The History Hour Episodes Available now
Japan history special
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the first bullet train, plus other historical moments
Darfur's ethnic war
Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.
When the Taliban ruled Kabul
Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine
North Korea's 1990s famine
How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea
Supernatural sightings
UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.
LGBT special
The Stonewall Riot, China's "Cooperative Marriages" and LGBT activism in Ivory Coast
The Confederate flag and America’s battle over race
One African-American woman’s act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.
When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections
The war on drugs
US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971
Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.
