Witness History Episodes Available now
The death of Hitler
On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.
The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke
In 1968 German students called for a revolution when their leader Rudi Dutschke was shot
The Ballerina and the Coup
In April 1959 Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot against Panama's government.
Muhammad Ali and the Draft
How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals
The Hitler Diaries Hoax
Thirty years ago newspapers spent millions on what they thought were Hitler's diaries
Pau Casals
The acclaimed musician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance to General Franco
Haile Selassie in Jamaica
Ethiopia's emperor visited Jamaica - the birthplace of the Rastafarian movement - in 1966
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Jewish fighters in the Polish capital rose up against the German army in 1943
The Khmer Rouge take power
In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia.
The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill
In January 1965 Britain held a state funeral for the man who led it through World War Two.
