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1998
1998x4
Movies and the Mob
Episode overview
In 1930 organized crime infiltrates the movie industry.
1998x5
Lenin's Secret Files
Episode overview
Vaults house the Soviet Union's Central Party archives.
1998x6
Hillary and Tenzing: Everest and After
Episode overview
After the 1953 conquest of Everest, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay clash over the celebrity of the incident.
1998x2
Jungle Battle Burma
Episode overview
The story of how General Slim and his British 14th Army finally beat the Japanese in Burma during World War II. Includes the heroic stand at Kohima by British and Indian troops.
1998x7
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
Episode overview
During World War II, 16,000 POWs die building the Bangkok-Rangoon Railway.
1998x8
The African Trade
Episode overview
African participation in the slave trade.
1998x9
The Chair
Episode overview
Edison and Westinghouse each try to have New York adopt the other's "executioner's current."
1998x10
Cover Up! The Sinking of the SS Leopoldville
Episode overview
On Christmas Eve, 1944, a German U-boat sinks the SS Leopoldville with 800 Americans aboard.
1998x3
Duel in the Desert
Episode overview
The story of the duel in the desert between Britain's General Montgomery and Germany's General Rommel during World War Two. The film depicts life for soldiers fighting under harsh conditions.
1998x11
Betrayal: The Story of the USS Pueblo
Episode overview
The crew of the USS Pueblo are captured and tortured by the North Koreans in 1968.