1472 Episodes

  1. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

    Published: 9/28/2021

  2. The rise of the Taliban

    Published: 9/27/2021

  3. Kenya: Westgate Mall attack

    Published: 9/24/2021

  4. James Bond on screen

    Published: 9/23/2021

  5. The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

    Published: 9/22/2021

  6. Mexico's miracle water

    Published: 9/21/2021

  7. Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis

    Published: 9/20/2021

  8. The Peter Principle

    Published: 9/17/2021

  9. Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune

    Published: 9/16/2021

  10. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    Published: 9/15/2021

  11. The lost king of France

    Published: 9/14/2021

  12. The Attica prison rebellion

    Published: 9/13/2021

  13. 9/11: The backlash against American Muslims

    Published: 9/10/2021

  14. America attacks Afghanistan

    Published: 9/9/2021

  15. With the president on 9/11

    Published: 9/8/2021

  16. The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud

    Published: 9/7/2021

  17. The warnings before 9/11

    Published: 9/6/2021

  18. North Korea's founding father

    Published: 9/3/2021

  19. The businessman who defied the Mafia

    Published: 9/2/2021

  20. Surviving the fall of Saigon

    Published: 9/1/2021

49 / 74

Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.