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Witness History Episodes

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    Iceland Jails Its Bankers

    The man who jailed 40 top bankers in Iceland after the 2008 global credit crunch

  2. The Bombardment of Baghdad

    The people of Baghdad faced death when the US and its allies began their invasion of Iraq

  3. Disney Goes to Europe

    The first Disney theme park in Europe took years of negotiations to get off the ground.

  4. The Soweto Uprising

    A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked an uprising in South Africa.

  5. The Capture of Che Guevara

    How the Marxist revolutionary was captured and killed in Bolivia.

  6. The Death of Hitler

    A first-hand account of Hitler from one of his secretaries who was there at the very end

  7. Women and the Iranian Revolution

    Many women supported Iran's 1979 Revolution but some later became disillusioned

  8. Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

    The US sent special forces to try to rescue hostages from their Embassy in Tehran in 1980

  9. Iran Hostage Crisis

    Barry Rosen was one of the Americans held hostage for 444 days in Tehran.

  10. Ayatollah Khomeini Returns From Exile

    In February 1979 an Islamic revolution began when Iran's exiled religious leader returned

  11. Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

    How Iran's state employed musicians started recording revolutionary songs.

  12. The Publisher Who Tried to Change the World

    Virago Press opened as a feminist publisher in 1972 to promote women's writing

  13. The Beatles' Last Gig

    In 1969, the Beatles played together in public for the last time, on a London rooftop.

  14. Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church

    Pope John XXIII wanted to modernise the Catholic Church, reforms took place in the 1960s.

  15. The Carry On Films

    The British comic film franchise which found fans around the world

  16. India's First Call Centre

    In the late 1990s a businessman started a new industry in India

  17. The Case of Dr Crippen

    How one of the most notorious murderers in Edwardian London was captured

  18. The Thames Whale

    In January 2006, millions of Londoners were entranced by the appearance of a whale.

  19. Strikers In Saris

    South Asian women led a strike against poor working conditions in a British factory.

  20. Mexico's Miracle Water

    Thousands of people flocked to the village of Tlacote hoping to be cured by magical water

  21. Judy Garland's Final Shows

    The world famous singer's final performances were in London in January 1969

  22. 'Fat is a Feminist Issue'

    Susie Orbach's book led people to rethink body-image from a feminist perspective

  23. Diary of Life in a Favela

    The poor black single mother who stunned Brazil with a book about her life in 1960.

  24. When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

    Hundreds of Soviet doctors were imprisoned or shot in the last year of Stalin's rule.

  25. Fidel Castro Takes Havana

    The end of the US-backed dictator and the start of communist rule in Cuba in January 1959

  26. The Doomsday Seed Vault

    In 2008, the first global seed vault was opened to safeguard the world's crops

  27. Vikings in North America

    The Canadian discovery that proved Vikings had crossed the Atlantic 1000 years ago

  28. Ceausescu's 'House of the People'

    The vast building that symbolised the excesses of Romania's brutal former dictator

  29. Barbara Cartland - Queen of Romance

    Exploring the life of bestselling writer Dame Barbara Cartland.

  30. Brazil's Marijuana Summer

    In 1987 thousands of tin cans full of marijuana washed up on the beaches in Rio.

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