Witness History Episodes Available now
The missing victims of apartheid
How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule
The Cutter Incident
How mistakes with the initial production of polio vaccine made thousands of children ill.
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
The working class woman who shook up the British theatre establishment
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001.
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Behind the scenes at the Iraqi-funded, Clash of Loyalties
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
The landmark legislation was introduced to ensure the rights of African Americans to vote
The last of the Kazakh herders
Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
On October 13th 1990 the fifteen year long conflict in Lebanon finally came to an end
The launch of CNN
1980 saw the launch of the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news.
The Battle of Lewisham
How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.
