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Witness History Episodes

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    Barack Obama's Indonesian childhood

    As President Obama visits Indonesia, Witness takes you back to his childhood there

  2. Blasted

    It is 15 years since the play Blasted first shocked theatregoers

  3. Suez canal invasion 1956

    In November 1956 Britain and France invaded Egypt - to regain control of the Suez canal

  4. Suez canal invasion 1956

    In November 1956 Britain and France invaded Egypt - to regain control of the Suez canal

  5. Burma Elections

    What was it like to vote in Burma's last general election in 1990?

  6. Rabin Assassination

    It is exactly 15 years since the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated.

  7. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 1960

    Is it a book you would even wish your wives and servants to read?

  8. Election of JFK

    Ted Sorensen, speechwriter to John F Kennedy, died at the weekend.

  9. Rhine Pollution

    An industrial accident on the banks of the Rhine in 1986, turned the river red

  10. Rhine Pollution

    An industrial accident on the banks of the Rhine in 1986, turned the river red

  11. Death of the Dodo

    Why did the Dodo - a flightless bird - become extinct?

  12. Cuban Missile Crisis

    Living through the Cuban Missile Crisis - in Cuba

  13. Mullah Omar

    Talking to the leader of the Taliban

  14. Storming the Winter Palace, 1917

    The Russian Revolution gets underway in St Petersburg

  15. The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854

    Into the Valley of Death rode the six hundred.

  16. Hungarian Uprising

    In the autumn of 1956 Hungarians shook off Soviet power for a few days at least.

  17. Kuwait oil fires 1991

    A Texan firefighter recalls the battle in Kuwait against the world's biggest oil fire

  18. Charlie Chaplin's film The Great Dictator

    In October 1940 Charlie Chaplin released an epic film mocking Adolf Hitler

  19. Wall Street Crash of 1987

    The biggest one-day crash in the history of the New York Stock Exchange

  20. Pinochet Case

    General Pinochet's surprise arrest at a London clinic in 1998

  21. Land Speed Record

    On October 15 1997, a British team set a land speed record which still hasn't been beaten.

  22. Olympic protest 1968

    At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, two black American athletes staged a protest

  23. Brazil prison massacre

    How the Brazilian police killed 111 prisoners during a riot in a Sao Paulo jail.

  24. Bali Bombs

    Bomb attacks shatter the Indonesian island of Bali, eight years ago today.

  25. Asylums

    A special edition of Witness looks at life inside psychiatric institutions of the past.

  26. Che Guevara

    On the 9th of October 1967 Che Guevara was killed by armed forces in the Bolivian jungle.

  27. The death of anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko

    When Steve Biko died in police custody, the South African government lied about his death

  28. Thai student killings 1976

    How a student protest 30 years ago, led to bloodshed in the Thai capital

  29. The fall of Slobodan Milosevic

    When protestors stormed the Yugoslav parliament - President Milosevic stepped down

  30. The Battle of Cable Street

    How ordinary Londoners turned the tide against British fascism in October 1936.

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