Witness History Episodes Available now

The demise of the Soviet Union
How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.

The Death of King George VI
How Britain marked the death of its wartime monarch and the accession of Queen Elizabeth

The first Emirati female teacher
The trailblazing story of the first Emirati born teacher

The day the world looked up
In 2012 a rare astronomical event occurred when Venus flew past the Sun

The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
The reporter who was killed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan while investigating 9/11.

Kazakhstan's new capital
The story of Kazakhstan's new capital

The Good Friday Agreement
The frantic last-minute negotiations that led to a peace deal for Northern Ireland.

IRA gun-running in America
How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running operation in New York in 1981

The Grand Hotel Bombing
The IRA tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in October 1984.

Bloody Sunday
How British paratroopers opened fired on a civil rights march in Northern Ireland in 1972