Witness History Episodes Available now
The world's first civil union
In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
"Fire" was one of the first films in Indian history to depict a lesbian relationship.
The Berlin Patient
Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret.
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
In 1972 Burundi’s Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
How the Spaniard became a legend in the world of ultra-fashionable shoes.
The invention of Google Maps
How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.
The demise of the Soviet Union
How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.
