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Witness History Episodes

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    The first modern electric car

    The first mass-produced modern electric car was launched by GM in 1996

  2. The strike that changed Poland

    Shipyard workers in Gdańsk changed communism in Poland when they went on strike in 1980

  3. Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'

    A campaign to make life in Nigeria more orderly in the 1980s

  4. Syria's rebel poet

    Nizar Qabbani is one of the Arab world’s most famous poets but his legacy is contested

  5. Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities

    Activist Maryangel Garcia-Ramos on the struggle faced by Mexico's disabled women

  6. My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

    How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America.

  7. John Maynard Keynes

    The remarkable man who transformed 20th century economics and changed our world.

  8. When The Queen met Ceaușescu

    It was the first time a communist leader had been given a full state visit to the UK

  9. Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages

    A British Muslim family was among hundreds of foreign nationals held hostage in Iraq

  10. India's secret freedom radio

    When Gandhi was jailed in 1942 activists launched a secret radio station for independence

  11. US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon

    The desperate scramble to evacuate US personnel and locals at the end of the Vietnam war

  12. The man who coined the term genocide

    The Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide and spent his life trying to stop it

  13. Inside an East German jail

    Vera Lengsfeld was imprisoned by the communist authorities in East Germany in 1988

  14. East Germany's nudists

    The communist regime restricted many things in the GDR but not the freedom to go naked

  15. Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann

    East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in 1976

  16. Escaping from East Berlin

    East Germans used all sorts of methods to escape from communism across the Berlin Wall

  17. The building of the Berlin Wall

    In August 1961, East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe

  18. Gay activism in 1990s India

    Pawan Dhall helped form the Counsel Club, one of India's first gay support groups

  19. Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves

    When the Taliban fell in 2001 Afghans could listen to music and news again

  20. Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

    Patti Boulaye recalls frightening times as a 13-year-old girl in the Biafran War in 1967.

  21. Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women

    How a grassroots environmental movement won its fight against deforestation in India

  22. Dorothy Butler Gilliam: American news pioneer

    The first African American woman to be hired as a reporter by the Washington Post

  23. The Tsunami and Fukushima

    How an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan and triggered a nuclear emergency in 2011

  24. Fighting for the pill in Japan

    Why did it take so long for the oral contraceptive pill to be legalised in Japan?

  25. The soldier who never surrendered

    A Japanese soldier hid in the jungle in Guam for nearly 30 years after World War Two

  26. The birth of Karaoke

    The man who invented the Karaoke machine speaks to Witness History

  27. Japan's Bullet Train

    Japanese railways launched the fastest train the world had ever seen in October 1964

  28. The paintings of Vincent Van Gogh

    Vincent Van Gogh's great-great nephew recalls growing up among his paintings

  29. When war came to Darfur

    How a 13-year-old boy's life was changed by the war in Darfur in Sudan

  30. Surviving Norway's day of terror

    Lisa Husby recalls running for her life from far-right extremist Anders Breivik

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