Witness History Episodes Available now
The Sophiatown Removals
How apartheid destroyed one of the last multiracial communities in 1950s South Africa.
A Cure for Tuberculosis
Professor Denny Mitchison was a pioneer in the search for a cure for tuberculosis.
The rise of England's football hooligans
The rise of violence between English football fans in the 1970s
Zeppelins Attack England
In January 1915 huge German Zeppelin airships began the first bombing raids on England
The Life and Death of Agatha Christie
The best-selling novelist in history, crime-writer Agatha Christie, died in January 1976
The Hong Kong Riots of 1967
Striking workers and students filled the streets calling for an end to British rule.
The Nuremberg Trials
The story of the only surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes
In the 1990s Saddam Hussein oversaw the destruction of southern Iraq's ancient marshes
The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya
In October 2006, the campaigning Russian journalist was shot outside her Moscow flat.
The Soweto Uprising
In 1976, schoolchildren marched in protest at the apartheid regime in South Africa.
