America: Facts vs. Fiction

  • Premiered: Jul 2013
  • Episodes: 67
  • Followers: 4
  • Ended
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  • Tuesday at 21
  • Documentary History

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Season 2
2x1
Fool's Gold
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Oct 07, 2014
Little-known but true facts are revealed about the California Gold Rush and the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
2x2
Last Man Standing
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Oct 07, 2014
The truth behind Davy Crockett's death at the Alamo in 1836; Army officer George Armstrong Custer faces a dilemma he cannot win at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
2x3
Lost at Sea
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Oct 14, 2014
The truth about what pirates really did with their treasure; strange disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle are explained.
2x4
Booze and Bullets
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Oct 21, 2014
Surprising truths about Prohibition and infamous figures of the Roaring Twenties and 1930s, including gangster John Dillinger and outlaw duo Bonnie and Clyde.
2x5
Patton and Grant
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Oct 28, 2014
The truth about America's greatest generals is obscured by myth. Learn that George Patton's nickname 'Blood and Guts' doesn't mean what you might think and that Ulysses S. Grant's reputation as a drunk and a butcher is undeserved.
2x6
Red, White and True?
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Nov 04, 2014
Myths and misconceptions surround our most revered patriotic symbols. Learn how the Statue of Liberty was originally intended to stand in Egypt, how the American Flag wasn't designed by Betsy Ross, and that Mount Rushmore is actually uncompleted.
2x7
Wartime Rosies
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Nov 18, 2014
The truth about women during World War II goes way beyond Rosie in the Riveter.
2x8
Masters of Illusion
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Nov 25, 2014
What we think we know about America's showmen is more myth, than fact. Harry Houdini didn't die escaping from his famous torture cell - and how P.T. Barnum doubled his profits by creating doubt about the authenticity of his own exhibits.
2x9
Seeing isn't Believing
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Dec 02, 2014
Developing a deeper story based on photos and footage from the Civil War, Great Depression, and World War 2.
2x10
What Happens in Vegas...
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Dec 09, 2014
Myths obscure the truth about Las Vegas. In this episode of America: Facts vs. Fiction, learn that gambling wasn’t the first enterprise to pour billions into Nevada’s economy - and that Hoover Dam’s concrete hasn’t finished hardening.
2x11
Conquering the Sky
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Dec 23, 2014
Pioneering aviators; the myths about the Wright Brothers' airplane; the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
2x12 Season finale
Engineering the Impossible
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Dec 30, 2014
Uncovering great feats of engineering that are clouded by myth.

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