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Witness History Episodes

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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and the Five Stages of Grief

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

  2. Three Strikes Law

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

  3. Rodney King and the LA riots

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

  4. Black basketball pioneers - Texas Western

    How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA

  5. The 16th Street church bombing

    Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963

  6. Brown v the Board of Education

    A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.

  7. The portable defibrillator

    How Northern Irish doctor Frank Pantridge revolutionised heart-attack treatment.

  8. The origin of the WHO

    How the cold war helped shape the creation of the WHO and what role China played.

  9. How Christo wrapped the Reichstag

    The artist who delighted post-Cold War Berlin by wrapping its greatest monument

  10. The Zanzibar Revolution

    Just one month after gaining independence there was an uprising in Zanzibar in 1964.

  11. The start of eco-tourism

    How Costa Rica's Monteverde cloud forest reserve became a major tourist site

  12. Ann Lowe - African American fashion designer

    Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name

  13. Winston Churchill's doctor

    Winston Churchill's personal doctor published his memories of the British leader in 1966

  14. The Gwangju massacre

    The South Korean army crushed a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju on 27 May 1980

  15. Risking my life to protect Congo's forest

    How a conservationist tried to protect Congo's rainforest during the country's civil war.

  16. The book that changed the way we eat

    The book that highlighted the health and environmental benefits of a plant based diet

  17. Britain's World War Two crime wave

    How criminals from looters to con artists thrived in London during the Blitz.

  18. Explaining autism

    One scientist's ground-breaking work that revolutionised our understanding of autism

  19. The first 3D printer

    The creator of the 3D printer had no idea how revolutionary this technology might become.

  20. Kowloon Walled City

    How Hong Kong’s city within a city was torn down in 1993.

  21. The Miami riots

    After four white policemen were acquitted of killing a black man - Miami rioted in 1980

  22. Sweden's fishy submarine scare

    Could farting fish have triggered Sweden's Cold War submarine hunts?

  23. Confessions of a Prince

    How Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands broke his silence to reveal a love child

  24. Fighting for the pill in Japan

    It took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.

  25. The first 24-hour children's helpline

    When a free helpline for kids was set up it showed just how widespread child abuse was

  26. The liberation of the Channel Islands

    The only part of the British Isles to be occupied during WW2 was liberated in May 1945

  27. VE Day

    VE Day saw Londoners celebrate the end of the Second World War in Europe.

  28. The Soviet occupation of Berlin

    After Germany's surrender to Allied forces in May 1945, Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin

  29. The battle for Berlin

    Eyewitness accounts of the final battle for the capital of Nazi Germany in 1945

  30. The death of Hitler

    First-hand accounts of Hitler's death from the BBC's archives

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