Witness History Episodes Available now
South African Student Sit-in Against Apartheid Injustice
White students in apartheid South Africa stage a sit-in protest against racial injustice.
Dr Spock: Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care, the book that revolutionised child care.
Stealing the Mona Lisa
The theft of the Mona Lisa from the museum of the Louvre in Paris in August 1911
The UN Baghdad bomb
The bomb that destroyed the UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003.
The Moscow Coup
The failed attempt to overthrow the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachov in August 1991
The Hungarian Picnic
The picnic that led to the first breaches of the Iron Curtain in 1989
The Great Depression
During the 1930s the people of the US faced widespread economic hardship
The Goons
It is 60 years since The Goon Show first hit the airwaves
The Building of the Berlin Wall
On 13 August 1961, East German soldiers and construction workers began the Berlin Wall
Napster
It is 10 years since the closure of the world's first music-sharing website - Napster
