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The History Hour Episodes

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    Kenya: Westgate mall attack

    Inside the Westgate attack in Kenya, the murder of Litvinenko, plus Onassis and Kennedy

  2. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

  3. 9/11 and the war on terror

    A special edition on the terrorist attacks on America and how they changed the world.

  4. Surviving the fall of Saigon

    A Vietnamese veteran remembers the fall of south Vietnam , and Kim Il Sung up close

  5. My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

    How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America

  6. US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon

    The desperate scramble to evacuate the US embassy at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975

  7. The Berlin Wall

    In 1961, communist East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe

  8. Chipko: India鈥檚 tree-hugging women

    The 1970s environmental movement, a child who fled Biafra, an American news pioneer

  9. Japan history special

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

  10. Darfur's ethnic war

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

  11. When the Taliban ruled Kabul

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

  12. North Korea's 1990s famine

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

  13. Supernatural sightings

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

  14. LGBT special

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

  15. 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.

  16. When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

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

  17. The war on drugs

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

  18. Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend

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

  19. When Egypt said Enough

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

  20. Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

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

  21. The IRA hunger strikes

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

  22. The killing of Osama Bin Laden

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

  23. 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

  24. The first woman in the US Supreme Court

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

  25. The women who reclaimed the night

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

  26. Black Jesus

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

  27. The History Hour

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

  28. The History Hour

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

  29. The women of Egypt's Arab Spring

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

  30. The Iron Curtain

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

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