Witness History Episodes Available now
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws
When MPs tried to toughen the laws against homosexuality, LGBT activists took a stand.
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
The Chicxulub impact crater was discovered in 1978.
Walking the Great Wall of China
Three friends set off on an epic trek along the Great Wall of China in May 1984
Hitler's stolen children
During WW2 the Nazis abducted blonde blue-eyed children to build an Aryan master race
China's One Child policy
The Chinese Communist Party started ruthlessly enforcing birth control in the early 1980s
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
How the army finally crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of bloody civil war
Predicting the financial crash
The economists who predicted the 2008 financial crash but whose warnings were ignored
The Karakoram highway
The road between Pakistan and China took 20 years to complete
Strictly Come Dancing
One of the most successful TV formats in the world started back in May 2004
The war on drugs
The first 'war on drugs' was launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971.
