Witness History Episodes Available now

The Siege of Yarmouk
How the Syrian army turned one neighbourhood near Damascus into a bombed-out wasteland

Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
Between 2002 and 2005, Naghmeh Panahi set up a network of 'house churches' in Iran

German naturists
The naturist movement began in Germany at the end of the 19th Century

Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
In 2013, the gender of a six-year-old from Argentina was legally changed

India's capsule coal mine rescue
In November 1989, 65 miners were rescued from the Mahabir Coal Mine, in India

How Greece got rid of their king
In a 1974 referendum, the Greek people voted two to one in favour of becoming a republic

The Pakistan mountain massacre
In 2013, 11 people were killed by members of a militant group at Nanga Parbat base camp

The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer
In 1948, the first stored-program computer the ‘Baby’ was invented

The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2

The Shah of Iran's party
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian Empire