Witness History Episodes Available now
The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud
Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed a key Afghan leader in a suicide bombing.
The warnings before 9/11
Throughout 2001 the US administration was being given warnings a terror attack was coming
North Korea's founding father
How Kim Il-sung came to power in communist North Korea
The businessman who defied the Mafia
How an anti-Mafia businessman paid the ultimate price for standing up to organised crime
Surviving the fall of Saigon
When South Vietnam fell in 1975, most could not escape.
The first modern electric car
The first mass-produced modern electric car was launched by GM in 1996
The strike that changed Poland
Shipyard workers in Gdańsk changed communism in Poland when they went on strike in 1980
Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'
A campaign to make life in Nigeria more orderly in the 1980s
Syria's rebel poet
Nizar Qabbani is one of the Arab world’s most famous poets but his legacy is contested
Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities
Activist Maryangel Garcia-Ramos on the struggle faced by Mexico's disabled women
