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The History Hour Episodes

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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

  2. When Eritrea silenced its critics

    A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu

  3. The child environmental activist of the 1990s

    Stories of the scientists and activists trying to solve the global environmental crisis.

  4. The Greenham Common women's peace camp

    The anti-nuclear weapons protest began in 1981 and lasted nineteen years

  5. The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

    In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan

  6. Black history: Britain and race

    London's first black policeman, the mixed-race World War II babies and a football legend.

  7. Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

    Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe

  8. Kenya: Westgate mall attack

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

  9. The earthquake that devastated Haiti

    In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

  10. 9/11 and the war on terror

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

  11. Surviving the fall of Saigon

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

  12. My father survived the sinking of the Titanic

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

  13. US withdrawal: The Fall of Saigon

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

  14. The Berlin Wall

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

  15. Chipko: India鈥檚 tree-hugging women

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

  16. Japan history special

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

  17. Darfur's ethnic war

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

  18. When the Taliban ruled Kabul

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

  19. North Korea's 1990s famine

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

  20. Supernatural sightings

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

  21. LGBT special

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

  22. 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.

  23. When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor

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

  24. The war on drugs

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

  25. Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend

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

  26. When Egypt said Enough

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

  27. Why a British MP was filmed taking mescaline

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

  28. The IRA hunger strikes

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

  29. The killing of Osama Bin Laden

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

  30. 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

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