Witness History Episodes Available now
The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission
On 24 April 1980, the US launched a disastrous attempt to free its hostages in Iran
Bloods and Crips
The truce in 1992 between the two main black street gangs in Los Angeles.
Bloods and Crips truce
In April 1992, the main black street gangs in Los Angeles started a historic truce.
Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
The romance between the widowed US First Lady and the Greek shipping tycoon in the 1960s.
The Sophiatown Removals
How apartheid destroyed one of the last multiracial communities in 1950s South Africa.
A Cure for Tuberculosis
Professor Denny Mitchison was a pioneer in the search for a cure for tuberculosis.
The rise of England's football hooligans
The rise of violence between English football fans in the 1970s
Zeppelins Attack England
In January 1915 huge German Zeppelin airships began the first bombing raids on England
The Life and Death of Agatha Christie
The best-selling novelist in history, crime-writer Agatha Christie, died in January 1976
The Hong Kong Riots of 1967
Striking workers and students filled the streets calling for an end to British rule.
