Witness History Episodes Available now
The warnings before 9/11
Throughout 2001 the US authorities were given warnings that a terror attack was imminent
The daily disposable contact lens
How the contact lens became cheap enough to throw away after a day
The division of Kashmir
The October 1947 crisis which led to the partition of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
The Yangtze Incident
How a British warship escaped from Chinese Communists on the Yangtze river in 1949
British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland
In August 1969 the British Army was deployed on the streets of Londonderry
Criminals in the community
How Britain pioneered Community Service as an alternative to prison in the 1970s
Under the North Pole
In 1958 the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travelled under the North Pole.
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
How thousands of French families fled from Algeria as it won independence
The invasion of Kuwait
Thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks began pouring into Kuwait on 2 August 1990
The Warsaw uprising
On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces
