Witness History Episodes Available now
Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'
The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War
The Nepali Royal Massacre
In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.
Stanley Kubrick
Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director
The Omagh Bombing
In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
The Battle of the Potato Beetle
In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.
Scientists Flee Nazi Germany
How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany
Conflict in Congo
The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira
The Opening of Euro Disney
Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.
Bombing of Nagasaki
Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945
Burma's 1988 Protests
In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence
