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Witness History Episodes

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    Buddhists and death row

    How criminals facing the death penalty in the USA found peace

  2. The oldest song in the world

    Deciphering the 3,500 year-old song discovered on a clay tablet in Syria

  3. 01/01/2021

    History as told by the people who were there

  4. Saving the Great Barrier Reef

    In the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef

  5. Le Corbusier and Chandigarh

    The modernist architect Le Corbusier agreed to build a 'city of the future' in India

  6. The building of the Aswan Dam

    One of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed in 1970

  7. UNESCO and race and tolerance

    How UNESCO fought racism and advocated tolerance.

  8. It's a Wonderful Life

    A former Hollywood child star remembers filming the classic Christmas movie in 1946.

  9. Studio Ghibli - Japan's Oscar-winning animators

    The early days of the studio which brought Japanese animation to a global audience

  10. Satyajit Ray - India's master of film

    An actor's memories of working with the Bengali director on the classic Apu trilogy

  11. The Sound of Music

    The real story behind the heart-warming musical released in 1965

  12. The Great Dictator

    Charlie Chaplin's classic satirical film about Adolf Hitler was released in 1940

  13. The GDR's Namibian children

    At Christmas 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany

  14. The blockade of Gibraltar

    How a Spanish blockade of the disputed British territory ended in December 1982.

  15. British reality TV is born

    The first British fly-on-the-wall documentary series aired on the BBC in 1974.

  16. The birth of Bangladesh

    Pakistan's first democratic elections led to the creation of a new country, Bangladesh

  17. White Christmas

    American entertainer Bing Crosby made 'White Christmas' one of the defining songs of WW2

  18. The return of the beaver

    Why beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out

  19. Neanderthal cave mystery

    A remarkable discovery in a cave at Bruniquel in southern France in 1990

  20. Chief Albert Luthuli wins the Nobel Prize for Peace

    Albert Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

  21. The pioneer of 'Mountain Filming'

    How a German filmmaker, Arnold Fanck, shot films high in the mountains in the 1920s

  22. The life and work of Chester Himes

    The African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France

  23. The V1 flying bomb

    How the first of the Nazi's new "revenge weapons" terrorised Londoners in WW2

  24. The slaves who defeated Napoleon

    The first successful slave uprising in modern times, it prompted the abolition of slavery

  25. France's Muslim headscarf ban

    A law banning religious clothing from French state schools came into effect in 2004

  26. Iraq's pioneering feminist

    Dr Naziha Al-Dulaimi was the first woman to hold a ministerial office in the Arab world

  27. How Ethiopian rebels took power in 1991

    In 1991 a Tigrayan-led rebel movement took power in Addis Ababa ending years of war

  28. The fight for disabled rights in the UK

    The wheelchair warriors who brought London to a standstill to make their point

  29. Rwanda at the Paralympics

    In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians

  30. India's campaign for disability rights

    How activists forced through the first law to help tens of millions of disabled Indians

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