1574 Episodes

  1. Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film

    Published: 11/24/2025

  2. How the Bosnian war ended

    Published: 11/21/2025

  3. The Spanish king reclaims his throne

    Published: 11/20/2025

  4. The death of Franco

    Published: 11/19/2025

  5. Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015

    Published: 11/18/2025

  6. Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit

    Published: 11/17/2025

  7. When Maldives' ministers met underwater

    Published: 11/14/2025

  8. Bataclan attack in Paris

    Published: 11/13/2025

  9. Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials

    Published: 11/12/2025

  10. Birth of the G7

    Published: 11/11/2025

  11. Breaking the sound barrier

    Published: 11/10/2025

  12. Discovering the largest dinosaur ever

    Published: 11/7/2025

  13. The ‘father of e-books’

    Published: 11/6/2025

  14. The creation of Miffy

    Published: 11/5/2025

  15. President Clinton is impeached

    Published: 11/4/2025

  16. The brains behind Thunderbirds

    Published: 11/3/2025

  17. Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer

    Published: 10/31/2025

  18. Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds

    Published: 10/30/2025

  19. Srebrenica massacre

    Published: 10/29/2025

  20. The invention of the balloon-expandable stent

    Published: 10/28/2025

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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.