Witness History Episodes Available now
In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'
Richard Nixon's contingency speech in case the moon landing astronauts never made it home
First spacewalk
On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk
The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme
On 23 October 2004, Brazil launched its first rocket following a devastating accident
Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia
In March 2015, 22 people were killed when two gunmen stormed the building
The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’
In 1997, a Gambian woman started an environmental initiative
The Capitol Crawl
On 12 March 1990, hundreds of wheelchair users crawled up the steps of the US Capitol
King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical
South Africa’s first musical with an all-black cast opened to critical acclaim in 1959
The invention of GPS
The Global Positioning System, also known as GPS, was created in the late 1970s
How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965
In 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was brought in to end racial discrimination
The Great Toyota War
In 1987, rugged pickup trucks provided a turning point in the decades-long war in Chad
