Witness History Episodes Available now
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.
The White Rose
Seventy years ago, three German students were executed for protesting against Hitler.
Welsh Dam Attack
In 1963 Welsh nationalists took up arms against the construction of a controversial dam
People Power in the Philippines
How four days of huge protests brought down Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
