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Witness History Episodes

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    "Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces

    For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret.

  2. The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia

    How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia

  3. The 1972 mass killings in Burundi

    In 1972 Burundi’s Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising

  4. Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'

    Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv

  5. Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik

    How the Spaniard became a legend in the world of ultra-fashionable shoes.

  6. The invention of Google Maps

    How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.

  7. The demise of the Soviet Union

    How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.

  8. The Death of King George VI

    How Britain marked the death of its wartime monarch and the accession of Queen Elizabeth

  9. The first Emirati female teacher

    The trailblazing story of the first Emirati born teacher

  10. The day the world looked up

    In 2012 a rare astronomical event occurred when Venus flew past the Sun

  11. The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl

    The reporter who was killed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan while investigating 9/11.

  12. Kazakhstan's new capital

    The story of Kazakhstan's new capital

  13. The Good Friday Agreement

    The frantic last-minute negotiations that led to a peace deal for Northern Ireland.

  14. IRA gun-running in America

    How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running operation in New York in 1981

  15. The Grand Hotel Bombing

    The IRA tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in October 1984.

  16. Bloody Sunday

    How British paratroopers opened fired on a civil rights march in Northern Ireland in 1972

  17. British troops in Northern Ireland

    The British army was sent to keep the peace in 1969; it stayed for nearly four decades.

  18. A Cold War love affair

    The story of a West German woman who crossed the Iron Curtain for love.

  19. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

    The story of Coretta Scott King’s campaign to have her late husband honoured in the US.

  20. The Stanford Prison Experiment

    The story of the famous psychology study, the Stanford Prison Experiment, of 1971

  21. The first bicycle-sharing scheme

    How a Dutch engineer invented a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution in the 1960s.

  22. The rise of Boko Haram

    How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency

  23. The first silicone breast implants

    How a Texas woman became the first in the world to have the popular cosmetic procedure.

  24. Costa Concordia

    The dramatic story of the cruise ship which sunk in the Mediterranean, killing 32 people.

  25. Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer

    How a Malian photographer's pictures of Mali's swinging '60s and '70s amazed the world.

  26. Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy

    The secret plan to clear a huge nuclear testing site after the fall of the Soviet Union.

  27. India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose

    The man who campaigned against colonial rule, allying himself with Hitler during WW2

  28. The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

    In January 1945, nearly 10,000 people died in the worst maritime disaster in history.

  29. Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter

    The leader of Mozambique's fight against colonial rule remembered by his daughter

  30. Marcel Proust

    The great French writer remembered by one of his friends and by his faithful maid.

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