Witness History Episodes Available now
Inside lunar astronaut quarantine
Apollo 11's doctor tells how NASA tried to protect Earth from possible lunar alien life
The first all-women peacekeeping unit
The UN deployed its first all-female peacekeepers in Liberia in 2007.
The outbreak of World War Two
On September 1st 1939 German troops invaded Poland. Cameraman Douglas Slocombe was there.
The paedophile identified by his hands
The first conviction of a paedophile using hand analysis.
Nina Simone moves to Liberia
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis
How thousands of unaccompanied children were sent to safety by their desperate parents
Mexico's murdered women
How young women began disappearing in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez in 1993
The murder of black teenager Emmett Till
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi
The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas
How the influential Brazilian leader took his own life rather than submit to the military
The return of the wolf
Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone decades after they were wiped out in the US.
