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Witness History Episodes

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    The Sound of Music

    The real story behind the heart-warming musical released in 1965

  2. The Great Dictator

    Charlie Chaplin's classic satirical film about Adolf Hitler was released in 1940

  3. The GDR's Namibian children

    At Christmas 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany

  4. The blockade of Gibraltar

    How a Spanish blockade of the disputed British territory ended in December 1982.

  5. British reality TV is born

    The first British fly-on-the-wall documentary series aired on the BBC in 1974.

  6. The birth of Bangladesh

    Pakistan's first democratic elections led to the creation of a new country, Bangladesh

  7. White Christmas

    American entertainer Bing Crosby made 'White Christmas' one of the defining songs of WW2

  8. The return of the beaver

    Why beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out

  9. Neanderthal cave mystery

    A remarkable discovery in a cave at Bruniquel in southern France in 1990

  10. Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace

    Albert Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

  11. The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming'

    How a German filmmaker, Arnold Fanck, shot films high in the mountains in the 1920s

  12. The life and work of Chester Himes

    The African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France

  13. The V1 flying bomb

    How the first of the Nazi's new "revenge weapons" terrorised Londoners in WW2

  14. The slaves who defeated Napoleon

    The first successful slave uprising in modern times, it prompted the abolition of slavery

  15. France's Muslim headscarf ban

    A law banning religious clothing from French state schools came into effect in 2004

  16. Iraq's pioneering feminist

    Dr Naziha Al-Dulaimi was the first woman to hold a ministerial office in the Arab world

  17. How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991

    In 1991 a Tigrayan-led rebel movement took power in Addis Ababa ending years of war

  18. The fight for disabled rights in the UK

    The wheelchair warriors who brought London to a standstill to make their point

  19. Rwanda at the Paralympics

    In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians

  20. India's campaign for disability rights

    How activists forced through the first law to help tens of millions of disabled Indians

  21. Britain's little blue disability car

    For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled cars for transport

  22. Helen Keller

    The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world

  23. When the Egyptian president went to Israel

    Why Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to visit Israel in November 1977

  24. Our Bodies, Ourselves

    The story of a radical book about women’s health and sexuality.

  25. America's WW2 refugee camp

    How nearly a thousand Jewish refugees were housed in an old fort near New York during WW2

  26. The world's first woman premier

    In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister

  27. Captured by Somali pirates

    Captain Colin Darch and his crew were held hostage by pirates for 47 days in 2008

  28. The 'good enough' mother

    Donald Winnicott helped mothers understand babies through psychoanalysis in the 1940s.

  29. When Pluto lost its planet status

    An international committee of astronomers agreed Pluto wasn't really a planet in 2006

  30. World War One in Africa

    Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa

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