Witness History Episodes Available now
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
The US invasion of Panama
In 1989, more than 20,000 US soldiers descended on the tiny Central American country
The invention of the shopping trolley
In 1937, American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman wanted his customers to spend more.
The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
In 2015, thousands of migrants lived in a squalid camp in France known as the "Jungle"
Africa’s stolen Metis children
In 1953, Marie-José Loshi was forcibly taken from her family because of her skin colour
Surviving Chile's tsunami
In 2010, an earthquake struck the coast of Chile triggering a tsunami
Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
In 1951, 22 Inuit children from Greenland were sent to live with families in Denmark
The Nellie massacre
In 1983, an estimated 3,000 people were massacred in Assam, India
Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
Dr Max Perutz made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century
