Meer afleveringen van Witness History

• The first carbon offset

  In 1988, as floods struck Bangladesh and a heat wave swept across the United States, climate change became a political issue. Governments and businesses alike talked about how to stop it, or at least slow it down. That year the think...

  4 aug 2026 560 sec.

• City of God: The film that reshaped global cinema

  In 2001, filming began on City of God which would stun audiences with its unflinching honesty. It captured the brutal realities of child gangsters from Rio De Janeiro’s favelas trapped in an unforgiving cycle of violence. Local...

  3 aug 2026 620 sec.

• The cellist who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau

  In 1943, the cellist, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She expected to be killed in the gas chambers but survived because she was recruited to play in an orchestra set up by the women...

  31 jul 2026 616 sec.