Witness History Episodes Available now
A Pakistani View of the Bangladesh War of Independence
The story of a Pakistani soldier caught up in the Bangladesh liberation war.
The 1960 Coup Against Haile Selassie
How Ethiopia's Emperor was almost overthrown in a bloody coup
The Velvet Underground
The seminal alternative rock band play their first gig at a high school in New Jersey.
The KKK and the Killing of Viola Liuzzo
In 1965, three KKK members were convicted of conspiring to kill a civil rights activist
The Battle of Tora Bora
After the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan in 2001 the hunt for Osama bin Laden began.
WW1: The Siege of Kut, Iraq
Thousands of British and Indian troops spent five months trapped in Kut, Iraq in WW1
Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike
In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised to support striking coal-miners.
Cuban Fighters in Angola
Thousands of Cuban troops fought with Angola's Marxist government forces in the civil war
The First Heart Transplant
On 3 December 1967, two brothers carried out the first heart transplant operation
Surviving Pearl Harbor
How one US Navy mechanic made it through the surprise Japanese attack on his Pacific base
