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The History Hour Episodes

  1. The Donner Party

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

  2. Michael Jackson's Thriller

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

  3. The 1960 Coup Against Haile Selassie

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

  4. The Battle of Tora Bora

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

  5. Surviving Pearl Harbor

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

  6. Surviving Ravensbruck

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

  7. Kenya鈥檚 Torture Chambers

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

  8. The Amman Bombings

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

  9. The Russian Revolution

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

  10. The Great Depression: One Man's Story

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

  11. Sri Lanka Killings

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

  12. The October Crisis in Canada

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

  13. The Assassination of Anwar Sadat

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

  14. The Death of Rock Hudson

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

  15. The Attack on Fela Kuti

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

  16. The Leningrad Symphony

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

  17. The King of Highlife

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

  18. The Auschwitz Cellist

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

  19. Latinos Protest Against Vietnam

    A Mexican-American march descends into chaos, Hurricane Katrina and executions in Iran.

  20. The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

    The murder of a Russian revolutionary, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and mass poisoning in Oregon

  21. Korea Divided

    Korea split after World War Two, the penal colony Devil's Island and Harry Potter

  22. The Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, a plot to kill Iranian writers, plus the first bionic ear

  23. Afghanistan's First Coup

    The Afghan coup of 1973, TV's first interracial kiss and scouts in the Warsaw Uprising

  24. Britain's Landslide 1945 Election

    In July 1945 Labour won a surprise victory, defeating war-time leader Winston Churchill.

  25. The Manhattan Project

    First Atom bomb, poison gas in 1915, survivng sharks in WW2 and Uruguay's hero Ghiggia

  26. Tamil Doctors and the Sri Lankan Civil War

    The violent end of Sri Lanka's civil war; a KGB spy escapes; Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  27. Helen Keller

    Deaf and blind Helen Keller, Red Cross visits Nazi concentration camp, Berlin Love Parade

  28. Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR

    Marshal Tito shuns Stalin, the downing of Air India Flight 182 and saving the whale.

  29. Iran's Cultural Revolution

    Iran's Islamic hardliners shut universities to drive out secular opposition

  30. 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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