120 years since the birth of the great Expressionist painter.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The US government's experiment on a group of African-American men without their knowledge
Baby Fae and the baboon's heart
In 1984 doctors tried to save a baby girl's life by giving her a heart transplant.
The Boxing Day tsunami and Aceh
When the earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 hit Indonesia, over 130,000 people died.
Festival in the Desert
In 2001 a festival held in the Sahara desert launched Tuareg music on the world scene
Tito on Vis
In 1944 the Yugoslav partisan leader found sanctuary on a tiny island in the Adriatic.
Johnny Cash plays Folsom Prison
It is 45 years since the Country and Western star played his first gig in a jail.
Operation No Living Thing
In January 1999, a combined rebel force invaded the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.
Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War.
An Iraqi doctor remembers serving in one of the longest wars of the 20th Century.
Donald Campbell's Fatal Crash
In January 1967 the record-breaking driver was killed at the helm of his jetboat Bluebird
