Witness History Episodes Available now
Amnesty at 50
It is half a century since the launch of the human rights group Amnesty International
Mariel Boatlift from Cuba
Mass exodus: how 125,000 Cubans left the island from Mariel harbour in 1980
Chanel No. 5
In 1921 the most famous perfume ever, was launched in France
Manchester United 1968
In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup
The Irish Contraceptive Train
A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them
Leopold and Loeb
In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago
Crimean Tatars
In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army
The Irish pirate Queen
Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I
The fall of Berlin
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
Easter Rising in Ireland
Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.
