Witness History Episodes Available now
The Saudi bombardment of Yemen
In March 2015 Saudi Arabia and its allies began an intense aerial bombardment of Yemen
Sequencing the 1918 influenza virus
Over 50 million people are thought to have died from influenza around the world in 1918
Hong Kong's abandoned children
The Chinese babies left on the streets of 1960s Hong Kong in the hope they'd be adopted.
The Chinese cure for malaria
How scientists in the 1970s discovered an anti-malarial drug using a traditional remedy.
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
How NASA put an orbiting observatory into space in 1990.
Red Hollywood
Former actress Marsha Hunt remembers the anti-Communist witch-hunt of the late 1940s.
The fight to make sexual harassment a crime
The story of a landmark ruling for women's rights in the United States.
The 'I Love You' computer virus
How a virus created by a Filipino college dropout sparked global panic in May 2000
Marburg virus
A deadly new disease infected laboratory workers in a small town in West Germany in 1967.
The SARS epidemic
How the world battled a deadly respiratory disease in 2003.
