Secrets of the Dead

From PBS and SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Churchill's Deadliest Decision, reveals the darkest side of Britain's Finest Hour.

From PBS and SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Archaeologists, using the hieroglyphs inside the tomb, pieced together the identity of the pharaoh, and further investigation reveals political intrigue, a lost city, and a leader who united a country in turmoil and became the Silver Pharaoh.

From PBS and SECRETS OF THE DEAD - This film tracks the efforts of archaeologists, historians, and slave descendants to discover what happened on the Meermin, how the slaves were able to overpower their captors, and why the ship ended up wrecked on a wild, windswept beach 200 miles east of Cape Town.

From PBS and SECRETS OF THE DEAD - This film follows the team as they explore the sites in detail, salvage artifacts and piece together the history of the ships and why they were lost at Ventotene two thousand years ago.

PBS and SECRETS OF THE DEAD unravels the truth of what happened to famed adventurer Col. Percy Fawcett who went looking for the Lost City of ?Z? ? in the Amazon in 1925 and disappeared in the jungles of Brazil.

From PBS and SECRETS OF THE DEAD - The First Emperor of China was preparing an extravagant tomb for his journey into the afterlife, and decreed that he be protected forever by 8,000 terracotta warriors.

From PBS and SECRETS OF THE DEAD - Beginning in the 1950s, American and Soviet scientists engaged in a dangerous race to see who could build and detonate the world's largest bomb. The results exceeded all expectations about how big a bomb could be built.

From PBS: Did a 19th-century British landowner really discover gold, jewels, and the charred bones of the Lord Buddha in an underground chamber on his estate? Is the site of this 'discovery' the legendary lost city of Kapilavastu, where the real Buddha lived as Prince Siddhartha?

From PBS: Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW's revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII.

From PBS: In 1832, 57 young men from Ireland boarded a ship to America, leaving behind an impoverished country in hopes of a better life. They arrived healthy and ready to work. Eight weeks later all 57 men were dead. Did they all die due to a cholera pandemic as was widely believed? Or, were some of them murdered?

From PBS: A tomb of 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidron, a remote, mountainous region of northern Spain, leads to a compelling investigation to solve a double mystery: How did this group of Neanderthals die? And could the fate of this group help explain Neanderthal extinction?

From PBS: Ninety years ago in Egypt the greatest archaeological find in history was made: The discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb and its golden treasures. But the real story has become shrouded in myth, with many mysteries around the tomb unsolved to this day.