The History Hour Episodes Available now
US 'smart bombs' hit an Iraqi air raid shelter
Hundreds of civilians killed in a Gulf War airstrike; the newspaper to help the homeless
The Burma protests of 1988
The fight for democracy in Burma, US troops on drugs in Vietnam, the Moscow state circus
The Arab Spring of 2011
Eyewitness accounts of the sweeping social unrest against repressive regimes
Hitler's beer hall putsch
Hitler's first attempt at seizing power, anti-Sikh riots in India, and the Turner Diaries
Attack at the US Capitol
Puerto Rican militants attack Congress, India's first woman lawyer, landing on Titan
Buddhist on Death Row
How US prisoners turned to Buddhism to face execution, and the truth of a space "strike"
75 years of Unesco
Why Unesco was set up 75 years ago, in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Film special
Featuring It鈥檚 A Wonderful Life, Studio Ghibli and Charlie Chaplin
The birth of Bangladesh
How Bangladesh鈥檚 struggle for independence began with a landmark election in Pakistan.
The first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize
The anti-apartheid campaigner Albert Luthuli plus a Neanderthal discovery and beavers.
