The History Hour Episodes Available now
Ukrainian history special
The Babi Yar massacre, Ukraine's great famine and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Architecture that made history
From India to London, from skyscrapers to museums, the stories behind global landmarks.
Women who made history
US feminist Gloria Steinem, Iranian Nobel-winner Shirin Ebadi, the poet Anna Akhmatova.
Russia under Putin
How Vladimir Putin rose to power and changed Russia - eyewitnesses recount key moments
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
How Russia seized Crimea in 2014; the death of Trayvon Martin; Nigeria's film industry.
LGBT history special
Memories of the hunt for an HIV cure; Bollywood's lesbian drama; Serbia's trans icon.
The Ukraine crisis: an eyewitness history
Inside the meeting that ended the USSR and the battle for Ukraine's future
Kazakhstan's new capital
Kazakhstan鈥檚 new capital, the first Emirati female teacher, and a rare celestial event
Fifty years since Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday
UK soldiers fired on unarmed Catholic protesters, killing 13 in January 1972.
The rise of Boko Haram
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
