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Witness History Episodes

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    Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

    The teacher who formed Britain's Nazi party and the antifascists who fought against them.

  2. Winning the Arabic Booker prize

    Saudi author Raja Alem was the first woman to win the prestigious international award

  3. Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer

    The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football

  4. The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

    The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998

  5. A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain

    How Ibrahim Ismaa'il escaped poverty in Somalia to live in the British countryside.

  6. Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'

    The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain.

  7. London's first black policeman

    In 1967 Norwell Roberts became the first Black officer in the Metropolitan police

  8. The Tanker War

    Surviving a deadly attack on a merchant ship in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war

  9. Petra Kelly and the German Greens

    The radical German Greens reshaped the country’s political landscape in the early 1980s

  10. 'Mad cow disease' and CJD

    In 1996 the UK government said there was a link between BSE in cattle and CJD in humans

  11. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

    Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe

  12. The rise of the Taliban

    How the Afghan fighters first came to power in the 1990s

  13. Kenya: Westgate Mall attack

    Gunmen attacked a Nairobi shopping centre, the siege lasted four days in September 2013

  14. James Bond on screen

    As the latest James Bond film hits cinema screens we look at the appeal of the franchise

  15. The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

    How one of Vladimir Putin's critics was killed in London with a radioactive substance

  16. Mexico's miracle water

    People flocked from all over the Americas to central Mexico in search of healing water

  17. Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis

    The journalist who revealed the affair between the Greek shipping magnate and JFK's widow

  18. The Peter Principle

    Why promotion leads to incompetence

  19. Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune

    Copenhagen’s Christiania commune was created as a radical social experiment.

  20. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

  21. The lost king of France

    When DNA solved a two hundred year old French royal mystery. Did the king die or escape?

  22. The Attica prison rebellion

    One prisoner's memories of a dramatic siege in a high security jail in the USA.

  23. 9/11: The backlash against American Muslims

    In the aftermath of September 11th, American Muslims faced increased discrimination

  24. America attacks Afghanistan

    Just a month after 9/11, the US launched airstrikes against the Taliban and al-Qaeda

  25. With the president on 9/11

    How the White House chief-of-staff broke the news of 9/11 to President George W Bush.

  26. The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud

    Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed a key Afghan leader in a suicide bombing.

  27. The warnings before 9/11

    Throughout 2001 the US administration was being given warnings a terror attack was coming

  28. North Korea's founding father

    How Kim Il-sung came to power in communist North Korea

  29. The businessman who defied the Mafia

    How an anti-Mafia businessman paid the ultimate price for standing up to organised crime

  30. Surviving the fall of Saigon

    When South Vietnam fell in 1975, most could not escape.

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