Witness History Episodes Available now
The world’s largest model train set
In 2000, twins Frederik and Gerrit started building Miniatur Wunderland
Dolly Rathebe: South Africa’s first international film star
Jim Comes to Jo’burg, also known as African Jim, launched Dolly Rathebe’s career in 1949
The Battle of the Beanfield
In 1985, police and hippies clashed at the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in England
The legacy of The Pirate Bay
In 2006 police raided the popular but controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay
Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary book Things Fall Apart
Achebe's English language novel from 1958 about life in Nigeria before colonialism
The Tragically Hip's final gig
In 2015 Canadian rockstar Gord Downie was given months to live, he went on one last tour
'I wrote the Champions League anthem'
The story of how one of the most iconic tunes in sport was created in 1992
Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer
The secret street photography of a US nanny in the 1950s and 1960s
The founding of Magnum Photos
On 22 April 1947, a group of famous war photographers founded the agency.
Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer
Chambi's dramatic black and white photographs showed indigenous people in a new light.
