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Witness History Episodes

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    When Russia's Richest Man Was Jailed

    Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003

  2. Maximilian Kolbe: 'The Saint of Auschwitz'

    The Polish priest who was declared a saint for swapping his life for a stranger's

  3. The Arrest in London of Augusto Pinochet

    The former ruler of Chile, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998

  4. Desmond Tutu Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

    Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize

  5. When Belgium Banned Coca-Cola

    When Belgian teenagers got sick they blamed Coca-Cola but the truth was more mysterious

  6. The Pergau Dam Affair

    In 1993 news broke about development aid linked to a British arms deal.

  7. Brazil's Hidden War in the Amazon

    How a small guerrilla group tried to start a revolution in the Brazilian jungle.

  8. The 1973 Oil Crisis

    In October 1973 an Arab oil embargo caused prices to rocket.

  9. Fighting Mount Etna

    How the Italian authorities diverted the stream of molten lava from the Etna volcano.

  10. Archbishop Oscar Romero

    Murdered while head of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador, he is being made a saint

  11. Austria at War

    The story of a young Austrian woman who survived World War Two and the allied occupation

  12. The Nazi Black Book

    During WW2 Germany listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis

  13. Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden

    In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden

  14. Reform of the House of Lords

    How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament

  15. Howl: The Poem That Revolutionised US Writing

    How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".

  16. The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary

    Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.

  17. The Invention of Artificial Skin

    How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal.

  18. The Street Battle That Rocked Brazil

    A clash between students in 1968 paved the way for a hardening of military rule.

  19. Racial Equality in Britain - Learie Constantine

    The former West Indies cricketer took a London hotel to court in 1943

  20. The Bridge Which United Sweden and Denmark

    The bridge which connected neighbours across the water and inspired a TV hit worldwide.

  21. Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War

    The war lasted for 8 years and is thought to have left over a million people dead.

  22. The Creation of the Cervical Cancer Vaccine

    The scientific breakthrough that saved the lives of thousands of women

  23. Isadora Duncan - Dance Pioneer

    Sometimes called the 'Mother of Modern Dance'

  24. The South African Army In Lesotho

    South Africa sent 600 soldiers into Lesotho to quell political unrest in September 1998

  25. Brazil's Nuclear Accident

    Hundreds of people were contaminated when a disused radiotherapy machine was scrapped.

  26. The Battle of Algiers

    The film that tells the true story of the Algerians' fight for their capital Algiers

  27. The Arnhem Parachute Drop

    In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland

  28. The Cuban Five

    The case of five Cuban spies arrested in Miami in September 1998

  29. The Fifteen Guinea Special

    The train signaled the end of the steam age on Britain's main-line rail network in 1968

  30. The Truth About Crop Circles

    Thought to be left by UFOs the phenomena was resolved when two men came forward in 1991.

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