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Witness History Episodes

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    The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

    In April 1945 British troops discovered the horrors of the Holocaust in a camp in Germany

  2. Rebuilding the Site of the Twin Towers

    How a team of architects were given the responsibility to repair New York's skyline.

  3. World War One: Germany's Spring Offensive 1918

    Germany launched a huge offensive on the Western Front in a last gamble to win the war.

  4. The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke

    The German student leader was shot in April 1968, leading to protests in West Berlin.

  5. The Soviet Spy Scandal

    In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.

  6. The Zimbabwe Massacres

    Robert Mugabe sent troops to put down opposition supporters in western Zimbabwe in 1983.

  7. The First Frozen Embryo Baby

    Zoe Leyland was born in Australia on April 11th 1984 after her mother's IVF treatment.

  8. Woodfall Films

    The film company which changed British cinema.

  9. The Emergency Rescue Committee

    The Emergency Rescue Committee helped save intellectuals and artists from the Nazis

  10. 2001 A Space Odyssey

    Actor Keir Dullea recalls starring in Stanley Kubrick's ground-breaking sci-fi movie

  11. Russia's Bitter Taste of Capitalism

    Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the rapid market reforms in early 1992.

  12. The UNAbomber

    How the UNAbomber Ted Kaczynski was caught after his brother turned him in

  13. The Invention of Semtex

    The Czech plastic explosive that was once undetectable to security services

  14. The Good Friday Agreement

    The deal which brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence.

  15. Mapping the Ocean's Secrets

    Marie Tharp's discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge proved the theory of plate tectonics

  16. The 'Oasis of Peace'

    The story of Wahat al-Salam, Neve Shalom where Jews and Arabs live side by side in peace.

  17. Sarajevo: Singing for Peace

    How a multi-faith choir brought together survivors of the Bosnian civil war.

  18. First Women on the London Stock Exchange

    The women who broke tradition shocking London's top-hatted stockbrokers.

  19. Who Killed Luis Colosio?

    The murder of a presidential candidate that shocked Mexico.

  20. Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud

    In 1988 scientists performed a carbon dating test on the Shroud of Turin.

  21. A Brief History of Time

    Physicist Stephen Hawking's best-seller, A Brief History of Time, was published in 1988

  22. Elvis in the US Army

    How the 'King' of Rock'n'Roll became a GI in 1958 and served during the Cold War

  23. The Skull Valley Sheep Kill

    Did a nerve agent kill 6,000 sheep close to a US military testing site in 1968?

  24. Latvia's Controversial Waffen-SS Fighters

    In 1998 Latvian Waffen-SS veterans marched to remember a battle against the Soviets.

  25. Tancredo Neves - Doomed Hero of Brazilian Democracy

    How the politician who led Brazil to democracy died before taking office as president.

  26. The Battle of the Airwaves in Latin America

    How the BBC began Spanish and Portuguese broadcasts to fight the Nazis in the Americas

  27. Surviving The My Lai Massacre

    One of the worse US military atrocities took place during the Vietnam war.

  28. The Moscow Show Trials

    An eyewitness account of Stalin's purge of top Soviet leaders during the Great Terror.

  29. Changing the Alphabet in Azerbaijan

    After independence Azerbaijan changed from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin letters.

  30. Marie Stopes: Birth Control Pioneer

    The first birth control clinic in Britain was opened in London in 1921 by Dr Marie Stopes

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