Witness History Episodes Available now
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant
Apartheid in the 1950s
The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place
People Power in the Philippines
How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.
Algeria emergency
How Algeria's experiement with democracy ended in civil war and a state of emergency.
The Lindbergh kidnapping
On 1 March 1932, the baby son of one of the most famous men in America went missing
Dolly the Sheep
What was the first cloned mammal like and why did she die young?
The death of Captain Cook
In February 1779 the British seafarer Captain Cook was beaten to death in Hawaii
Fall of Singapore
The British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces on this day in 1942
Assassination of Rafik Hariri
On February 14 2005, Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri was assassinated
The death of Pushkin
In February 1837 the great Russian poet - Alexander Pushkin died
