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The History Hour Episodes

  1. Women and the Iranian Revolution

    How the 1979 Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives, plus Solzhenitsyn's widow.

  2. The Georgian-Abkhaz War

    Conflict in the south Caucasus, Beatlemania, plus breaking codes with Colossus.

  3. WW2, Holocaust and Rome

    The fate of Rome's Jews, plus the Cairo Fire, and the last American diplomat in Cuba

  4. World's First Nuclear-Powered Submarine

    USS Nautilus launched; serial killer Ted Bundy killed; voluntary starvation for science.

  5. The First Battle of Fallujah

    US assault on Fallujah; WW2's Battle of Monte Cassino; and Jimi Hendrix's girlfriend

  6. The Impeachment of Bill Clinton

    Sex and the American presidency; Mother Teresa; and the story behind 12 Years A Slave.

  7. Zapatista Rebels in Mexico

    An indigenous revolt in Chiapas; the traitor Lord Haw Haw; Iran protests; and Edith Piaf.

  8. Grand Theft Auto

    The game that shocked the world; interned in Manila in WW2, the real Gorillas in the Mist

  9. International Space Station

    A new era in space exploration, East Timorese fighters and the kidnap of Sinatra's son.

  10. The Struggle Against Apartheid

    Key moments in the ANC's campaign to overturn South Africa's racist Apartheid policies

  11. Mandela and the Rivonia Trial

    Nelson Mandela's trial in 1963; Vietnam's Boat People; nuns murdered in 80s El Salvador

  12. The First Panda in America

    How a socialite brought a panda to New York; plus Conakry invaded, WW2 Allies and bikes

  13. Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR

    The man who shot JFK - in the USSR; the Jonestown mass suicide; the first Doctor Who.

  14. Dustbowl

    How dust storms changed America in the 1930s, Armistice Day and a deadly boxing match.

  15. Degenerate Art and the Nazis

    Hitler's hatred of modern art, the death of Dylan Thomas, and marching in the Sahara.

  16. Hurricane Mitch

    Massive storms in Central America, Indira Gandhi's murder, plus Black Monday on Wall St.

  17. Spying for the Stasi

    Betrayal in East Berlin, Burundi's civil war heroine and Sydney Opera House opens.

  18. The Death of Grenada's Revolution

    The day Maurice Bishop was killed, escaping a Nazi death camp, and an ANC hero walks free

  19. Thomas Sankara African Revolutionary

    The inspiring African leader; Jews flee Nazi Denmark; and exotic dancer Josephine Baker.

  20. Israel's Secret Nuclear Weapons

    Israel's nuclear whistle-blower; Mao's American comrade; and Betty Ford gets sober

  21. The Kinsey Report into Female Sexuality

    Dr Kinsey's 1953 sex report; plus Chinese re-education and the Siege of Vukovar.

  22. Iraqi Chemical Attacks

    Gas attacks on Iraqi Kurds, secret Middle East talks, plus Duke Ellington in Kabul

  23. Military Coup in Chile

    Forty years since Pinochet's coup; the Alabama church bombing in 1963; and Project Tiger

  24. Special Operations Executive

    How the British trained spies in WWII, plus Jack the Ripper and war in Eritrea.

  25. Remembering Martin Luther King Jr

    THAT speech, plus murder in Mexico, Aboriginals on strike in Australia and Krakatoa

  26. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    Murder in the Philippines; the crushing of the Prague Spring; and human shields in Iraq.

  27. The Omagh Bombing

    Worst single attack in N. Ireland conflict; scientists flee Nazi Germany; Stanley Kubrick

  28. Burmese Protests

    The 1988 Burma uprising; the Nagasaki bomb; and a US model breaks the colour barrier.

  29. Jimmy Hoffa and the Mob

    The death of the union boss; a World War II shark attack; and a soap opera grips India.

  30. The End of the Korean War

    Sixty years since the Korean war ended, plus life with Joseph Kony and the start of AA

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