The story of our times told by the people who were there.
It is exactly 15 years since the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.
What was it like to vote in Burma's last general election in 1990?
In November 1956 Britain and France invaded Egypt - to regain control of the Suez canal
It is 15 years since the play Blasted first shocked theatregoers
As President Obama visits Indonesia, Witness takes you back to his childhood there
On 11 November, 1918 the guns of World War I fell silent
It is 50 years since the first black child attended a white elementary school in Louisiana
It is 70 years since the German bombing of Coventry destroyed much of the UK city.
Why did she follow her father into politics?
The story of the Greek military junta's brutal suppression of a student protest in 1973
A piracy trial makes history in 19th century America
It is 15 years since Princess Diana spoke openly about the breakdown of her marriage
The most famous reported encounter with aliens of our time
The story of the bloody suppression of an uprising by Taliban prisoners in an Afghan jail
Japanese writer, Yukio Mishima's dramatic decision to end his life.
The last days of Freddie Mercury battle with Aids
How the great Inca empire was brought to its knees - almost 500 years ago.
In late November 1922 the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun, was uncovered
The moment of breakthrough for the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France
On December 2nd 1980 the military in El Salvador killed 3 US nuns, and a layworker.
In December 1938 the Kindertransports began, carrying Jewish children to safety in Britain
In December 1992 US Marines stormed the beaches of Somalia.
The Japanese attack on American ships in Pearl Harbour forced the US into World War II.
It is exactly 30 years since the former Beatle, John Lennon, was shot dead in New York.
