Witness History Episodes Available now
The Life and Death of Agatha Christie
The best-selling novelist in history, crime-writer Agatha Christie, died in January 1976
The Hong Kong Riots of 1967
Striking workers and students filled the streets calling for an end to British rule.
The Nuremberg Trials
The story of the only surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes
In the 1990s Saddam Hussein oversaw the destruction of southern Iraq's ancient marshes
The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya
In October 2006, the campaigning Russian journalist was shot outside her Moscow flat.
The Soweto Uprising
In 1976, schoolchildren marched in protest at the apartheid regime in South Africa.
Voting Against the War on Terror
Only one person voted against giving the US president extra powers after 9/11: Barbara Lee
The Death of Che Guevara
In October 1967, the Marxist revolutionary was captured and killed in Bolivia.
Leipzig - Before the Wall Came Down
Massive demonstrations in the East German city heralded the fall of the Berlin Wall.
How the IPCC was formed
An international conference in 1985 changed the history of climate change
