Witness History Episodes Available now
Crossing the Rubicon
Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar made a decision which changed European history.
Charter 77
Taking you back 35 years when an opposition movement began in Czechoslovakia.
Project Stormfury
Fifty years ago the USA launched an ambitious attempt to control the weather.
The Hollywood blacklist
A list of radicals in the US entertainment industry was published more than 60 years ago.
The capture of the USS Pueblo
In January 1968 an American spy ship was captured by North Korean forces.
Birth of the Euro
How millions of Europeans celebrated the launch of the euro in 2002.
US troops in Iraq
All US troops have now left Iraq. We take you back to when they first invaded in 2003.
The Creation of Tetris
One of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow in 1984
Enid Blyton and the BBC
The difficult relationship between the BBC and the children's writer, Enid Blyton.
The release of Sakharov
In December 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow.
