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Witness History Episodes

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    The largest war crimes trial in history

    The former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague in 2002.

  2. Nato intervenes in Kosovo

    How the US and its allies backed air strikes against Serbian forces to stop atrocities.

  3. The Great American Grain Robbery

    How a catastrophic trade deal between the US and Moscow sparked a global food price shock

  4. The handshake in Space

    How Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met up in space during the Cold War

  5. The Soviet Union's Afghan War

    How what Moscow planned as a short military operation turned into the Soviet "Vietnam".

  6. The Falklands War - an Argentine account

    An Argentine conscript remembers his country's doomed military campaign in 1982.

  7. The Falklands War - An islander's account

    A local radio broadcaster remembers keeping calm as Argentine troops invaded his studio.

  8. Escaping a Maoist cult

    Aravindan Balakrishnan ran a cult in London for 30 years; then two of its members fled.

  9. Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers

    How one of the Dutch artist's masterpieces was auctioned for a world record in 1987.

  10. Afghanistan's women's newspaper

    Aina-E-Zan, or Women's Mirror, was launched in 2002 at a time of hope for Afghan women.

  11. The black stunt performers who took on Hollywood

    The battle to fight prejudice behind-the-scenes in the American film industry.

  12. The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin

    A decade ago protestors tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power

  13. Soviet holidays in Crimea

    Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.

  14. Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre

    The mass killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazi Germany during World War Two.

  15. The Holodomor: Ukraine's great famine

    Several million people died in the 1930s in what became known as The Holodomor

  16. The Budapest Memorandum

    The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994

  17. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster

    In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.

  18. The Shard

    The building of the controversial London skyscraper, designed by Italian Renzo Piano.

  19. Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center

    The ground-breaking building was the first American museum to be designed by a woman

  20. Teheran's Freedom Tower

    The vast monument built for the Shah, but now a centrepiece for protests in Iran.

  21. Chandigarh: India's city of the future

    How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India

  22. The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction

    The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.

  23. The Wages for Housework campaign

    How feminists in Italy began an international campaign for payment for housework in 1972.

  24. Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi

    The Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003: Dr Shirin Ebadi

  25. The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war

    The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.

  26. Gloria Steinem and Ms Magazine

    The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women

  27. Anna Akhmatova - Voice of Russia

    How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history.

  28. Russia's war in Georgia in 2008

    First-hand accounts of Russia's battle with another former Soviet republic in 2008.

  29. The takeover of NTV in Russia

    How NTV journalists tried in vain to keep their station out of President Putin's control.

  30. Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation

    How the Russian president quit and apologised to the nation in a New Year's Eve address.

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