Witness History Episodes Available now
How Tinder changed the dating game
How the dating app with the swipe revolutionised the world of online romance
Greece's Great Famine
How hundreds of thousands of Greeks starved to death under Nazi occupation.
The largest war crimes trial in history
The former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague in 2002.
Nato intervenes in Kosovo
How the US and its allies backed air strikes against Serbian forces to stop atrocities.
The Great American Grain Robbery
How a catastrophic trade deal between the US and Moscow sparked a global food price shock
The handshake in Space
How Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met up in space during the Cold War
The Soviet Union's Afghan War
How what Moscow planned as a short military operation turned into the Soviet "Vietnam".
The Falklands War - an Argentine account
An Argentine conscript remembers his country's doomed military campaign in 1982.
The Falklands War - An islander's account
A local radio broadcaster remembers keeping calm as Argentine troops invaded his studio.
Escaping a Maoist cult
Aravindan Balakrishnan ran a cult in London for 30 years; then two of its members fled.
