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The History Hour Episodes

  1. The Bloods and Crips Truce

    In April 1992, two Los Angeles gangs signed a cease-fire.

  2. The 鈥楧eath of a Princess鈥� film

    The TV film which caused a diplomatic crisis, Idi Amin鈥檚 downfall and riots in the USA

  3. The 1943 Bengal Famine

    Millions die of famine in British-ruled India, US Marshall Plan & Ireland bans smoking

  4. The History of the Black Box

    Australian David Warren invented flight recorders which give clues to why planes crash.

  5. Golda Meir

    Israel's first woman prime minister; Escaping East Berlin; America's biggest art heist.

  6. The Mysterious Death of an MP in Kenya

    JM Kariuki's murder in Kenya plus Jackie Kennedy's secret romance with Aristotle Onassis

  7. The German Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The Nazis invade Czechoslovakia, being Stalin's interpreter and the real Von Trapp family

  8. The battle for Iwo Jima

    The fight for the Pacific island in WW2; the looting of Benin's bronzes; and a CIA mole.

  9. The Murder of Daniel Pearl

    The killing of the US journalist in Pakistan, Martha Gellhorn, and the Bee Gees.

  10. The Sophiatown Removals

    How the South African government destroyed a mixed-race suburb, plus Dresden and Minamata

  11. The Conflict is Over

    Secret peace talks in Northern Ireland, McDonald's opens in Moscow, and Bertrand Russell

  12. Escaping a Nazi train to Auschwitz

    The boy who escaped a Nazi death train plus America's first black presidential candidate

  13. US Drone War

    A US drone operator speaks out, Patrice Lumumba, plus football hooligans and Al Capone

  14. Somalia's Rural Literacy Campaign

    Teaching nomads in Somalia, the WWII Raoul Wallenberg mystery, and Agatha Christie dies

  15. Evidence of the Big Bang

    An unexpected discovery to prove the Big Bang Theory, Guantanamo opens and Prague spring

  16. The Biggest Rock Concert Ever

    Rod Stewart remembers Rio, Portugal's Casa Pia scandal, plus the first Big Brother.

  17. The Battle of the Bulge

    Hitler's last gamble, the 1914 Christmas truce, a pirate DJ at sea, and peace in Nepal

  18. Cuba Special

    The USA is to normalise relations with Cuba - we look back at their troubled relationship

  19. The Hunt for BRCA2

    The search for a key 'cancer gene', Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and the Kyoto conference

  20. Britain's First Woman MP

    The remarkable Lady Astor, Hong Kong's 1967 riots, Lebanon's civil war and US free speech

  21. The Destruction of the Bridge at Mostar

    The Bridge at Mostar, Australia's rabbit plague, India's Eton and Kraftwerk

  22. The Nuremberg Trials

    The last Nazi prosecutor, priests murdered in El Salvador, Mitterand's secret daughter

  23. The Marsh Arabs

    The destruction of Iraq's marshes by Saddam Hussein

  24. The Fall of the Berlin Wall

    The fall of the Berlin Wall, Jane Goodall's study of chimpanzees, and Sigmund Freud.

  25. The War that led to Peace

    The Arab-Israeli conflict of 1973, the oil shock which followed it and a jewel heist.

  26. The Ethiopia Famine

    The TV report that alerted the world to starvation in Ethiopia in 1984

  27. The Fall of Nikita Khrushchev

    The Soviet leader is forced out, London dock strike, and a controversial feminist play

  28. The Death of Che Guevara

    The CIA man who tracked down Che; the devastating Boer War, plus Thatcher and Hong Kong

  29. Willie Nelson's Farm Aid

    Benefit concert for poor US farmers, Japan launches world's fastest train, and James Dean

  30. The World's First Hand Transplant

    A transplant which didn't end well; The Cuban 5; Senegal ferry disaster; Bokassa falls.

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