Witness History Episodes Available now
The Buenos Aires Herald
The English-language newspaper was credited with standing up to Argentina's dictatorship.
Nike and the Sweatshop Problem
In the 1990s Nike got a bad name after being linked to sweatshops in Asia.
Germany's Nudists
How East Germans went naked on the beaches despite official communist party disapproval.
Reagan's Bombing Joke
"We begin bombing in five minutes" said the US President in 1984. But he was only joking
Florence Nightingale
The "lady with the lamp" died on August 13th 1910.
The Calcutta Killings of 1946
Exactly a year before Indian independence there were deadly riots in the city of Calcutta
The Murder of Naji al-Ali
The acclaimed Palestinian cartoonist was gunned down in London in 1987
Discovering The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Charles Moore recalls how he came across the world's largest floating rubbish dump.
The Camp David Summit
In 2000 the US led a major effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
China's Crackdown on Falun Gong
In July 1999, the Chinese government banned the spiritual movement Falun Gong
