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Witness History Episodes

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    Iraq: Ten years on - Working for the Americans

    How one Iraqi who took a job with the US military, was threatened with death as a traitor.

  2. Iraq: Ten years on - Looting in Baghdad

    In April 2003, Baghdad descended into chaos as American troops took control of the city.

  3. Iraq: Ten years on - The invasion of Iraq

    John Crawford was part of the US forces that rolled into Iraq in March 2003.

  4. Iraq: Ten years on - The bombardment of Baghdad

    It is a decade since the US and its allies began their invasion of Iraq.

  5. Lebanon hostage crisis

    In 1991 Giandomenico Picco went to Beirut to try to free Western hostages.

  6. Syrian uprising

    Two years ago Syria's conflict began with demonstrations in the southern city of Daraa.

  7. Giandomenico Picco - Hostage negotiator

    The UN envoy who tried to secure the release of Western hostages in Lebanon.

  8. Marie Stopes, Birth Control Pioneer

    In March 1921 Marie Stopes opened Britain's first birth control clinic in London.

  9. The Theft of Charlie Chaplin's Body

    In March 1978 thieves stole the body of Charlie Chaplin from a cemetery in Switzerland.

  10. The Tibetan uprising

    In 1959 the people of Tibet turned against Chinese occupying forces.

  11. Cesar Chavez - Yes We Can!

    How a Mexican-American civil rights leader coined the phrase that would inspire Obama.

  12. Gay in the US military

    In 1975 a US airman announced he was gay, to test the military's attitude to homosexuals.

  13. Viagra

    Fifteen years ago a new "wonder" drug was approved for use in the United States.

  14. Skiing in the Swat Valley

    One man's mission to bring fun back to the battle-scarred Swat Valley in Pakistan.

  15. The death of Joseph Stalin

    60 years ago the Soviet dictator died and the whole of the USSR was plunged into mourning.

  16. Armenia and Azerbaijan

    It is 25 years since violence broke out in the city of Sumgait in Azerbaijan.

  17. The Cultural Revolution in China

    In the mid 1960s the young people of China were encouraged to turn on their elders.

  18. The Bethnal Green tube disaster

    It is 70 years since 173 people were crushed to death at an air-raid shelter in London

  19. Choosing a Pope

    Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor tells the story of electing Pope Benedict in April 2005

  20. The standoff at Wounded Knee

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

  21. The first World Trade Center attack

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

  22. The Theft of the Scream

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

  23. Dutch school hostage crisis

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

  24. The White Rose

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

  25. Welsh Dam Attack

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

  26. People Power in the Philippines

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

  27. The Feminine Mystique

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

  28. The Lost Egyptian Tomb

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

  29. The fall of Singapore

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

  30. Human Shields in Iraq

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

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