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America's Hidden Stories

New tech is revealing secrets from America’s past, including Nazi-funded election tampering, a big-budget KKK movie, George Washington’s first love, and more.
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  1. S2 E1 - Hitler’s US Election Plot

    October 25, 2020
    44min
    TV-PG
    Recently discovered documents reveal a secret Nazi-American plot to rig the 1940 election and ultimately keep the U.S. out of WWII.
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  2. S2 E2 - The Klan Makes a Movie

    January 10, 2021
    44min
    TV-14
    A film historian discovers fragments from an old silent movie that suggest it was from a film produced by the Ku Klux Klan.
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  3. S2 E3 - Madam President

    January 17, 2021
    44min
    TV-PG
    Newly uncovered documents suggest Edith Wilson effectively became America’s first female president after Woodrow Wilson suffered a major stroke.
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  4. S2 E4 - Vampires in America

    January 24, 2021
    44min
    TV-PG
    A series of gruesome, 19th century grave exhumations in America’s Northeast are believed by many to have been a method of killing vampires
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  5. S2 E5 - Southern Women Union Spies

    January 31, 2021
    44min
    TV-PG
    New evidence supports a Civil War legend that a freed female slave and a society lady in Virginia acted as spies for the Union.
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  6. S2 E6 - George Washington's Secret Love

    February 14, 2021
    44min
    TV-PG
    We investigate the rumored romance between George Washington and a New York Heiress and the role she may have played in shaping America’s destiny.
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