Witness HistoryEpisodes Episode guide
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.(R)
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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25/05/2026 GMT
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Montenegro votes for independence
In 2006, Montenegro achieved independence from Serbia in the final break-up of Yugoslavia
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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18/05/2026 GMT
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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When Sweden invented the reality game show
In 1997, Sweden launched the world's first reality-based competitive TV show
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Uncovering a lost burial ground in Rio
In 1996, Merced dos Anjos unearthed the New Blacks Cemetery under her home in Brazil
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The fossil that revealed the first dinosaur feathers
In 1996, a fossil in China showed the first real hint that some dinosaurs had feathers
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Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
A 2015 report found 'cultural genocide' was committed against Canada's Indigenous people
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Witness History
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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Africa's worst stadium disaster
In May 2001, 127 people died after a stampede at a football match in the Ghanaian capital
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Finding the world’s most complete T-rex fossil
In August 1990, a team discovered the most complete T-rex fossil in the world
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Norway's WW2 railway sabotage plot
In 1942, Norwegian resistance fighters set out to blow up a railway used by the Nazis
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Nuns killed in Algeria
In October 1993, two nuns were shot dead near their convent in Algiers
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David Attenborough's First Expedition
The story of David Attenborough's first expedition.
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The origins of World Press Freedom Day
In 1991, journalists created the Windhoek declaration leading to World Press Freedom Day
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Inside the Cuban thaw
In 2014, secret negotiations aimed to improve relations between the US and Cuba
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Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment
In 1972, Peter Singer published one of the most influential ideas in modern philosophy
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Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis
In October 1973, the Netherlands became the first country to introduce car-free Sundays
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The world's first perfume archive
In 1990, L'Osmothèque opened in Versailles, France with a collection of 400 perfumes
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The Tabasco floods
In 2007, the Mexican state of Tabasco experienced its worst flooding in 50 years
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The clean-up of Chernobyl
The story of the clean-up at the world’s worst nuclear accident in Ukraine in April 1986(R)
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Canada's war in the woods
In 1993, rainforest logging plans sparked Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience
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Europe’s long drought of 2011
How months of no rain dried up the Danube River
