The History Hour Episodes Episode guide
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Algeria's War of Independence
60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic 鈥渂irth of a nation鈥�
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Women's rights in Iraq
What is life like for women in Iraq following the US invasion in 2003?
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War crimes in the former Yugoslavia
How the conflicts in the Balkans resonate today amid the fighting in Ukraine
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The Falkands War
Two contrasting accounts of the conflict from an islander and an Argentine conscript.
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Protesting against Putin
A decade ago demonstrators tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
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Ukrainian history special
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
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Architecture that made history
From India to London, from skyscrapers to museums, the stories behind global landmarks.
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Women who made history
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
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Russia under Putin
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
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LGBT history special
Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.
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The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future
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Kazakhstan's new capital
Kazakhstan鈥檚 new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event
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Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
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The rise of Boko Haram
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
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Hitler's Indian ally: Subhas Chandra Bose
The Indian independence campaigner who sided with Hitler's axis powers in World War Two.
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Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
The liberation leader was assassinated in 1969 in the struggle to end Portuguese rule
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A history of games
The inside story of Pong, Grand Theft Auto, Tetris, Lego and Monopoly
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The right to drive in Saudi Arabia
The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.
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The birth of Bangladesh
How a war of independence in 1971 reshaped South Asia and killed hundreds of thousands.
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Fighting 'virginity tests' in the Indonesian police
Virginity tests for women joining the Indonesian police and the battle to end them
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Four decades of HIV/Aids
A history of HIV/Aids over the past 40 years.
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The assassination of the Mirabal sisters
Women activists in the Caribbean, the last case of Smallpox in Europe and assisted dying.
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Sudan's October Revolution
How in 1964 Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime
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The South African football star murdered for being a lesbian
The killing of Eudy Simelane, spying in East Germany and racism in 1960s British schools
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When Eritrea silenced its critics
A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu
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The child environmental activist of the 1990s
Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.
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The Greenham Common women's peace camp
The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years
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The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan
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Black history: Britain and race
London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.
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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
