成人快手

The police rape interview that shocked Britain

The documentary that changed the way British police treated women reporting rape.

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The Trabant

The iconic East German car that dominated the roads of communist Central Europe

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China's 'Economic Miracle'

Massive economic growth has been possible because of migrant labour, but at what cost?

• 9 mins

The Stonewall Inn

How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.

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Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in C么te d鈥橧voire

In 1992, a group of LGBT Ivoirians stormed the office of a national newspaper

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The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'

How the sexually explicit journals of a 19th-century English lesbian came to light

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China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages'

Thousands of gay men and lesbians in China hold fake marriages to avoid family pressure

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The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell'

For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret

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Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings

Around 60 children said they saw 'aliens' near their school playground in September 1994

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The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime

A play staged in Damascus undermined official propaganda after the 1967 Six Day War

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The world's first offshore wind farm

The world's first offshore wind farm was built off the coast of Denmark in 1991

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The Chinese Communist Party

A small group of revolutionaries founded the Chinese Communist Party in July 1921

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China's trailblazing foreign students

We hear from one of the first students to study overseas after the Cultural Revolution

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Cuba's blindness epidemic

Up to 50,000 Cubans were inexplicably struck down with sight loss in the early 1990s

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Britain's wartime gold

When Britain went to war with Germany in 1939 it had to find somewhere to keep its wealth

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The famine in North Korea

After the fall of the Soviet Union communist North Korea suffered a famine in the 1990s

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The first World Romani Congress

Roma people from all around Europe met up in England in 1971

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The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

In July 1985 the Greenpeace boat was bombed in New Zealand by French secret agents

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The race for the jet engine

Inspiration, rejection and war - a personal account of the invention of the jet engine

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Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution

Kim Gordon and his parents were locked up for two years in a hotel in China in the 1960s

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Jane Goodall and chimpanzees

How a young Englishwoman followed her dream to study chimpanzees in Africa

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When the Taliban took Kabul

Taliban fighters first took control of Afghanistan's capital city Kabul in 1996

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England's summer of riots

How six weeks of race riots gripped towns in northern England in 2001

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Domestic violence in Brazil

In 2006 Brazil passed the ground-breaking 'Maria da Penha law' to tackle domestic abuse

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The Battle of Gondar

In 1941, Italian colonial rule in Africa ended after a last stand by Mussolini's soldiers

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Surviving Norway's day of terror

Lisa Husby recalls running for her life from far-right extremist Anders Breivik

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When war came to Darfur

How a 13-year-old boy's life was changed by the war in Darfur in Sudan

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The paintings of Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh's great-great nephew recalls growing up among his paintings

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Japan's Bullet Train

Japanese railways launched the fastest train the world had ever seen in October 1964

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The birth of Karaoke

The man who invented the Karaoke machine speaks to Witness History

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