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The History Hour Episodes

  1. Denmark's Inuit Experiment

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

  2. The Eichmann Tapes

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

  3. The Heysel Stadium Disaster

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

  4. Archbishop Romero of San Salvador

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

  5. Siege of The Church of the Nativity

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

  6. VE Day

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

  7. The US Evacuation of Saigon

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

  8. The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

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

  9. The Bloods and Crips Truce

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

  10. The 鈥楧eath of a Princess鈥� film

    The TV film which caused a diplomatic crisis, Idi Amin鈥檚 downfall and riots in the USA

  11. The 1943 Bengal Famine

    Millions die of famine in British-ruled India, US Marshall Plan & Ireland bans smoking

  12. The History of the Black Box

    Australian David Warren invented flight recorders which give clues to why planes crash.

  13. Golda Meir

    Israel's first woman prime minister; Escaping East Berlin; America's biggest art heist.

  14. The Mysterious Death of an MP in Kenya

    JM Kariuki's murder in Kenya plus Jackie Kennedy's secret romance with Aristotle Onassis

  15. The German Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The Nazis invade Czechoslovakia, being Stalin's interpreter and the real Von Trapp family

  16. The battle for Iwo Jima

    The fight for the Pacific island in WW2; the looting of Benin's bronzes; and a CIA mole.

  17. The Murder of Daniel Pearl

    The killing of the US journalist in Pakistan, Martha Gellhorn, and the Bee Gees.

  18. The Sophiatown Removals

    How the South African government destroyed a mixed-race suburb, plus Dresden and Minamata

  19. The Conflict is Over

    Secret peace talks in Northern Ireland, McDonald's opens in Moscow, and Bertrand Russell

  20. Escaping a Nazi train to Auschwitz

    The boy who escaped a Nazi death train plus America's first black presidential candidate

  21. US Drone War

    A US drone operator speaks out, Patrice Lumumba, plus football hooligans and Al Capone

  22. Somalia's Rural Literacy Campaign

    Teaching nomads in Somalia, the WWII Raoul Wallenberg mystery, and Agatha Christie dies

  23. Evidence of the Big Bang

    An unexpected discovery to prove the Big Bang Theory, Guantanamo opens and Prague spring

  24. The Biggest Rock Concert Ever

    Rod Stewart remembers Rio, Portugal's Casa Pia scandal, plus the first Big Brother.

  25. The Battle of the Bulge

    Hitler's last gamble, the 1914 Christmas truce, a pirate DJ at sea, and peace in Nepal

  26. Cuba Special

    The USA is to normalise relations with Cuba - we look back at their troubled relationship

  27. The Hunt for BRCA2

    The search for a key 'cancer gene', Miles Davis' Kind of Blue and the Kyoto conference

  28. Britain's First Woman MP

    The remarkable Lady Astor, Hong Kong's 1967 riots, Lebanon's civil war and US free speech

  29. The Destruction of the Bridge at Mostar

    The Bridge at Mostar, Australia's rabbit plague, India's Eton and Kraftwerk

  30. The Nuremberg Trials

    The last Nazi prosecutor, priests murdered in El Salvador, Mitterand's secret daughter

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