Witness History Episodes Available now
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
Assassination of Malcolm X
In 1965, the controversial black leader, Malcolm X, was assassinated in New York
Murder at the Berlin Wall
In March 1974, Polish man Czesław Kukuczka was shot by a Stasi officer at the Berlin Wall
