Secrets of the Dead (2000)

Secrets of the Dead

Part detective story, part true-life drama, long-running series explores some of the most iconic moments in history to debunk myths and shed new light on past events. Using the latest investigative techniques, forensic science and historical examination, it shatters accepted wisdom, challenges prevailing ideas, overturns existing hypotheses, spotlights forgotten mysteries, and ultimately rewrites history.

Secrets of the Dead

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Season 8

Season 8

Season 9

Season 9

Season 10

Season 10

Season 11

Season 11

Season 12

Season 12

Season 13

Season 13

Season 14

Season 14

Season 15

Season 15

Season 16

Season 16

Season 17

Season 17

Season 18

Season 18

Season 19

Season 19

Season 20

Season 20

Season 21

Season 21

Season 22

Season 22

Episodes season 0

  • 0x1

    Secrets of spanish florida

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Catastrophe (1)

  • 1x2

    Catastrophe (2)

  • 1x3

    The lost vikings

  • 1x4

    What happened to the hindenburg?

  • 1x5

    Cannibalism in the canyon

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Witches curse

  • 2x2

    Murder at stonehenge

  • 2x3

    Death at jamestown

  • 2x4

    Day of the zulu

  • 2x5

    Tomb of christ

  • 2x6

    The syphilis enigma

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Search for the first human

  • 3x2

    Mystery of the black death

  • 3x3

    Titanic's ghosts

  • 3x4

    The great fire of rome

  • 3x5

    Tragedy at the pole

  • 3x6

    Bombing nazi dams

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Blood red roses

  • 4x2

    Bridge on the river kwai

  • 4x3

    Killer flu

  • 4x4

    Shroud of christ?

  • 4x5

    D-day

  • 4x6

    Amazon warrior women

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    The hunt for nazi scientists

  • 5x2

    Gangland graveyard

  • 5x3

    Voyage of the courtesans

  • 5x4

    The sinking of the andrea doria

  • 5x5

    Umbrella assassin

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    Dogfight over guadalcanal

  • 6x2

    Battle for the bible

  • 6x3

    Herculaneum uncovered

  • 6x4

    Headless romans

  • 6x5

    Irish escape

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Aztec massacre

  • 7x2

    Escape from auschwitz

Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    Doping for gold

  • 8x2

    Sinking atlantis

  • 8x3

    Executed in error

  • 8x4

    Blackbeard's lost ship

Episodes season 9

  • 9x1

    Michelangelo revealed

  • 9x2

    Airmen and the headhunters

  • 9x3

    Mumbai massacre

  • 9x4

    Japanese supersub

  • 9x5

    Churchill's deadly decision

  • 9x6

    Deadliest battle

Episodes season 10

  • 10x1

    The silver pharaoh

  • 10x2

    Slave ship mutiny

  • 10x3

    Lost ships of rome

Episodes season 11

  • 11x1

    Lost in the amazon

  • 11x2

    China's terracotta warriors

  • 11x3

    The world’s biggest bomb

Episodes season 12

  • 12x1

    The man who saved the world

  • 12x2

    Bugging hitler's soldiers

  • 12x3

    Death on the railroad

  • 12x4

    Cavemen cold case

  • 12x5

    Ultimate tut

  • 12x6

    Bones of the buddha

Episodes season 13

  • 13x1

    Jfk: one pm central standard time

  • 13x2

    The lost diary of dr. livingstone

  • 13x3

    Carthage's lost warriors

  • 13x4

    The lost gardens of babylon

  • 13x5

    The mona lisa mystery

  • 13x6

    Dick cavett's watergate

  • 13x7

    Resurrecting richard iii

Episodes season 14

  • 14x1

    Ben franklin’s bones

  • 14x2

    Jfk & lbj: a time for greatness

  • 14x3

    The real trojan horse

Episodes season 15

  • 15x1

    Vampire legend

  • 15x2

    Jamestown's dark winter

  • 15x3

    The alcatraz escape

  • 15x4

    Cleopatra's lost tomb

  • 15x5

    Teotihuacan's lost kings

Episodes season 16

  • 16x1

    After stonehenge

  • 16x2

    Graveyard of the giant beasts

  • 16x3

    Van gogh's ear

  • 16x4

    Nero's sunken city

  • 16x5

    Leonardo: the man who saved science

Episodes season 17

  • 17x1

    Scanning the pyramids

  • 17x2

    Hannibal in the alps

  • 17x3

    The woman in the iron coffin

  • 17x4

    The nero files

  • 17x5

    King arthur's lost kingdom

  • 17x6

    Egypt's darkest hour

  • 17x7

    World war speed

Episodes season 18

  • 18x1

    Galileo's moon

  • 18x2

    Bombing auschwitz

  • 18x3

    Building notre dame

  • 18x4

    Viking warrior queen

  • 18x5

    Abandoning the titanic

  • 18x6

    Gangster's gold

Episodes season 19

  • 19x1

    Magellan’s crossing

  • 19x2

    Lady sapiens

  • 19x3

    The first circle of stonehenge

  • 19x4

    Hindenburg’s fatal flaws

  • 19x5

    A samurai in the vatican

  • 19x6

    The caravaggio heist

Episodes season 20

  • 20x1

    Archaeology at althorp

  • 20x2

    Last days of pompeii

  • 20x3

    The end of the romans

  • 20x4

    Decoding hieroglyphics

  • 20x5

    Hidden in the amazon

  • 20x6

    The sunken basilica

  • 20x7

    Jurassic fortunes

Episodes season 21

  • 21x1

    Eiffel's race to the top

  • 21x2

    Death in britannia

  • 21x3

    The princes in the tower

  • 21x4

    Returning to babylon

  • 21x5

    Mozart's sister

  • 21x6

    The herculaneum scrolls

Episodes season 22

  • 22x1

    The civil war's lost massacre

  • 22x2

    Field of vampires

  • 22x3

    Lost treasures of angkor – the discovery

  • 22x4

    Lost treasures of angkor – king's gold

  • 22x5

    Plunderer: the life and times of a nazi art thief (part one)

  • 22x6

    Plunderer: the life and times of a nazi art thief (part two)

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