Witness History

Japan surrenders in Beijing

Japan surrenders in Beijing

The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away

'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'

The home video war

The acquittal of OJ Simpson

'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'

The strike that shook up India's tea industry

The birth of the Excel spreadsheet

The Cradock Four killings

Guinea stadium massacre

The secretary who made millions from her typos

DDLJ: India’s longest-running film

The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières

The start of Scouting

Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia

The Aswan High Dam

Egypt criminalises sexual harassment

Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws

Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president

How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two

9/11: The generosity of Gander

The story behind The Peter Principle book

The Enabling Act

Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture

‘How I sold my clothes and created $5 billion Vinted empire'

World's first womb transplant baby

The Chindits

The founding of USAID

Discovering the Titanic

John Lennon's final headline concerts

The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic

Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot

Creating CAPTCHA

The creation of the International Criminal Court

Geneva Conventions

The rise and fall of BlackBerry

The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants

One man’s escape from McCarthyism

Spot the Dog

Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia

Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys

Discovery of the 'Hobbit'

Borobudur Temple

The Santa Cruz Massacre

1965 Singaporean independence

Brazil’s biggest bank heist

The Assam-Tibet earthquake

When Stalin silenced Shostakovich

Nagasaki bomb

Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle