Witness History Episodes Available now
Cuban Missile Crisis
Living through the Cuban Missile Crisis - in Cuba
Mullah Omar
Talking to the leader of the Taliban
Storming the Winter Palace, 1917
The Russian Revolution gets underway in St Petersburg
The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854
Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred.
Hungarian Uprising
In the autumn of 1956 Hungarians shook off Soviet power for a few days at least.
Kuwait oil fires 1991
A Texan firefighter recalls the battle in Kuwait against the world's biggest oil fire
Charlie Chaplin's film The Great Dictator
In October 1940 Charlie Chaplin released an epic film mocking Adolf Hitler
Wall Street Crash of 1987
The biggest one-day crash in the history of the New York Stock Exchange
Pinochet Case
General Pinochet's surprise arrest at a London clinic in 1998
Land Speed Record
On October 15 1997, a British team set a land speed record which still hasn't been beaten.
