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The History Hour Episodes

  1. Iraqi Shia Uprising - 1991

    At the end of the First Gulf War thousands of Iraqi Shias rose up against Saddam Hussein.

  2. China-Vietnam Border War 1979

    Former communist allies China and Vietnam fought a short but bloody war in 1979.

  3. The Original Revolutionary Feminist

    Feminism in the 20th century, poisoning in the Balkans, and a miscarriage of justice

  4. 05/03/2016

    An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.

  5. The Caracazo Protests

    Deadly protests in Venezuela in 1989; exodus to Liberia; the Foxcatcher murder.

  6. The Battle of Verdun

    The battle that traumatised France, forbidden Tibet in the 1940s and fashion's New Look

  7. Pakistan's Women Only Police Station

    How Karachi got an all female police station plus Black Sabbath & WW2 women code breakers

  8. Prozac

    The birth of the Prozac generation, saving ancient Afghan artworks, plus a Disney classic

  9. The Challenger Disaster

    The launch of space shuttle Challenger goes horribly wrong, Sharia in Nigeria, and Batman.

  10. Japanese Soldier in Hiding

    A Japanese soldier hid in the jungle of Guam for 27 years after WW2.

  11. The First Alzheimer's Patient

    The discovery of Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, Nigeria鈥檚 first coup and forbidden art in Russia

  12. Castro Takes Havana

    Cuban revolutionaries victorious, US nuclear accident in 60s Spain, Mao's Little Red Book

  13. The Donner Party

    A gruesome tale of the American West, Vietnamese refugees and a murder in Tsarist Russia.

  14. Michael Jackson's Thriller

    The release of the world's best-selling album, the death of a WW2 hero, and Beagle 2

  15. The 1960 Coup Against Haile Selassie

    How Ethiopia's Emperor was almost overthrown in a bloody coup

  16. The Battle of Tora Bora

    The hunt for Bin Laden, a KKK trial, the siege of Kut, and the Velvet Underground.

  17. Surviving Pearl Harbor

    Witness recalls Japan's raid, Nigeria's War Against Indiscipline, First heart transplant

  18. Surviving Ravensbruck

    Recalling a women-only concentration camp, a mystery US hijack and tough times in Cuba.

  19. Kenya鈥檚 Torture Chambers

    Repression on Kenyan opposition; mobs attack US embassy in Pakistan; and Erica Jong.

  20. The Amman Bombings

    Suicide bombings in Amman; a massacre in East Timor; and the fall of the Taliban

  21. The Russian Revolution

    Bolsheviks take power in Russia, the battle of El Alamein, and Britain鈥檚 last executioner

  22. The Great Depression: One Man's Story

    Growing up in the Great Depression, Cuba's best ballerina and a Jewish enclave in USSR.

  23. Sri Lanka Killings

    The horrors of civil war in Sri Lanka, the shrinking Aral sea and Iceland's women strike.

  24. The October Crisis in Canada

    Quebec separatists in 1970, Nurse Cavell executed in WW1, Russians in Shanghai

  25. The Assassination of Anwar Sadat

    The murder of Egypt鈥檚 president, a devastating earthquake in Pakistan and Barbary pirates

  26. The Death of Rock Hudson

    A Hollywood star dies of Aids, plus Buena Vista Social Club, Danish cartoons and Karaoke.

  27. The Attack on Fela Kuti

    Fela vs Nigeria's military, an old Ska superstar, the father of Hip Hop and Jacques Brel.

  28. The Leningrad Symphony

    The concert in besieged Leningrad, Iranian revolutionary musicians, plus Miriam Makeba.

  29. The King of Highlife

    West Africa's Highlife; the original TV boy band, and Egypt mourns Umm Kulthoum

  30. The Auschwitz Cellist

    A cellist survives thanks to her music, Russia's first DJ, the heyday of Somali music

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