Witness History Episodes Available now
My dad played golf on the moon
In 1971 Alan Shepard played golf on the moon
The Empire Windrush arrives
On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England
Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
On 7 August 1994, police raided Tasty, a gay nightclub in downtown Melbourne, Australia
The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Somali fighter pilot Ahmed Mohamed Hassan faced a terrible choice in 1988
Uprising in East Germany
On 16 June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule
Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.
Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
In 1968, British photographer travelled to Vietnam for his second ever war assignment
Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
Malick Sidibé photographed life in Mali after its independence from France in 1960.
A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo
In 1958, aspiring photographer Art Kane captured 57 jazz legends in one immortal image
Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath
