Witness History Episodes Available now
Colombia mudslide
It's 27 years since over 20,000 people died when a volcano erupted in western Colombia.
Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant
In 1984 doctors in California tried a revolutionary operation on a two-week-old baby girl.
Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour
The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler.
Mutiny on the Bounty
The original story of betrayal at sea - from contemporary eyewitness testimonies.
John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me
Over 50 years ago a white journalist tried living as a black man in America's Deep South.
The death of Leonid Brezhnev
One of the longest-serving leaders of the Soviet Union died on the 10 of November 1982.
The Crate Escape
An incredible plot to kidnap, drug and repatriate Nigerian exile Umaru Dikko in 80s London
Lebensborn Babies
In the 1930s the Nazi party hatched a secret plan to breed an elite Aryan race.
Vietnam Photographer
The great British war photographer Don McCullin remembers the Vietnam war.
Garbage, the City and Death by Fassbinder
In 1985 a Frankfurt theatre attempted to stage a play by the controversial German writer.
