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Witness History Episodes

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    Hitler's stolen children

    During WW2 the Nazis abducted blonde blue-eyed children to build an Aryan master race

  2. China's One Child policy

    The Chinese Communist Party started ruthlessly enforcing birth control in the early 1980s

  3. The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war

    How the army finally crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of bloody civil war

  4. Predicting the financial crash

    The economists who predicted the 2008 financial crash but whose warnings were ignored

  5. The Karakoram highway

    The road between Pakistan and China took 20 years to complete

  6. Strictly Come Dancing

    One of the most successful TV formats in the world started back in May 2004

  7. The war on drugs

    The first 'war on drugs' was launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971.

  8. The Bauhaus

    The groundbreaking school of art and design was founded in 1919

  9. The siege of Dien Bien Phu

    The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam

  10. Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba

    The Chinese billionaire set up his online shopping site in 1999

  11. The Malayan Emergency

    The struggle against a Communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s

  12. The sinking of the Belgrano

    The Argentine ship was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands war

  13. The Arctic African

    Why a boy ran away from West Africa to live in the Arctic in the 1960s.

  14. Rupert Brooke

    The English poet whose death at the start of World War One was mourned by millions

  15. Ellen comes out

    Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on primetime American television in April 1997.

  16. The al-Yamamah arms deals

    A record series of arms sales by the UK to Saudi Arabia began in the 1980s

  17. Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave

    The assassination of newspaper editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in 2009 shocked the world

  18. South Africa's first free elections

    After Apartheid all South Africans regardless of race finally won the right to vote.

  19. Britain's first vegans

    The Vegan Society was established in 1944 by British 'non-dairy vegetarians'

  20. Nato bombs Serbian TV

    A survivor from the April 1999 bombing in Belgrade that killed 16 people.

  21. The Columbine massacre

    13 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the school shooting on April 20th 1999

  22. How organic farming started

    Worries about the industrialisation of farming post-WW2 led some farmers to go organic.

  23. Auto-destructive art

    Gustav Metzger and the birth of the radical new art form in the 1960s

  24. The first play on Broadway written by a black woman

    'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry had an almost exclusively black cast too.

  25. Dennis Tito - the first space tourist

    In April 2001 an American multi-millionaire paid Russia to send him into space

  26. Chinese restaurant syndrome

    In the 1960's American diners began to worry that Chinese food was making them ill.

  27. The rise of Hindu nationalism

    The consolidation of the BJP as one of the major powers in Indian politics.

  28. The man who invented wingsuits

    The wingsuit is the ultimate in extreme sports clothing, for BASE jumpers and skydivers

  29. The Amritsar Massacre of 1919

    In April 1919 British Indian troops opened fire on protestors in the city of Amritsar

  30. The man who made Marilyn Monroe dance

    Choreographer Jack Cole had a huge influence on musical theatre and Hollywood films

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