Witness History Episodes Available now
Escape from Alcatraz
In June 1962 three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail.
The Mau Mau Rebellion
Britain's disturbing abuses against the Mau Mau in colonial Kenya
Robert Kennedy's Funeral Train
How huge crowds of Americans mourned Bobby Kennedy after his 1968 assassination.
Stalin's Gulag
Millions of people were sent to brutal labour camps in the USSR under Joseph Stalin
The Oklahoma Bomber
Twelve years ago, Timothy McVeigh was executed for carrying out the 1995 Oklahoma bombing
Bristol Bus Boycott
How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK's first anti-racism laws
The Nepali Royal Massacre
Twelve years ago, the Crown Prince of Nepal massacred his family at the royal palace
The Queen's Coronation
Two Maids of Honour remember the crowning of Queen Elizabeth the Second in London in 1953.
The New Deal
Eighty years ago, Franklin D Roosevelt promised to rescue the US from the Great Depression
The Ascent of Everest
How Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing conquered the world's highest mountain in 1953.
