Witness History Episodes Available now
Free breakfast with the Black Panthers
The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.
The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'
Until 2011 LGBT service people in the US armed forces had to keep their sexuality secret
An Ethiopian war hero
Ethiopia sent soldiers to fight alongside the United Nations during the Korean War
Magellan and the first voyage around the world
In 1519, the Portuguese explorer set off on the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
India's affirmative action controversy
Why guaranteeing government jobs to lower caste Hindus led to weeks of student protests.
The TV series Friends
One of the most successful TV comedy shows of all time hit US screens in September 1994
The coup, the president and the embassy
How the deposed Honduran president spent months holed up in the Brazilian embassy
The businessman who defied the Italian Mafia
In 1991 Libero Grassi was killed in Sicily for publicly refusing to pay protection money.
The Holocaust denial trial
The libel case that put history itself in the dock in 2000
