Witness History Episodes Available now

Holy Cross school dispute
A violent sectarian dispute took place outside a school in Northern Ireland in 2001

The Gulabi Gang
Sampat Devi started a women's rights group in India which now has a national following.

How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing
A survivor of the 2006 suicide bombing attack shares their experience.

Saving Gabon's rainforest
How a network of national parks was set up to protect Gabon's forests in 2002

The Diary of Anne Frank
One of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust was published in June 1947

The assassination of Bobby Kennedy
The killing of the US presidential candidate remembered by a friend who was also shot

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Two Maids of Honour at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II recall their memories

Sarin attack in Syria
How UN inspectors investigated a devastating chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in 2013

Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world
A Syrian family living in Za'atari Refugee Camp for nine years share their experiences.

Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells
How a pioneering African-American journalist campaigned against lynching in the US