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Witness History Episodes

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    Searching For Argentina's Disappeared

    How the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo challenged Argentina's military rulers.

  2. Bosnia: Rape as a Weapon of War

    During the Bosnian war of the early 1990's, thousands of women were raped.

  3. When the Syrian Army Withdrew from Lebanon

    On April 26th 2005, Syrian forces finally pulled out of Lebanon after almost 30 years.

  4. Revolutionary Psychiatrist RD Laing

    The man who changed the way people thought about mental illness.

  5. Bulgaria's "Revival Process"

    Bulgaria's brutal policy of forced assimilation against its Turkish minority in the 1980s

  6. The Suzuki Violin Method

    In post-WW2 Japan, Shinichi Suzuki developed a new method of teaching the violin.

  7. The Hubble Space Telescope

    When it began sending images back to Nasa they were out of focus - Mike Weiss fixed it

  8. Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile

    Eugene Chaplin remembers his famous father's love-hate relationship with the USA

  9. The World Festival of Black Arts

    In April 1966 thousands of African artists and performers gathered in Senegal

  10. How Peru Mistook Missionaries For Drug Traffickers

    Hear from the American who survived being shot down in his plane over the Amazon jungle

  11. The Takeover of NTV in Russia

    NTV was the only nationwide independent TV channel in Russia. It was taken over in 2001.

  12. America's 504 Disability Rights Protests

    In April 1977, US disabled activists occupied a government building for nearly a month.

  13. UK Sikhs Fight For Religious Rights

    In 1969 Sikh bus drivers in Wolverhampton won the right to wear turbans on duty.

  14. The Katyn Massacre

    Tens of thousands of Polish officers were executed in the USSR during World War 2.

  15. Ethiopia's Red Terror

    In the 1970s Ethiopia's military regime launched a brutal campaign of repression

  16. Egypt's Facebook Girl

    Israa Abd El Fattah was one of the first Egyptian activists to use Facebook for protests.

  17. The USA Enters World War One

    America declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917

  18. Princess Diana's Handshake with Aids Patient

    In April 1987 Princess Diana opened the UK's first purpose built HIV Aids unit

  19. The Nagorno-Karabakh war

    One man whose family were made refugees during the Nagorno-Karabakh war tells their story

  20. The Jane Fonda Workout

    In April 1982 the film star Jane Fonda launched her first workout video.

  21. The Collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf

    Glaciologist Pedro Svarka recalls the massive ice shelf tumbling into the Antarctic seas.

  22. Teletubbies

    In March 1997 the BBC launched one of the most successful children's TV programmes ever.

  23. Anthrax Leak in the Soviet Union

    In 1979, an outbreak of anthrax poisoning caused dozens of deaths in the Soviet Union.

  24. The Flavr Savr Tomato - The World's First Genetically Engineered Food

    In 1994, a tomato became the world's first genetically engineered food on sale

  25. The Murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero

    The outspoken cleric from El Salvador killed at the altar by a right-wing death squad.

  26. The Death of King Faisal

    King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew in March 1975

  27. Ayn Rand

    The Russian-American philosopher whose novels praising capitalism sold in the millions.

  28. Mass Deportations From Soviet Estonia

    In 1949, Moscow arranged the deportation of tens of thousands of Estonians to Siberia.

  29. Submarine Warfare in WW1

    The underwater vessels were first used widely in the First World War

  30. An Assassination in Colombia

    The murder of left-wing opposition politician Bernardo Jaramillo in March 1990.

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