Witness History Episodes Available now
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Behind the scenes at the Iraqi-funded, Clash of Loyalties
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
The landmark legislation was introduced to ensure the rights of African Americans to vote
The last of the Kazakh herders
Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
On October 13th 1990 the fifteen year long conflict in Lebanon finally came to an end
The launch of CNN
1980 saw the launch of the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news.
The Battle of Lewisham
How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
New laws were used to stop clubs from banning black and ethnic minority people in 1978
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Yvonne Conolly was made head of a London primary school in 1969.
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
A ship carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean set sail for Britain in 1948
