1472 Episoder

  1. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

    Udgivet: 28.9.2021
  2. The rise of the Taliban

    Udgivet: 27.9.2021
  3. Kenya: Westgate Mall attack

    Udgivet: 24.9.2021
  4. James Bond on screen

    Udgivet: 23.9.2021
  5. The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

    Udgivet: 22.9.2021
  6. Mexico's miracle water

    Udgivet: 21.9.2021
  7. Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis

    Udgivet: 20.9.2021
  8. The Peter Principle

    Udgivet: 17.9.2021
  9. Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune

    Udgivet: 16.9.2021
  10. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    Udgivet: 15.9.2021
  11. The lost king of France

    Udgivet: 14.9.2021
  12. The Attica prison rebellion

    Udgivet: 13.9.2021
  13. 9/11: The backlash against American Muslims

    Udgivet: 10.9.2021
  14. America attacks Afghanistan

    Udgivet: 9.9.2021
  15. With the president on 9/11

    Udgivet: 8.9.2021
  16. The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud

    Udgivet: 7.9.2021
  17. The warnings before 9/11

    Udgivet: 6.9.2021
  18. North Korea's founding father

    Udgivet: 3.9.2021
  19. The businessman who defied the Mafia

    Udgivet: 2.9.2021
  20. Surviving the fall of Saigon

    Udgivet: 1.9.2021

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Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there. For nine minutes every day, we take you back in time and all over the world, to examine wars, coups, scientific discoveries, cultural moments and much more. Recent episodes explore everything from the death of Adolf Hitler, the first spacewalk and the making of the movie Jaws, to celebrity tortoise Lonesome George, the Kobe earthquake and the invention of superglue. We look at the lives of some of the most famous leaders, artists, scientists and personalities in history, including: Eva Peron – Argentina’s Evita; President Ronald Reagan and his famous ‘tear down this wall’ speech; Thomas Keneally on why he wrote Schindler’s List; and Jacques Derrida, France’s ‘rock star’ philosopher. You can learn all about fascinating and surprising stories, such as the civil rights swimming protest; the disastrous D-Day rehearsal ; and the death of one of the world’s oldest languages.

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