Secrets of the Dead
Date de parution : 15 mai 2001
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Catastrophe (1) An exploration of the theory of David Keys that a "catastrophe" in the mid sixth century caused major changes in the world's weather for the next... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Catastrophe (2) An exploration of the theory of David Keys that a "catastrophe" in the mid sixth century caused major changes in the world's weather for the next... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | The Lost Vikings This program trys to discover why a colony of Vikings, after nearly four hundred years of settlement, would disappear suddenly from the coast of... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | What Happened to the Hindenburg An examination of what really caused the explosion of the Hindenburg zeppelin. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Cannibalism in the Canyon The Anasazi people of the American Southwest were once thought to be a model society, but now it seems they may have practiced ritual cannibalism.... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | What Sank the Mary Rose? A team of experts from the fields of shipbuilding, science, history and archaeology gather to try and pin down why Henry VIII's flagship, The Mary... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Witches' Curse They suffered from delusions, hysteria, convulsions, and trances. Was an LSD-like organic fungus responsible? | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Murder at Stonehenge Was Stonehenge an ancient observatory or a place of sacrifice? | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Death at Jamestown British colonists expected to discover riches, but instead they found death by malnutrition, hostile natives, disease -- and arsenic? | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Day of the Zulu Join an investigation of the loss of 1,300 British soldiers during an 1879 invasion of Zululand. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Tomb of Christ Explore what may be Christ's tomb using infra-red thermography and the scientific technique of photogrammetry. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 6 | The Syphilis Enigma Follow a team of international scientists who are using science to identify the origins of syphilis | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Search for the First Human Ancient hominid fossils ignite controversy over the origins of humankind. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Mystery of the Black Death Did a genetic mutation save an English village from the Great Plague -- and could it help save the world from the scourge of AIDS? | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Titanic's Ghosts Almost a hundred years later, investigators are employing new DNA forensic techniques to name the unidentified victims of the Titanic disaster. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Great Fire of Rome Experts explore ancient Rome's great fire and question who was responsible -- the emperor Nero or the Christians he blamed the disaster on. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Tragedy at the Pole In March 1912, on their return trip from the South Pole, Captain Robert F. Scott and his team froze to death in Antarctica just 11 miles from a... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Bombing Nazi Dams In 1943, a British aircraft designer developed a weapon that would allow the Allies to deliver a blow to the very heart of Nazi Germany. | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Blood Red Roses The Battle of Towton in North Yorkshire, fought during the Wars of the Roses, was reputedly the bloodiest battle ever seen on English soil. In 1996... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Blood Red Roses Lots of bodies are found in a grave at the site of Britain's bloodiest battle during the famous Wars of the Roses - The House of Lancaster against... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Bridge on the River Kwai In 1942, the Japanese army forced 200,000 Allied soldiers to build a railway in Burma; 21 months later a new weapon destroyed its tracks. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 3 | Killer Flu In 1918, a flu pandemic ripped through the global population with such speed and virulence that by the end of the following year an estimated 40... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Shroud of Christ? Could the Shroud of Turin actually be stained with the blood of Jesus Christ? Experts debate the origin of a prized religious relic. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 5 | D-Day For two years they planned the now-famous amphibious operation. On June 6, 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy. | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 6 | Amazon Warrior Women View the excavation of a warrior priestess grave and use forensic science to identify the modern descendants of these powerful women. | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 1 | The Hunt for Nazi Scientists Days after D-Day, Allied forces joined together for a different kind of mission. Through rare footage, eyewitness testimonies, and real-life... | |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Gangland Graveyard On October 6, 2004, FBI agents began digging up a Queens swamp in the hopes of finding the remains of the man who killed John Gotti's son. Instead,... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Voyage of the Courtesans In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent... | |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 4 | The Sinking of the Andrea Doria An examination of the evidence to find out just what really happened when this luxury cruise liner sank in 1956. Recounts the story of how the... |
| Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Umbrella Assassin Investigate the deceptive world of espionage during the Cold War. The KGB used one of the most ingenious and unobtrusive weapons to murder an... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Dogfight Over Guadalcanal A pivotal moment in World War II, one of the most legendary and best documented dogfights in Air Force history is reconstructed. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Battle for the Bible The story behind the creation of the King James Bible from mysterious and inaccessible Latin texts to a book for the common english speaking people. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Herculaneum Uncovered On August 24th, A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the city of Herculaneum. This program documents the archaeological re-discovery of that... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 4 | Headless Romans This documentary attempts to explain the mystery behind an unusual ancient burial site unearthed in England, and it's connection with a Roman Emperor. | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 5 | Irish Escape Arrested in 1866, the Fremantle Six escape prison ten years later aboard a whaling ship the Catalpa. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Aztec Massacre A recent archaeological discovery of more than 550 bodies near Mexico City suggests that the Aztecs were much more resistant to the Spanish... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 2 | Escape from Auschwitz The story of Rudolph Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, two young Slovak Jews who escaped the Auschwitz death camp. They immediately wrote a detailed account... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 1 | Doping for Gold In the 1970s, female East German athletes came from nowhere to dominate international sport. But behind their success lay a horrifying secret.... | |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 2 | Sinking Atlantis Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Executed in Error In 1910, an American doctor named Hawley Crippen was convicted in England of poisoning and dismembering his wife. The vicious murder—and execution... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 4 | Blackbeard's Lost Ship Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, was the most notorious pirate of his day. At the height of his rein, he commanded a fleet of four ships and a crew... |
| Saison 9 - épisode 1 | Michelangelo Revealed More than five centuries ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Papacy commissioned him to create many of its most... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 2 | Airmen and the Headhunters A tribe in Borneo protects a shot-down U.S. bomber crew from Japanese occupiers during World War II. The local missionaries, who converted the tribe... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 3 | Mumbai Massacre Accounts of the survivors of the indiscriminate terrorist massacres in Mumbai by Islamic Extremests in November 2008 and how the news media aided... | |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 4 | Japanese SuperSub During World War 2, Japan developed a super-submarine capable of launching bomber aircraft as a strategic weapon to carry the conflict to the United... |
| Saison 9 - épisode 5 | Churchill's Deadly Decision In the summer of 1940 Germany was poised to seize the French fleet and Hitler's threat to invade Britain could become a reality. Winston Churchill... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 6 | Deadliest Battle The Battle of Stalingrad, the deadliest single battle ever seen, has been lauded as a shining example of Stalin's military genius, and altered the... | |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 1 | The Silver Pharaoh Tanis, Egypt, circa 1939. On the brink of World War II, an excavation team led by French archaeologist Pierre Montet unearthed an intact royal... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 2 | Slave Ship Mutiny Three disparate Capetowners reveal a long-forgotten, dramatic slave ship revolt en route from Madagascar to South Africa. About half of Cape Town's... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 3 | Lost Ships of Rome In 2009, archaeologists discovered an underwater graveyard of five Roman shipwrecks off the coast of Ventotene, a small Italian island with a... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 1 | Lost in the Amazon On April 20, 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his elder son Jack Fawcett and Jack’s lifelong friend, Raleigh Rimmell, departed from Cuiabá, the capital... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 2 | China's Terracotta Warriors The life-sized terracotta warriors of China are known throughout the world. This clay army of 8,000 including infantry, archers, generals and... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 3 | The World's Biggest Bomb Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists embarked on a perilous race to see who could build and detonate the world’s largest bomb. The... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 1 | The Man Who Saved the World In October 1962, the world held its breath. On the edge of the Caribbean Sea, just a few miles from the Florida coast, the two great superpowers... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 2 | Bugging Hitler's Soldiers In the aftermath of World War II, ordinary German soldiers claimed they knew nothing about the Holocaust. They blamed all its atrocities on the SS.... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 3 | Death on the Railroad Forensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months after arriving in Pennsylvania to work on the... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 4 | Caveman Cold Case A tomb of 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidron, a remote, mountainous region of Northern Spain, leads to a compelling... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 5 | Ultimate Tut Secrets of the Dead is part detective story, part true-life drama that unearths evidence from around the world, challenging prevailing ideas and... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 6 | Bones of the Buddha Historian Charles Allen investigates whether ash and bone discovered in Northern India in 1898 are remains of the Buddha. |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 1 | JFK: One PM Central Standard Time Fifty years after the tragic shooting of President John F. Kennedy, Secrets of the Dead chronicles minute-by-minute the assassination as it was... