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Witness History Episodes

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    The KKK and the Killing of Viola Liuzzo

    In 1965, three KKK members were convicted of conspiring to kill a civil rights activist

  2. The Battle of Tora Bora

    After the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan in 2001 the hunt for Osama bin Laden began.

  3. WW1: The Siege of Kut, Iraq

    Thousands of British and Indian troops spent five months trapped in Kut, Iraq in WW1

  4. Gay and lesbian support for the British miners' strike

    In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised to support striking coal-miners.

  5. Cuban Fighters in Angola

    Thousands of Cuban troops fought with Angola's Marxist government forces in the civil war

  6. The First Heart Transplant

    On 3 December 1967, two brothers carried out the first heart transplant operation

  7. Surviving Pearl Harbor

    How one US Navy mechanic made it through the surprise Japanese attack on his Pacific base

  8. The Bari Raid 1943

    How a devastating air raid on Bari during WW2 led to the deadly release of mustard gas

  9. Nigeria's "War Against Indiscipline"

    In 1984 General Buhari's military regime launched an unusual campaign to clean up Nigeria

  10. Surviving Ravensbruck

    The story of a survivor of Ravensbruck, the Nazis' concentration camp for women

  11. Britain's Palestine Patrols

    How the Royal Navy stopped Jewish refugee ships trying to reach Palestine in the 1940s.

  12. Cuba's 'Special Period'

    In the 1990s the Cuban economy came close to collapse after Soviet aid dried up

  13. Racial Equality on the Dance Floor

    A nightclub in the British city of Birmingham was forced to lift its racial restrictions

  14. The DB Cooper Mystery

    In November 1971 a hijacker parachuted from a US plane with a $200,000 ransom

  15. Attack on the US Embassy in Islamabad

    In late November 1979 a mob set fire to the US Embassy in Islamabad

  16. The CIA's Cultural War: how the CIA secretly funded the magazine Encounter

    How the CIA secretly funded the hugely influential cultural magazine Encounter.

  17. Fear of Flying: The Best Selling Book About Sex, Creativity And Love

    Erica Jong, a feminist author from New York, talks about her novel on female sexuality

  18. Fire: Bollywood Explores Lesbian Love

    Indian film star Shabana Azmi recalls playing a lesbian in the controversial film, Fire

  19. Kenya’s Torture Chambers

    In 1986 the Kenyan government began a programme of secretly torturing suspected opponents

  20. The Fall of the Taliban

    On 13 November 2001, the Taliban administration collapsed in Afghanistan

  21. East Timor Massacre

    In November 1991 Indonesian troops opened fire on independence activists in East Timor

  22. Romany: Pioneer Wildlife Broadcaster

    Romany of the BBC was a pioneer naturalist broadcaster of Roma Gypsy origin

  23. India Anti-Sikh Riots

    Following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, India was gripped by anti-Sikh riots

  24. The Amman Bombings

    On 9 November 2005, nearly 60 people were killed in Jordan's worst terror attack

  25. The Russian Revolution: Alexander Kerensky

    Alexander Kerensky, overthrown by Lenin in 1917, comments on the Russian Revolution

  26. The Battle of El Alamein

    In 1942, the Allies launched an offensive in Egypt that helped shape the course of WW2

  27. The Green March

    In November 1975 a huge crowd of Moroccans marched into a Spanish colony in the desert

  28. Britain's Executioner - Albert Pierrepoint

    Archive interviews with Britain's most famous hangman, who executed more than 400 people.

  29. The Jarrow Crusade

    In 1936 men from the North of England marched to London to protest at mass unemployment.

  30. A Jewish Homeland in Siberia

    In 1930 the USSR created a Jewish Region in Siberia, a homeland for Soviet Jews

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