Witness History Episodes Available now
The death of Heinrich Himmler
The leading Nazi was caught by British troops shortly after WW2 had ended in Europe
Benidorm and the birth of package tourism
The story of the mayor who created one of the world's biggest holiday resorts.
Adrift for 76 days
A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean
Australia's 'Black Saturday' bushfires
How 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across Victoria, Australia in 2009.
The writer who put Latinos centre stage
Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida
The fastest vaccine ever developed
How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine
The first safe house for Afghan women
Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan
The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests
When logging threatened the rainforests of Sarawak, local communities fought back
The Million Man March
On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington DC
The man who tried to kill Hitler
On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk