Witness History Episodes Available now
The Ballerina and the Coup
In 1959, Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot to overthrow the Panama government
Brazil Protests: Caras Pintadas
In 1992, a huge wave of protests forced President Collor of Brazil from office.
Legionnaires' Disease
In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia
The Assassination of Benigno Aquino
On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines
Prague Spring
The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia
Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'
The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War
The Nepali Royal Massacre
In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.
Stanley Kubrick
Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director
The Omagh Bombing
In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
The Battle of the Potato Beetle
In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.
