The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1957 a nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire
In 1982 people in the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the Assad regime
She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state
Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993
How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India
One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police
Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.
It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.
How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation
Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist
How famine devastated Ukraine in the 1930s
The experiences of one German woman after Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945
Following Osama Bin Laden's death, we recall al-Qaeda's attacks in Africa in 1998
It is 60 years since the opening of the Festival of Britain
In 1954 a record was broken when a young British athlete ran a mile in under four minutes
On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.
In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison
The letters of an Italian pilot reveal how he carried out the first air raid in history
President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe
Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of King George I in London.
Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
