1. A forensic video search User Interface (UI) for a facility having video camera surveillance, the method comprising: generating a display partitioned into “where”, “when”, “who” and “what” panels; in the “when” panel, selecting a calendar date, bringing into view a timeline; in the “where” panel, if the facility has more than one floor, selecting a floor of the facility, bringing into view a floor plan of the selected facility floor wherein the facility floor plan includes one or more camera icons showing a Field Of View (FOV) representing actual video camera surveillance locations on the selected facility floor; based on the selected date, timeline and facility floor, generating a time-based query to discover events and objects involving human and non-human objects that occurred comprising: populating the “what” panel with textual descriptions of events that occurred wherein an event includes one or more objects, location, time of occurrence and type of event; populating the “who” panel with one or more object thumbnails wherein an object thumbnail represents a previously recorded video segment of an object associated with an event displayed in the “what” panel; and populating the “where” panel with a marker in one or more camera icon's FOV wherein a camera icon FOV marker represents an object thumbnail in the “who” panel.