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Witness History Episodes

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    Putin's war in Chechnya

    An eyewitness account of the Russian invasion of the breakaway republic in 1999

  2. Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia

    Chaos and hardship hit Russia when free-market reforms were introduced overnight in 1992

  3. The 2014 annexation of Crimea

    A personal account of how Russia took over the Crimean peninsula in 2014

  4. The death of Trayvon Martin

    The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.

  5. The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2

    The Native American soldiers who talked in a secret code, helping the Allies to victory

  6. Nixon in China

    The historic visit by the American president which normalised US relations with China.

  7. The first sex worker strike

    When 200 French sex workers took refuge in a church in Lyon, it started a movement.

  8. The world's first civil union

    In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions

  9. Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama

    "Fire" was one of the first films in Indian history to depict a lesbian relationship.

  10. The Berlin Patient

    Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.

  11. "Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces

    For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret.

  12. The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia

    How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia

  13. The 1972 mass killings in Burundi

    In 1972 Burundi’s Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising

  14. Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'

    Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv

  15. Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik

    How the Spaniard became a legend in the world of ultra-fashionable shoes.

  16. The invention of Google Maps

    How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.

  17. The demise of the Soviet Union

    How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.

  18. The Death of King George VI

    How Britain marked the death of its wartime monarch and the accession of Queen Elizabeth

  19. The first Emirati female teacher

    The trailblazing story of the first Emirati born teacher

  20. The day the world looked up

    In 2012 a rare astronomical event occurred when Venus flew past the Sun

  21. The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl

    The reporter who was killed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan while investigating 9/11.

  22. Kazakhstan's new capital

    The story of Kazakhstan's new capital

  23. The Good Friday Agreement

    The frantic last-minute negotiations that led to a peace deal for Northern Ireland.

  24. IRA gun-running in America

    How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running operation in New York in 1981

  25. The Grand Hotel Bombing

    The IRA tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in October 1984.

  26. Bloody Sunday

    How British paratroopers opened fired on a civil rights march in Northern Ireland in 1972

  27. British troops in Northern Ireland

    The British army was sent to keep the peace in 1969; it stayed for nearly four decades.

  28. A Cold War love affair

    The story of a West German woman who crossed the Iron Curtain for love.

  29. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

    The story of Coretta Scott King’s campaign to have her late husband honoured in the US.

  30. The Stanford Prison Experiment

    The story of the famous psychology study, the Stanford Prison Experiment, of 1971

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