Witness History Episodes Available now
The Children's Crusade
Thousands of black American children protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama
Australia's Aboriginal Referendum
In May 1967 campaigning began across Australia to consolidate Aboriginal rights
The death of Hitler
On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.
The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke
In 1968 German students called for a revolution when their leader Rudi Dutschke was shot
The Ballerina and the Coup
In April 1959 Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot against Panama's government.
Muhammad Ali and the Draft
How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals
The Hitler Diaries Hoax
Thirty years ago newspapers spent millions on what they thought were Hitler's diaries
Pau Casals
The acclaimed musician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance to General Franco
Haile Selassie in Jamaica
Ethiopia's emperor visited Jamaica - the birthplace of the Rastafarian movement - in 1966
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Jewish fighters in the Polish capital rose up against the German army in 1943
