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Witness History Episodes

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    The lost king of France

    When DNA solved a two hundred year old French royal mystery. Did the king die or escape?

  2. The Attica prison rebellion

    One prisoner's memories of a dramatic siege in a high security jail in the USA.

  3. 9/11: The backlash against American Muslims

    In the aftermath of September 11th, American Muslims faced increased discrimination

  4. America attacks Afghanistan

    Just a month after 9/11, the US launched airstrikes against the Taliban and al-Qaeda

  5. With the president on 9/11

    How the White House chief-of-staff broke the news of 9/11 to President George W Bush.

  6. The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud

    Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed a key Afghan leader in a suicide bombing.

  7. The warnings before 9/11

    Throughout 2001 the US administration was being given warnings a terror attack was coming

  8. North Korea's founding father

    How Kim Il-sung came to power in communist North Korea

  9. The businessman who defied the Mafia

    How an anti-Mafia businessman paid the ultimate price for standing up to organised crime

  10. Surviving the fall of Saigon

    When South Vietnam fell in 1975, most could not escape.

  11. The first modern electric car

    The first mass-produced modern electric car was launched by GM in 1996

  12. The strike that changed Poland

    Shipyard workers in Gdańsk changed communism in Poland when they went on strike in 1980

  13. Nigeria's 'War Against Indiscipline'

    A campaign to make life in Nigeria more orderly in the 1980s

  14. Syria's rebel poet

    Nizar Qabbani is one of the Arab world’s most famous poets but his legacy is contested

  15. Campaigning for Mexico's women with disabilities

    Activist Maryangel Garcia-Ramos on the struggle faced by Mexico's disabled women

  16. My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

    How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America.

  17. John Maynard Keynes

    The remarkable man who transformed 20th century economics and changed our world.

  18. When The Queen met Ceaușescu

    It was the first time a communist leader had been given a full state visit to the UK

  19. Saddam Hussein's foreign hostages

    A British Muslim family was among hundreds of foreign nationals held hostage in Iraq

  20. India's secret freedom radio

    When Gandhi was jailed in 1942 activists launched a secret radio station for independence

  21. US withdrawal: The fall of Saigon

    The desperate scramble to evacuate US personnel and locals at the end of the Vietnam war

  22. The man who coined the term genocide

    The Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide and spent his life trying to stop it

  23. Inside an East German jail

    Vera Lengsfeld was imprisoned by the communist authorities in East Germany in 1988

  24. East Germany's nudists

    The communist regime restricted many things in the GDR but not the freedom to go naked

  25. Exiled from East Germany: Wolf Biermann

    East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in 1976

  26. Escaping from East Berlin

    East Germans used all sorts of methods to escape from communism across the Berlin Wall

  27. The building of the Berlin Wall

    In August 1961, East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe

  28. Gay activism in 1990s India

    Pawan Dhall helped form the Counsel Club, one of India's first gay support groups

  29. Afghanistan's battle of the airwaves

    When the Taliban fell in 2001 Afghans could listen to music and news again

  30. Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

    Patti Boulaye recalls frightening times as a 13-year-old girl in the Biafran War in 1967.

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