Witness History Episodes Available now
The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war
How the army finally crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of bloody civil war
Predicting the financial crash
The economists who predicted the 2008 financial crash but whose warnings were ignored
The Karakoram highway
The road between Pakistan and China took 20 years to complete
Strictly Come Dancing
One of the most successful TV formats in the world started back in May 2004
The war on drugs
The first 'war on drugs' was launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971.
The Bauhaus
The groundbreaking school of art and design was founded in 1919
The siege of Dien Bien Phu
The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam
Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba
The Chinese billionaire set up his online shopping site in 1999
The Malayan Emergency
The struggle against a Communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s
The sinking of the Belgrano
The Argentine ship was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands war
