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Witness History Episodes

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    The Kindertransport children who fled the Nazis

    How thousands of unaccompanied children were sent to safety by their desperate parents

  2. Mexico's murdered women

    How young women began disappearing in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez in 1993

  3. The murder of black teenager Emmett Till

    In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi

  4. The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas

    How the influential Brazilian leader took his own life rather than submit to the military

  5. The return of the wolf

    Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone decades after they were wiped out in the US.

  6. I helped liberate Paris from the Nazis

    A former member of the French resistance remembers the drama of August 1944

  7. Finding El Salvador's missing children

    The search for hundreds of children kidnapped by the Salvadoran army during the civil war

  8. The first human Cyborg

    In 1998 a transponder was implanted into the body of British scientist, Kevin Warwick.

  9. Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read

    The Dr Seuss books revolutionised reading in America in the 1950s.

  10. Catching 'Carlos the Jackal'

    How the CIA tracked down one of the world's most wanted men

  11. The warnings before 9/11

    Throughout 2001 the US authorities were given warnings that a terror attack was imminent

  12. The daily disposable contact lens

    How the contact lens became cheap enough to throw away after a day

  13. The division of Kashmir

    The October 1947 crisis which led to the partition of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

  14. The Yangtze Incident

    How a British warship escaped from Chinese Communists on the Yangtze river in 1949

  15. British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland

    In August 1969 the British Army was deployed on the streets of Londonderry

  16. Criminals in the community

    How Britain pioneered Community Service as an alternative to prison in the 1970s

  17. Under the North Pole

    In 1958 the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travelled under the North Pole.

  18. The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'

    How thousands of French families fled from Algeria as it won independence

  19. The invasion of Kuwait

    Thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks began pouring into Kuwait on 2 August 1990

  20. The Warsaw uprising

    On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces

  21. The anti-nuclear protesters who won

    The eight year protest campaign which stopped a nuclear plant at Wackersdorf in Germany.

  22. The treasures of Sutton Hoo

    A huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was discovered in southern England in 1939.

  23. The death of David Kelly

    The weapons inspector's death deepened the row over the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq

  24. Humanity's earliest ancestor

    A fossilised skull found in Chad is thought to be the earliest-known ancestor of humans

  25. When Tunisia led on women's rights

    When Tunisia introduced divorce, abortion and votes for women ahead of much of the world.

  26. The Chappaquiddick Incident

    The car accident involving US Senator Edward Kennedy which left a young woman dead

  27. LGBT 'cooperative' marriages in China

    How LGBT people in China started arranging fake marriages to hide their sexuality

  28. Mamma Mia!

    The story of the hit musical Mamma Mia! from the woman who created it

  29. The Beagle 2 mission to Mars

    A failed attempt to search for signs of life on Mars

  30. Apollo 13

    The Moon mission that almost ended in tragedy after an explosion on board the spaceship.

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