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 2 | The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone New forensic technology helps researchers study Dr. David Livingstone's lost diary, which reveals he witnessed the massacre of slaves by their... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 3 | Carthage's Lost Warriors 146 B.C.: Carthage, the proud capital of the vast Carthaginian Empire, is ablaze. Marauding Romans are mercilessly slaughtering and pillaging. Any... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 4 | The Lost Gardens of Babylon Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Hanging Garden of Babylon is the most elusive of these constructions of classical antiquity. While... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 5 | The Mona Lisa Mystery Discover a portrait of a younger and more beautiful Mona Lisa that predated the famous Louvre masterpiece. In September 2012, headline news shook... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 6 | Dick Cavett's Watergate With the exception of the nightly network news shows, no one on television devoted more airtime to Watergate than talk show host Cavett. From 1972... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 7 | Resurrecting Richard III Scientists test the bones of England's fierce King Richard III. |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 1 | Ben Franklin’s Bones In November 1997, when the skeletal remains of at least 28 bodies were unearthed in the basement of an elegant townhouse, police feared it was the... |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 2 | JFK & LBJ: A Time For Greatness For many, President Lyndon B. Johnson is chiefly remembered for escalating the United States military involvement in Vietnam. But his legacy is much... |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 3 | The Real Trojan Horse The Trojan Horse… It was the ultimate sneak attack, bringing a city that would withstood nine years of battle to its knees. But was it simply a work... |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 4 | Vampire Legend Bram Stoker penned his gothic horror “Dracula” in 1887 and popularized the modern vampire myth – but evidence now points to those myths originating... |
| Saison 14 - épisode 5 | Jamestown's Dark Winter The story of the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English colony in the Americas, is seen through the prism of a 14-year-old English girl... | |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 1 | Vampire Legend Bram Stoker penned his gothic horror “Dracula” in 1887 and popularized the modern vampire myth – but evidence now points to those myths originating... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 2 | Jamestown's Dark Winter The story of the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English colony in the Americas, is seen through the prism of a 14-year-old English girl... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 3 | The Alcatraz Escape On June 11, 1962, bank robbers Frank Morris and Clarence & John Anglin launched a patchwork, raincoat raft into the frigid waters of San Francisco... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 4 | Cleopatra's Lost Tomb Dr. Kathleen Martinez searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb in a 35-meter deep underground shaft. |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 5 | Teotihuacán's Lost Kings Scientists explore royal tombs beneath an ancient Mexican city, which may reveal clues about the Teotihuacán culture and its people. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 1 | After Stonehenge Researchers working in secret inside a quarry study the charred remains of an English settlement that dates back 3,000 years. |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 2 | Graveyard of the Giant Beasts Sixty-five million years ago, a giant meteor hit the earth causing a global catastrophe that destroyed an estimated three quarters of the plants and... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 3 | Van Gogh's Ear The night when Vincent van Gogh cut his own ear defines his turbulent life and art. Generations have theorized about what really happened on... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 4 | Nero’s Sunken City Nero’s Sunken City Baiae... An ancient Roman city lost to the same volcanoes that entombed Pompeii. But unlike Pompeii, Baiae sits under water, in... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 5 | Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. New evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 1 | Scanning the Pyramids The only one of the seven wonders of the world still standing, the Great Pyramid of Khufu has fascinated people for centuries. Tracing the origin of... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 2 | Hannibal in the Alps Hannibal, one of history’s most famous generals, achieved what the Romans thought to be impossible. With a vast army of 30,000 troops, 15,000 horses... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 3 | The Woman in the Iron Coffin Follow a team of forensic experts as they investigate the preserved remains of a young African American woman from 19th century New York and reveal... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 4 | The Nero Files Take a closer look at the life and legend of Nero, the infamous Roman emperor, as a forensic profiler attempts to find out what history may have... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 5 | King Arthur's Lost Kingdom Description Archaeological evidence suggests that the legend of King Arthur began in a 5th-century trading village following the departure of the... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 6 | Egypt’s Darkest Hour The discovery of a rare mass grave with the bones of nearly 60 people outside Luxor sends archaeologists on a quest to find out who the remains... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 1 | World War Speed Stories about drug use by Hitler and German forces during World War II have been widely told. What’s less well known is the Allied commanders’... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 2 | Galileo’s Moon When it was published in 1610, Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) set in motion a scientific revolution. Using observations he made of... |
