Witness History Episodes Available now
DES Daughters
A medical scandal which affected millions of women around the world
General Robert E Lee: US Civil War rebel
Lee was charged with treason, so why did Congress reinstate his citizenship in 1975?
Drugs in the Vietnam War
How a heroin epidemic among US troops in Vietnam caused panic in the military
The Burma uprising of 1988
People took to the streets of Burma, or Myanmar, to protest against military rule in 1988
The Moscow State Circus
The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.
The first Eurostar from England to France
The driver of the first train to take passengers from London to Paris remembers
The anthem of the Arab Spring
How a singer in Tunisia helped inspire young protestors all over the Middle East in 2011
Libya's Arab uprising
In 2011 protests soon turned into an armed revolt seeking to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.
Yemen's 2011 uprising
Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt young Yemenis took to the streets in January 2011
Syria in the Arab Spring
The moment that hundreds of thousands of Syrians demanded change in 2011.
