Witness History Episodes Available now
Assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd
It is 45 years since the South African Prime Minister was killed in Parliament.
The Women of Greenham Common
How an anti-nuclear march turned into a peace camp based outside a US airbase in the UK
The Scoop of the Century
The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.
Libya's Coup - 1969
The coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power in Libya.
Drop City
The hippy commune in Colorado in the Summer of Love, 1967.
The Freedom Riders
The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Cameroon's Lake Nyos Disaster
How villagers awoke to find hundreds of friends and neighbours mysteriously dead
Child evacuees from the Spanish Civil War
How thousands of Basque children were evacuated to Britain during the Spanish Civil War.
Woodstock Festival 1969
A pivotal moment in American popular culture - the Woodstock festival of 1969.
South African Student Sit-in Against Apartheid Injustice
White students in apartheid South Africa stage a sit-in protest against racial injustice.
