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Witness History Episodes

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    The struggle to save Borneo's rainforests

    When logging threatened the rainforests of Sarawak, local communities fought back

  2. The Million Man March

    On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington DC

  3. The man who tried to kill Hitler

    On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk

  4. South Korea's 1980s prison camps

    A so-called Social Purification project led to thousands of citizens being imprisoned

  5. The scandal of Liverpool's missing Chinese sailors

    How the British city forced out Chinese seamen who'd served during World War Two.

  6. Returning Ethiopia's looted history

    The Stele of Axum, a 4th century Ethiopian treasure, was returned by Italy in 2005

  7. How Club Med changed holidays

    Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort in Majorca in summer 1950

  8. The fight for women's prayer rights in Israel

    A Jewish feminist group's campaign to pray freely at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

  9. The 1960s report that warned the USA was racist

    A US government report into the riots of 1967 blamed white racism for creating ghettos

  10. The death of Frida Kahlo

    In July 1954 the great Mexican artist died after years of illness. She was just 47.

  11. Montreal's 'Night of Terror'

    When the city's police force went on strike there was looting and rioting in the streets.

  12. The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

    The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998

  13. The doctor who discovered how cholera spread

    How Dr John Snow found out the cholera bug was spread through contaminated water in 1854.

  14. How South Africa banned skin-lightening creams

    In 1990, South Africa banned skin-lightening creams containing hydroquinone

  15. The lost Nazi-era art trove

    How a secret collection of art missing since Nazi rule was found in Germany in 2012

  16. Quarantined in a TB sanatorium

    The life of a nine-year-old girl quarantined in a TB sanatorium for 4 years in the 1950s

  17. The Rolling Stones drugs trial

    Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on trial for drugs offences in June 1967

  18. Jana Andolan – Nepal’s people power movement

    A people’s movement brought an end to Nepal’s absolute monarchy in 1990.

  19. Russia’s bitter taste of capitalism

    Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the sudden market reforms of early 1992.

  20. The Chilean economy and its 'Chicago Boys'

    Thinkers trained in free-market economics in Chicago shaped Chile after its military coup

  21. Tanzania's socialist experiment

    In the 1960s Tanzania tried out a new form of socialism called Ujamaa

  22. South Korea's economic miracle

    How a poor, war-ravaged nation became a global economic powerhouse

  23. The New Deal

    How the USA used public spending projects to battle through the Great Depression

  24. The ‘Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes’ anti-racist exercise

    A teacher decided to separate pupils according to eye colour to teach them about racism.

  25. The friendship train

    The passenger train service between India and Bangladesh was resumed after 43 years.

  26. Sex trafficking and peacekeepers

    Whistle-blowers implicated UN peacekeepers in sex trafficking in Bosnia in the late 90s

  27. Beethoven's role in China's Cultural Revolution

    Chairman Mao banned all classical music in 1966, but some musicians defied the order.

  28. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief

    The remarkable Swiss psychiatrist who changed the way we think about dying.

  29. Three Strikes Law

    One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life

  30. Rodney King and the LA riots

    People rioted in Los Angeles after police who had assaulted a black man were acquitted

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