America's Hidden Stories

Little-known chapters of American history are explored, involving the CIA, African Americans in the Wild West, a scrapped naval super weapon, and more.
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  1. S3 E1 - The Osage Murders
    May 28, 2023
    45min
    7+
    A member of the Osage Nation investigates the series of murders and unexplained deaths that struck the oil-rich tribe in the 1920s.
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  2. S3 E2 - Birth of Shadow Ops
    June 4, 2023
    45min
    13+
    A look at the U.S. clandestine intelligence team of the 1980s called FOG (Field Operations Group) and how it paved the way for today’s special ops forces.
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  3. S3 E3 - Forged in Slavery
    June 11, 2023
    44min
    7+
    The discovery of a pre-Civil War cemetery of enslaved ironworkers provides new insights into the role African-Americans played in the Industrial Revolution.
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  4. S3 E4 - CIA Museum Declassified
    June 24, 2023
    44min
    7+
    An exclusive tour of the CIA’s private museum reveals some of the agency’s most remarkable spycraft and the daring missions on which they were used.
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  5. S3 E5 - Lost Airship
    July 2, 2023
    44min
    7+
    A look at the rise and fall of the airship and the U.S. military’s failed attempts to make it the future of warfare in the 1920s and ‘30s.
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