Witness History Episodes Available now
When Peru mistook missionaries for drug traffickers
The Peruvian Air Force shot down a light plane carrying American missionaries in 2001
The killing of Pablo Escobar
The Colombian drug lord was shot dead by police in December 1993
The war on drugs
President Richard Nixon was the first US President to try to wipe out illegal drug use
The Tulsa Race Massacre
In 1921, a white mob destroyed an affluent African-American neighbourhood.
Rock concert for Chernobyl
The first charity rock concert ever held in the USSR raised money for Chernobyl survivors
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
Amilcar Cabral led the armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in West Africa
The first Arab woman pilot
Egyptian Lotfia Elnadi made history when she gained her pilot licence in 1933
The strike that shocked India
The Indian railway workers’ strike of 1974 prompted mass arrests and a state of emergency
Fighting forced marriage in war
Why a court in Sierra Leone ruled that forced marriage was a crime against humanity.
Saving the world's wetlands
Iran hosted the first convention to save the world's wetlands in1971.
