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Witness History Episodes

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    First Successful Sex Change

    The story of Christine Jorgensen who had surgery to change her sex from a man to a woman.

  2. Iran Hostage Crisis - The Canadian Story

    In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran.

  3. Eric Hebborn - Forger Extraordinary

    The story of one of the most prolific art forgers of the 20th Century.

  4. Isabelle Dinoire: The World's First Face Transplant

    In November 2005, doctors in France carried out the first ever face transplant.

  5. The Secret Soviet Naval Mutiny

    In November 1975, an incredible mutiny took place aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic.

  6. The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

    20 years ago the world's first webcam was set up - and it was pointed at a pot of coffee.

  7. Lee Harvey Oswald and the USSR

    Lee Harvey Oswald had spent two years living in the USSR after serving there as a Marine

  8. The death of the Kabaka of Buganda

    In 1969 the first President of Uganda, Edward Mutesa, died in exile in London.

  9. Windsor Castle Fire

    How a fire devastated Queen Elizabeth's weekend home in 1992.

  10. Shoot

    In November 1971 a young American artist decided to get a friend to take a shot at him.

  11. Cesar Chavez - Yes we can!

    How the Mexican-American trade union leader Cesar Chavez inspired Latinos in the 1960s.

  12. The Lost Tribe Hoax

    The Filipino stone-age cave dwellers who fooled the scientific community.

  13. China's one-child policy

    Created to tackle China's expanding population, but how was the one-child policy enforced?

  14. Colombia mudslide

    It's 27 years since over 20,000 people died when a volcano erupted in western Colombia.

  15. Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant

    In 1984 doctors in California tried a revolutionary operation on a two-week-old baby girl.

  16. Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour

    The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler.

  17. Mutiny on the Bounty

    The original story of betrayal at sea - from contemporary eyewitness testimonies.

  18. John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me

    Over 50 years ago a white journalist tried living as a black man in America's Deep South.

  19. The death of Leonid Brezhnev

    One of the longest-serving leaders of the Soviet Union died on the 10 of November 1982.

  20. The Crate Escape

    An incredible plot to kidnap, drug and repatriate Nigerian exile Umaru Dikko in 80s London

  21. Lebensborn Babies

    In the 1930s the Nazi party hatched a secret plan to breed an elite Aryan race.

  22. Vietnam Photographer

    The great British war photographer Don McCullin remembers the Vietnam war.

  23. Garbage, the City and Death by Fassbinder

    In 1985 a Frankfurt theatre attempted to stage a play by the controversial German writer.

  24. Russian Revolution

    It is 95 years since the October Revolution which led to the creation of the Soviet Union.

  25. Howl

    Allen Ginsberg first read his poem Howl, in San Francisco in October 1955.

  26. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Showdown

    Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba

  27. The Iran-Iraq War

    In the autumn of 1980 one of the longest wars of the 20th Century began.

  28. The Wall Street Crash

    On 24 October 1929, the New York Stock Exchange began to plummet.

  29. The Moscow Theatre Siege

    It is 10 years since Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage.

  30. Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles

    The gradual build up of weaponry - Soviet built ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads

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