The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Latinos Protest Against Vietnam
A Mexican-American march descends into chaos, Hurricane Katrina and executions in Iran.
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The Assassination of Leon Trotsky
The murder of a Russian revolutionary, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and mass poisoning in Oregon
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Korea Divided
Korea split after World War Two, the penal colony Devil's Island and Harry Potter
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The Bombing of Hiroshima
Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, a plot to kill Iranian writers, plus the first bionic ear
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Afghanistan's First Coup
The Afghan coup of 1973, TV's first interracial kiss and scouts in the Warsaw Uprising
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Britain's Landslide 1945 Election
In July 1945 Labour won a surprise victory, defeating war-time leader Winston Churchill.
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The Manhattan Project
First Atom bomb, poison gas in 1915, survivng sharks in WW2 and Uruguay's hero Ghiggia
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Tamil Doctors and the Sri Lankan Civil War
The violent end of Sri Lanka's civil war; a KGB spy escapes; Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Helen Keller
Deaf and blind Helen Keller, Red Cross visits Nazi concentration camp, Berlin Love Parade
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Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR
Marshal Tito shuns Stalin, the downing of Air India Flight 182 and saving the whale.
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Iran's Cultural Revolution
Iran's Islamic hardliners shut universities to drive out secular opposition
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Denmark's Inuit Experiment
Inuit children sent for re-education in 1951, the Six Day War, and a refugee boat tragedy
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The Eichmann Tapes
The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was interviewed while in hiding in Argentina.
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The Heysel Stadium Disaster
One of Europe's worst stadium disasters; housing segregation in the US; Italy in WW1
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Archbishop Romero of San Salvador
The murder of an outspoken Salvadoran Archbishop, a coup in Fiji and the Elephant Man
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Siege of The Church of the Nativity
In May 2002 gunmen and civilians, were holed up in one of Christianity's most holy sites.
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VE Day
WW2 ends in Europe, chemical weapons tests on UK soldiers, Aden's independence struggle
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The US Evacuation of Saigon
In the last days of April 1975 thousands of people were airlifted out of Vietnam
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The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission
Operation Eagle Claw, the death of Einstein and the musical Carousel.
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The Bloods and Crips Truce
In April 1992, two Los Angeles gangs signed a cease-fire.
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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
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The 1943 Bengal Famine
Millions die of famine in British-ruled India, US Marshall Plan & Ireland bans smoking
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The History of the Black Box
Australian David Warren invented flight recorders which give clues to why planes crash.
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Golda Meir
Israel's first woman prime minister; Escaping East Berlin; America's biggest art heist.
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The Mysterious Death of an MP in Kenya
JM Kariuki's murder in Kenya plus Jackie Kennedy's secret romance with Aristotle Onassis
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The German Invasion of Czechoslovakia
The Nazis invade Czechoslovakia, being Stalin's interpreter and the real Von Trapp family
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The battle for Iwo Jima
The fight for the Pacific island in WW2; the looting of Benin's bronzes; and a CIA mole.
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The Murder of Daniel Pearl
The killing of the US journalist in Pakistan, Martha Gellhorn, and the Bee Gees.
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The Sophiatown Removals
How the South African government destroyed a mixed-race suburb, plus Dresden and Minamata
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The Conflict is Over
Secret peace talks in Northern Ireland, McDonald's opens in Moscow, and Bertrand Russell