History Undercover

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1997
1997x1
The Search for Alexander the Great
Episode overview
04, 1997
Archaeologist Liana Souvaltzis searches for the tomb of Alexander the Great.
1997x2
The Hidden Treasure of the Templars
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11, 1997
A French priest finds clues to the treasure of the Knights Templar.
1997x3
Leonardo's Shroud
Episode overview
25, 1997
Some say the Shroud of Turin was created by Leonardo da Vinci.
1997x4
A Rough Crossing
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22, 1997
In the summer of 1940, eight British children flee to safety in Canada.
1997x5
The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen and Buchenwald
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29, 1997
Allied airmen shot down over France recall atrocities at Buchenwald.
1997x6
Haig: The Unknown Soldier
Episode overview
06, 1997
Field Marshal Douglas Haig is lambasted as "the butcher of the Somme."
1997x7
Piercing the Reich: American Spies Inside Nazi Germany
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17, 1997
The U.S. secret service infiltrates Germany to capture Hitler.
1997x8
Hitler: The Final Chapter
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01, 1997
Adolf Hitler's final days.
1997x9
Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Episode overview
05, 1997
Documents offer evidence of military opposition to Truman's decision to drop an A-bomb on Hiroshima.
1997x10
Beria: Stalin's Creature
Episode overview
26, 1997
Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's chief of the secret police is profiled.
1997x11
Hess: An Edge of Conspiracy
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02, 1997
Some think the last prisoner in Spandau was Rudolf Hess' double.
1997x12
Spying for Love
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18, 1997
In the 1970s, East Germany's secret service penetrates West Germany's government.
1997x13
Evidence of Vikings
Episode overview
09, 1997
The Viking's navigational system.
1997x14
The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: The Crime That Won't Go Away
Episode overview
09, 1997
Bruno Hauptmann's trial for the Lindbergh kidnapping causes a media frenzy.
1997x15
Before Columbus
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16, 1997
New evidence suggests others may have discovered North America before Christopher Columbus.
1997x16
The Last Mass Execution
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23, 1997
Seven German prisoners of war are hanged in August 1945 after a U.S. trial.
1997x17
The Jazz Age
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26, 1997
The "Roaring '20s."
1997x18
The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
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30, 1997
New information arises about the Spanish Inquisition.
1997x19
Human Torpedoes: The Kamikaze
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13, 1997
With the kamikaze, Japan turns suicide into military strategy.
1997x20
Kovno Ghetto: A Buried History
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20, 1997
The Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.
1997x21
Roswell: An Alien Obsession
Episode overview
04, 1997
The debate over a possible UFO crash in 1947 Roswell, N.M.