Witness History Episodes Available now
Skiing in the Swat Valley
One man's mission to bring fun back to the battle-scarred Swat Valley in Pakistan.
The death of Joseph Stalin
60 years ago the Soviet dictator died and the whole of the USSR was plunged into mourning.
Armenia and Azerbaijan
It is 25 years since violence broke out in the city of Sumgait in Azerbaijan.
The Cultural Revolution in China
In the mid 1960s the young people of China were encouraged to turn on their elders.
The Bethnal Green tube disaster
It is 70 years since 173 people were crushed to death at an air-raid shelter in London
Choosing a Pope
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor tells the story of electing Pope Benedict in April 2005
The standoff at Wounded Knee
Forty years ago, American Indian activists staged a protest against the US authorities.
The first World Trade Center attack
How Islamic extremists tried to blow up the Twin Towers eight years before 9/11.
The Theft of the Scream
In 1994 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was stolen from a Norwegian art museum.
Dutch school hostage crisis
In 1977 independence activists from Indonesia's Molucca islands took a school hostage.
