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The History Hour Episodes

  1. The Russian Revolution

    Bolsheviks take power in Russia, the battle of El Alamein, and Britain鈥檚 last executioner

  2. The Great Depression: One Man's Story

    Growing up in the Great Depression, Cuba's best ballerina and a Jewish enclave in USSR.

  3. Sri Lanka Killings

    The horrors of civil war in Sri Lanka, the shrinking Aral sea and Iceland's women strike.

  4. The October Crisis in Canada

    Quebec separatists in 1970, Nurse Cavell executed in WW1, Russians in Shanghai

  5. The Assassination of Anwar Sadat

    The murder of Egypt鈥檚 president, a devastating earthquake in Pakistan and Barbary pirates

  6. The Death of Rock Hudson

    A Hollywood star dies of Aids, plus Buena Vista Social Club, Danish cartoons and Karaoke.

  7. The Attack on Fela Kuti

    Fela vs Nigeria's military, an old Ska superstar, the father of Hip Hop and Jacques Brel.

  8. The Leningrad Symphony

    The concert in besieged Leningrad, Iranian revolutionary musicians, plus Miriam Makeba.

  9. The King of Highlife

    West Africa's Highlife; the original TV boy band, and Egypt mourns Umm Kulthoum

  10. The Auschwitz Cellist

    A cellist survives thanks to her music, Russia's first DJ, the heyday of Somali music

  11. Latinos Protest Against Vietnam

    A Mexican-American march descends into chaos, Hurricane Katrina and executions in Iran.

  12. The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

    The murder of a Russian revolutionary, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and mass poisoning in Oregon

  13. Korea Divided

    Korea split after World War Two, the penal colony Devil's Island and Harry Potter

  14. The Bombing of Hiroshima

    Atomic bombs dropped on Japan, a plot to kill Iranian writers, plus the first bionic ear

  15. Afghanistan's First Coup

    The Afghan coup of 1973, TV's first interracial kiss and scouts in the Warsaw Uprising

  16. Britain's Landslide 1945 Election

    In July 1945 Labour won a surprise victory, defeating war-time leader Winston Churchill.

  17. The Manhattan Project

    First Atom bomb, poison gas in 1915, survivng sharks in WW2 and Uruguay's hero Ghiggia

  18. Tamil Doctors and the Sri Lankan Civil War

    The violent end of Sri Lanka's civil war; a KGB spy escapes; Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  19. Helen Keller

    Deaf and blind Helen Keller, Red Cross visits Nazi concentration camp, Berlin Love Parade

  20. Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR

    Marshal Tito shuns Stalin, the downing of Air India Flight 182 and saving the whale.

  21. Iran's Cultural Revolution

    Iran's Islamic hardliners shut universities to drive out secular opposition

  22. Denmark's Inuit Experiment

    Inuit children sent for re-education in 1951, the Six Day War, and a refugee boat tragedy

  23. The Eichmann Tapes

    The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was interviewed while in hiding in Argentina.

  24. The Heysel Stadium Disaster

    One of Europe's worst stadium disasters; housing segregation in the US; Italy in WW1

  25. Archbishop Romero of San Salvador

    The murder of an outspoken Salvadoran Archbishop, a coup in Fiji and the Elephant Man

  26. Siege of The Church of the Nativity

    In May 2002 gunmen and civilians, were holed up in one of Christianity's most holy sites.

  27. VE Day

    WW2 ends in Europe, chemical weapons tests on UK soldiers, Aden's independence struggle

  28. The US Evacuation of Saigon

    In the last days of April 1975 thousands of people were airlifted out of Vietnam

  29. The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

    Operation Eagle Claw, the death of Einstein and the musical Carousel.

  30. The Bloods and Crips Truce

    In April 1992, two Los Angeles gangs signed a cease-fire.

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