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The History Hour Episodes

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    Japan history special

    The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the first bullet train, plus other historical moments

  2. Darfur's ethnic war

    Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.

  3. When the Taliban ruled Kabul

    Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine

  4. North Korea's 1990s famine

    How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea

  5. Supernatural sightings

    UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.

  6. LGBT special

    The Stonewall Riot, China's "Cooperative Marriages" and LGBT activism in Ivory Coast

  7. The Confederate flag and America鈥檚 battle over race

    One African-American woman鈥檚 act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.

  8. When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

    The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections

  9. The war on drugs

    US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971

  10. Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend

    Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.

  11. When Egypt said Enough

    The forerunner of the Arab Spring; fighting repression in South Korea; saving wetlands

  12. Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

    A history of psychedelic experiments, contraception in Ireland, an Iraqi escape story

  13. The IRA hunger strikes

    Hunger strikes in Northern Ireland, wine fraud, and feminist science fiction

  14. The killing of Osama Bin Laden

    The life and death of the al-Qaeda leader, the man behind the 9/11 attacks

  15. How the NRA became a US political lobbying giant

    A history of the gun lobby in the US, the Eichmann trial in 1961, the first space shuttle

  16. The first woman in the US Supreme Court

    Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to America's top court, plus the Bay of Pigs invasion

  17. The women who reclaimed the night

    Women's night-time protest, a Mexican female serial killer and the jet stream.

  18. Black Jesus

    The pastor who argued God was black; Mrs Thatcher wows Moscow; orchid-hunters kidnapped

  19. The History Hour

    South Africa fights for cheaper drugs, slavery in Mauritania and a sex therapy legend.

  20. The History Hour

    A Jamaican drug lord, New York鈥檚 drag scene and cold war chess in the Soviet Union.

  21. The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

    Egypt's Arab Spring, abortions in 1960s America, the champion of the Parthenon Marbles

  22. The Iron Curtain

    Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, South Africa's Sharpeville massacre and a deep dive.

  23. The fall of Kwame Nkrumah

    The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines

  24. Black History: The Black Panthers

    How radical was the US black rights group? Plus, Mary Wilson of the Supremes

  25. US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter

    Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless

  26. The Burma protests of 1988

    The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus

  27. The Arab Spring of 2011

    Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes

  28. Hitler's beer hall putsch

    Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries

  29. Attack at the US Capitol

    Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan

  30. Buddhist on Death Row

    How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"

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