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Witness History Episodes

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    The Murder of Journalist Hrant Dink

    The Turkish Armenian journalist was shot dead in January 2007 in front of his office.

  2. The End of El Salvador's Civil War

    A former Salvadoran guerrilla fighter talks about her experience of war and peace.

  3. US Presidential Transitions

    What exactly goes on during the months between election and inauguration?

  4. Princess Diana's Minefield Walk

    How Britain's most famous Royal brought the danger landmines to the world's attention.

  5. Chicago's Police Torture

    A victim of abuse at the hands of the Chicago police tells his story.

  6. The Zimmermann Telegram

    How British code-breakers exposed a German plot against the United States in 1917

  7. Turkey's Headscarf Row

    In 1999 a Turkish woman MP appeared in parliament wearing a headscarf. It caused uproar.

  8. Death in the Amazon

    Auca tribesmen killed five American missionaries in the jungle in January 1956.

  9. Albania's Economic Chaos

    How the collapse of 'pyramid' investment schemes caused riots in Albania in 1977

  10. Charter 77

    In January 1977 an opposition movement began in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia.

  11. Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels

    A Vietnamese war veteran on life in the Viet Cong's tunnel network in South Vietnam

  12. America's First Communists

    Husband and wife Bert and Ella Wolfe faced persecution in the movement's early years

  13. Russia's 'Dog Man'

    How conceptual artist Oleg Kulik posed as a dog, attacking passers-by in Moscow.

  14. The Launch of Vogue Russia

    Aliona Doletskaya remembers starting post Soviet-Russia's biggest glossy fashion magazine

  15. The Nuclear Legacy

    The story of how the world was made safe from the former Soviet Union's nuclear legacy

  16. Georgia In Crisis

    After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Georgia found itself on the verge of civil war.

  17. The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

    Hear from two of the key players who brought to an end over 70 years of communism

  18. Apollo 8

    How the first mission around the Moon captured the world's imagination at Christmas 1968

  19. Samuel Beckett

    The great Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989

  20. Turkey-Greece Island Dispute

    How Greece and Turkey almost came to war over a tiny rocky island in the Aegean sea.

  21. Derek Jarman

    The experimental film-maker made his first feature film 'Sebastiane' in 1976.

  22. Death of an Anarchist

    Giuseppe Pinelli was an Italian anarchist who died in police custody - but why?

  23. The First Latin American 'Telenovela'

    Brazil's Vida Alves starred in the first ever Latin American soap opera in December 1951.

  24. Cot Death

    The 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched in 1991 to prevent babies dying in their cots

  25. The Hindu 'Milk Miracle'

    Millions of Hindus were gripped by reports of their God, Ganesha, 'drinking' milk.

  26. Sara Ginaite Lithuanian Jewish Partisan

    A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.

  27. Yoyes - Woman leader of ETA

    The life and tragic death of the first woman leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.

  28. Fighting for Rural Women in South Africa

    Sizani Ngubane set up the Rural Women's Movement in South Africa in the 1990s

  29. Recreating Down Syndrome in Mice

    Scientist Elizabeth Fisher created a new strain of mouse to help understand Down Syndrome

  30. Wangari Maathai Wins Nobel Prize

    In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

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