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Witness History Episodes

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    The standoff at Wounded Knee

    Forty years ago, American Indian activists staged a protest against the US authorities.

  2. The first World Trade Center attack

    How Islamic extremists tried to blow up the Twin Towers eight years before 9/11.

  3. The Theft of the Scream

    In 1994 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was stolen from a Norwegian art museum.

  4. Dutch school hostage crisis

    In 1977 independence activists from Indonesia's Molucca islands took a school hostage.

  5. The White Rose

    Seventy years ago, three German students were executed for protesting against Hitler.

  6. Welsh Dam Attack

    In 1963 Welsh nationalists took up arms against the construction of a controversial dam

  7. People Power in the Philippines

    How four days of huge protests brought down Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

  8. The Feminine Mystique

    Betty Friedan's book kickstarted the modern women's movement.

  9. The Lost Egyptian Tomb

    In 1995, archaeologists in Egypt's Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery

  10. The fall of Singapore

    February 1942, Singapore fell to the Japanese. Tens of thousands of soldiers became POWs.

  11. Human Shields in Iraq

    The British bus driver who took peace campaigners to Iraq ahead of the 2003 invasion

  12. The fall of Singapore

    In February 1942 Britain's stronghold in South East Asia fell to the Japanese.

  13. The Algerian Massacres

    In the 1990s, the Algerian military was locked in a brutal struggle with radical Islamists

  14. The Murder of James Bulger

    The killing of a toddler in Liverpool 20 years ago that shocked Britain

  15. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

    It is fifty years since the suicide of American poet Sylvia Plath

  16. The plot against Franco

    In 1964 a young Scot joined a plot to assassinate the Spanish dictator, General Franco.

  17. Shergar - the kidnapping

    It is 30 years since the Derby winner was abducted from a stud farm in Ireland.

  18. Marcel Proust

    The great French writer remembered by one of his friends and by his faithful maid.

  19. The Stolen Generation

    In 2008 the Australian Prime Minister apologised for the treatment of Aborigines

  20. "Ghana Must Go"

    Thirty years ago, Nigeria expelled up to 2 million African migrants. Most were Ghanaian

  21. Hugo Chavez and the failed coup

    In February 1992 a group of Venezuelan army officers staged a coup, among them Hugo Chavez

  22. The 'flour bomb' rugby tour

    In 1981 the South African rugby team toured New Zealand, prompting huge protests.

  23. The battle of Stalingrad

    It is 70 years since German troops lost their battle to take the Soviet industrial city.

  24. The funeral of Gandhi

    How millions of Indians mourned the death of Mahatma Gandhi

  25. Peter the Great in London

    How the young Tsar's visit to 17th Century England inspired him to modernise Russia

  26. The building of the Eiffel tower

    Work on the Eiffel Tower started in 1887 but many Parisians were opposed it

  27. Lagos Armoury Explosion

    Survivors relive the tragedy of the arms dump explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, 2002

  28. Vietnam - the 'Christmas Bombings'

    One girl's memories of the bombing that came before the ceasefire of 27 January 1973.

  29. Jimi Hendrix

    The legendary guitarist's English girlfriend remembers his early days in 60s London.

  30. Hitler's will

    In January 1946 a young British woman was given Hitler's will to translate.

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