Secrets of the Dead / 2000

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...

Pompei - Le verità nascoste / 20197.01 voti

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

Secrets of the Dead / 1999

Scientists seek to uncover celebrated mysteries of the past in this occasional British series.

Secrets of the Dead: Graveyard of the Giant Beasts / 2016

A mining operation in Cerrejon, Northern Colombia revealed a treasure trove of fossils from animals that lived ten million years after the KT extinction that killed the dinosaurs. Surprisingly, enormous reptiles were dominate. Scientists investigate who was the apex predator of the era - Titanoboa, a quarter ton giant snake five times bigger than the largest anaconda, or a similarly giant crocodilian with an incredibly deadly bite force. —David Foss

Secrets of the Dead : Secrets of Spanish Florida / 2017

Secrets of Spanish Florida – A Secrets of the Dead Special uncovers one story of America’s past that never made it into textbooks. Follow some of America’s leading archaeologists, maritime scientists, and historians as they share the story of Florida’s earliest settlers. It’s a story that has taken more than 450 years to reveal.

Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead with Bettany Hughes / 2021

Bettany Hughes draws on her investigative skills and the latest technology to offer a new insight into the lives and deaths of the victims of one of the worst natural disasters in history. As well as travelling to Pompeii and Herculaneum, she sets up her own incident room, complete with DNA tests, to learn more about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 72AD

Secrets of the Dead: The Real Trojan Horse / 2015

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 of fiction? Or did the Greeks really trick the Trojans into defeat with a giant wooden horse that concealed enough soldiers to reduce the powerful city to rubble? Are the city of Troy and the familiar story of the Trojan War as recounted in Homer’s ancient Greek epic poem, the Iliad, fact or fiction?

Secrets of the Dead: The Phoenicians / 2000

After their culture was destroyed in 146 BC, the Phoenicians were forever marred as monsters. But were they truly evil, or victims of propaganda?

Autopsy 6 - Secrets of the Dead /

The sixth installment of HBO's popular series examining six cases in which forensic science has helped detectives track down criminals that might have otherwise gone unpunished.

Secrets of the Dead: Aztec Massacre / 2008

Historians have long believed that the Aztecs worshipped the Spanish conquistadors and barely resisted their crusade. But as this surprising documentary reveals, we may need to rethink our assumptions about the ancient civilization. Recent finds near Mexico City -- where more than 550 bodies, a portion of which seem European, have been unearthed -- are sparking theories that the Aztecs fought back and may have sacrificed the invaders to the gods.

Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files / 2019

The Roman emperor Nero is considered one of history's greatest criminals - a cruel, insane, and brutal ruler. Secrets of the Dead: The Nero Files investigates Nero's reign with the help of criminal psychologist Thomas Müller.

Secrets of the Dead : The Silver Pharaoh / 2010

Secrets of the Dead examines the the tomb of Psusennes I an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Intermediate Period whose burial place was discovered shortly before World War II.

Secrets of the Dead: D-Day: The Ultimate Conflict / 2004

Using epic-scale drama to tell a factual story, this film reveals how the D-Day attack of World War II was planned and executed, not only by the greatest military minds and fearless soldiers but also by a maverick collection of inventors toiling away behind the scenes. Features painstaking reconstructions, interviews and archive footage that detail the incredible minds and machines behind the greatest amphibious invasion in history.

Deadly Secrets: The Lost Children of Dozier / 2016

The Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida was supposed to be a place where troubled kids could go to straighten out their lives. What these boys found there would instead leave lasting scars and dozens of unexplained deaths. In Deadly Secrets, we follow the work of forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle from the University of South Florida, who has made it her personal mission to uncover the truth behind these mysterious deaths and disappearances. With unprecedented access to family members, photography and old records, Dr. Kimmerle and reporter Ben Montgomery expose the truth behind Dozier's missing boys, providing closure to families that have been haunted by this nightmare for decades.

Secrets of the Dead: Amazon Warrior Women / 2004

Ancient Greek lore tells of the existence of a tribe of giant, conquering women called Amazons. In this PBS documentary, archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball explores the myths, mysteries and historical evidence of these ancient warrior women. Davis-Kimball tries to prove the stories true by determining whether archaeological finds -- ancient human remains discovered in Russia -- can be linked to the Greek legend.

The Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls / 1999

Even as scientists work diligently to authenticate the Dead Sea Scrolls, a historical and momentous find for archaeologists, questions surface about their true origin. Who wrote them? Did they truly know Jesus? And what do the scrolls mean for modern-day Christianity? This riveting documentary aims to find the answers to these and many other questions and shares new information about this important archaeological artifact.

Secrets of the Dead : Secrets of Spanish Florida / 2021

Secrets of the Dead - Shroud of Christ? /

In a central part of Turn Cathedral is an elaborate, baroque shrine housing one of the Catholic Church's most precious and controversial artifacts: a 15-foot-long piece of cloth known as the Turn Shroud. Its surface bears, in faint shades of brown, the unmistakable image of a man. For its dedicated believers, known as the "Shroudies," this image is that of Jesus Christ himself, burnt onto the cloth upon his miraculous resurrection image from the dead. But the debate over the shroud's origins has raged furiously since its first documented appearance in Lirey, France, in the 1350s.

Manson Kilmore: The Night Caller of Coal Miners Holler Part1: Deadly Secrets /

In 1975 a series of bloody murders were taking place in a small SW Virginia coal mining town and a section of the town known as coal miners holler.

A Deadly Secret / 2004

Lian Cheng Jue is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel A Deadly Secret. The series was first broadcast on NMTV in China in 2004.