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Witness History Episodes

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    The Little Prince

    The mystery surrounding the death of the author of the world famous children's tale

  2. D-Day

    Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.

  3. Vikings in York

    Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved domestic Viking life in York in the 1970s

  4. Six Degrees - the first online social network

    Andrew Weinreich founded the first online social network in 1997.

  5. Behind the scenes on Sesame Street

    The inside story of one of the most popular children's TV shows ever made

  6. Tiananmen Square escape

    Dan Wang was the most wanted student leader after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

  7. Bokassa's massacre of the children

    How protests by young people led to Jean-Bédel Bokassa's fall from power in C.A.R

  8. The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

    The man who led India to independence died on May 27th 1964

  9. The Acid Survivors Foundation

    The Bangladesh charity dedicated to treating the survivors of acid attacks.

  10. How environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

    The story of how environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

  11. Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

    When MPs tried to toughen the laws against homosexuality, LGBT activists took a stand.

  12. The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

    The Chicxulub impact crater was discovered in 1978.

  13. Walking the Great Wall of China

    Three friends set off on an epic trek along the Great Wall of China in May 1984

  14. Hitler's stolen children

    During WW2 the Nazis abducted blonde blue-eyed children to build an Aryan master race

  15. China's One Child policy

    The Chinese Communist Party started ruthlessly enforcing birth control in the early 1980s

  16. The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war

    How the army finally crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of bloody civil war

  17. Predicting the financial crash

    The economists who predicted the 2008 financial crash but whose warnings were ignored

  18. The Karakoram highway

    The road between Pakistan and China took 20 years to complete

  19. Strictly Come Dancing

    One of the most successful TV formats in the world started back in May 2004

  20. The war on drugs

    The first 'war on drugs' was launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971.

  21. The Bauhaus

    The groundbreaking school of art and design was founded in 1919

  22. The siege of Dien Bien Phu

    The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam

  23. Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba

    The Chinese billionaire set up his online shopping site in 1999

  24. The Malayan Emergency

    The struggle against a Communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s

  25. The sinking of the Belgrano

    The Argentine ship was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands war

  26. The Arctic African

    Why a boy ran away from West Africa to live in the Arctic in the 1960s.

  27. Rupert Brooke

    The English poet whose death at the start of World War One was mourned by millions

  28. Ellen comes out

    Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on primetime American television in April 1997.

  29. The al-Yamamah arms deals

    A record series of arms sales by the UK to Saudi Arabia began in the 1980s

  30. Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave

    The assassination of newspaper editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in 2009 shocked the world

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