Witness History Episodes Available now
The world's first offshore wind farm
The world's first offshore wind farm was built off the coast of Denmark in 1991
The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime
A play staged in Damascus undermined official propaganda after the 1967 Six Day War
Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings
Around 60 children said they saw 'aliens' near their school playground in September 1994
The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret
China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'
Thousands of gay men and lesbians in China hold fake marriages to avoid family pressure
The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'
How the sexually explicit journals of a 19th-century English lesbian came to light
Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire
In 1992, a group of LGBT Ivoirians stormed the office of a national newspaper
The Stonewall Inn
How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.
China's 'Economic Miracle'
Massive economic growth has been possible because of migrant labour, but at what cost?
The Trabant
The iconic East German car that dominated the roads of communist Central Europe
