Season 2 (1997)
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Episodes 21
S2 E1 · The Search for Alexander the Great
Archaeologist Liana Souvaltzis searches for the tomb of Alexander the Great.
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S2 E2 · The Hidden Treasure of the Templars
A French priest finds clues to the treasure of the Knights Templar.
Read MoreS2 E3 · Leonardo's Shroud
Some say the Shroud of Turin was created by Leonardo da Vinci.
Read MoreS2 E4 · A Rough Crossing
In the summer of 1940, eight British children flee to safety in Canada.
Read MoreS2 E5 · The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen and Buchenwald
Allied airmen shot down over France recall atrocities at Buchenwald.
Read MoreS2 E6 · Haig: The Unknown Soldier
Field Marshal Douglas Haig is lambasted as "the butcher of the Somme."
Read MoreS2 E7 · Piercing the Reich: American Spies Inside Nazi Germany
Operation Iron Cross planned for a group of U.S. officers to infiltrate Nazi Germany without any underground assistance and capture Adolf Hitler.
Read MoreS2 E8 · Hitler: The Final Chapter
Adolf Hitler's final days.
Read MoreS2 E9 · Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb
Documents offer evidence of military opposition to Truman's decision to drop an A-bomb on Hiroshima.
Read MoreS2 E10 · Beria: Stalin's Creature
Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's chief of the secret police is profiled.
Read MoreS2 E11 · Hess: An Edge of Conspiracy
Some think the last prisoner in Spandau was Rudolf Hess' double.
Read MoreS2 E12 · Spying for Love
In the 1970s, East Germany's secret service penetrates West Germany's government.
Read MoreS2 E13 · The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: The Crime That Won't Go Away
Bruno Hauptmann's trial for the Lindbergh kidnapping causes a media frenzy.
Read MoreS2 E14 · Evidence of Vikings
The Viking's navigational system.
Read MoreS2 E15 · Before Columbus
New evidence suggests others may have discovered North America before Christopher Columbus.
Read MoreS2 E16 · The Last Mass Execution
Seven German prisoners of war are hanged in August 1945 after a U.S. trial.
Read MoreS2 E17 · The Jazz Age
The "Roaring '20s."
Read MoreS2 E18 · The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
New information arises about the Spanish Inquisition.
Read MoreS2 E19 · Human Torpedoes: The Kamikaze
With the kamikaze, Japan turns suicide into military strategy.
Read MoreS2 E20 · Kovno Ghetto: A Buried History
The Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.
Read MoreS2 E21 · Roswell: An Alien Obsession
The debate over a possible UFO crash in 1947 Roswell, N.M.
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