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Witness History Episodes

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    The Audacious Plot to Kill a Colonel

    How El Salvador's leftist rebels led a top army officer into a deadly trap

  2. The Case of Alger Hiss

    The conviction of diplomat Alger Hiss was one of America's most notorious spy cases

  3. The Exile of Wolf Biermann

    East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in November 1976.

  4. Toy Story - The First Digitally-Animated Feature Film

    It was a box-office hit and a revolution in the world of animated films.

  5. The Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem

    The president of South Vietnam was overthrown and murdered in a coup in November 1963.

  6. The Man Who Prosecuted Charles Manson

    Charles Manson's followers murdered 9 people on his orders. But how to prove his guilt?

  7. The Siege of Mecca

    In 1979 Islamic militants took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam

  8. Botswana's Diamonds

    Huge diamond deposits were first discovered in the Kalahari desert in Botswana in 1967

  9. The 'Disappeared' of Lebanon

    Searching for the thousands who went missing during Lebanon's brutal civil war.

  10. The Windmill Theatre

    A British national institution closed in 1964.

  11. The British Love Affair with Curry

    Indian restaurants first became popular in the UK in the 1950s.

  12. The Exploding Whale

    The story behind one of the most famous viral videos ever.

  13. World War One: Ordinary Lives

    Recordings of two people who felt the cost of war both on the battlefield and at home

  14. Sabah: The Songbird of Lebanon

    The singing star and actress was one of the most popular celebrities in the Middle East.

  15. Laika the Space Dog

    The Russian street dog was the first living creature to orbit the Earth.

  16. The Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks Take Control

    Eyewitness accounts of the Russian Revolution of 7 November 1917

  17. Osama Bin Laden's Last Interview

    Osama bin Laden spoke to journalist Hamid Mir as US-led forces closed in after 9/11.

  18. The Naked Ape

    The book that revolutionised the way we look at human behaviour.

  19. The Case That Saved Sex on the Internet

    In 1997 the US Supreme Court ruled against censoring sex on the internet.

  20. Oscar Niemeyer's Forgotten Masterpiece

    In the Lebanese city of Tripoli there is an exceptional architectural site.

  21. Martin Luther's 95 Theses

    How German monk Martin Luther started a religious revolution

  22. The Murder of Brazil's Leading Journalist

    Journalist Vladimir Herzog was killed in detention by the secret police in October 1975.

  23. A Literary Love Affair

    How Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir met and fell in love in Paris in October 1929

  24. The Death of Dele Giwa

    An eyewitness to the assassination of the famous Nigerian journalist Dele Giwa in 1986

  25. The Fake IDs That Saved Jewish Lives

    How tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews escaped the Nazis by using false papers.

  26. Private Eye

    A new satirical magazine called Private Eye was published in London in October 1961.

  27. Romania's Abortion Ban

    Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu made abortion illegal in October 1966.

  28. The 43 Group: Battling British Fascism

    How British Jewish ex-servicemen fought fascists on the streets of Britain after WW2

  29. The Mysterious Death of Samora Machel

    The socialist leader of Mozambique was killed in a plane crash and many were suspicious.

  30. Moscow Theatre Siege

    Svetlana Gubareva recalls her ordeal when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theatre in 2002.

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