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The History Hour Episodes

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    North Korea's 1990s famine

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

  2. Supernatural sightings

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

  3. LGBT special

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

  4. 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.

  5. When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

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

  6. The war on drugs

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

  7. Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend

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

  8. When Egypt said Enough

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

  9. Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

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

  10. The IRA hunger strikes

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

  11. The killing of Osama Bin Laden

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

  12. 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

  13. The first woman in the US Supreme Court

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

  14. The women who reclaimed the night

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

  15. Black Jesus

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

  16. The History Hour

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

  17. The History Hour

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

  18. The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

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

  19. The Iron Curtain

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

  20. The fall of Kwame Nkrumah

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

  21. Black History: The Black Panthers

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

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

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

  23. The Burma protests of 1988

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

  24. The Arab Spring of 2011

    Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes

  25. Hitler's beer hall putsch

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

  26. Attack at the US Capitol

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

  27. Buddhist on Death Row

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

  28. 75 years of Unesco

    Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.

  29. Film special

    Featuring It鈥檚 A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli and Charlie Chaplin

  30. The birth of Bangladesh

    How Bangladesh鈥檚 struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.

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