Brad Meltzer's Decoded
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Brad Meltzer's Decoded

What if everything you learned in history books were only half true? Best-selling author Brad Meltzer separates fact from fiction as he investigates the hidden history and coded truths behind everything from the Statue of Liberty to the dollar bill to the assassination of President Lincoln.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - The White House

    December 1, 2010
    44min
    TV-14
    The team gets to the bottom--literally--of a mystery concerning the cornerstones of our democracy. Laid by the ultra secretive Freemasons, this landmark piece of stone vanished. The search for the White House cornerstone has been on for over 200 years, everyone from Harry Truman to Barbara Bush have looked for it.
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  2. S1 E2 - Secret Presidential Codes

    December 8, 2010
    44min
    TV-14
    The team investigates the secret presidential codes of Thomas Jefferson and how they may be partially responsible for the death of one of the world's greatest explorers, Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame. Meltzer discovers that although the Lewis family has been working for 15 years to exhume his body, the National Parks is preventing the exhumation.
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  3. S1 E3 - Statue of Liberty

    December 15, 2010
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer and his team thought they knew what the Statue of Liberty stood for. But now they learn that America's most powerful icon of freedom might actually be loaded with secret symbols put there by a sinister group bent on world domination.
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  4. S1 E4 - The Lincoln Assassination

    December 22, 2010
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer scours secret clues, symbols and conspiracy theories to unravel some of society's most provocative enigmas.
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  5. S1 E5 - Confederate Gold

    December 29, 2010
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer and his team dig into one of the Civil War's most enduring legends: that millions of dollars' worth of missing gold and silver from the Confederate treasury are still buried in secret hiding places across America.
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  6. S1 E6 - D.B. Cooper

    January 5, 2011
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer and the team jump at the chance to take on one of the FBI's most puzzling unsolved crimes: the 1971 disappearance of airline skyjacker D.B. Cooper, who bailed out of a jetliner at ten thousand feet over Washington state with two parachutes and two hundred thousand dollars in ransom money strapped to his body.
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  7. S1 E7 - 2012

    January 19, 2011
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer and the team race against time to decipher ancient prophecies that warn of worldwide destruction in the year 2012. In fact, Christians, Jews, Muslims and even Native Americans have eerily similar visions as to how the world will end.
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  8. S1 E8 - The President's Inner Circle

    January 26, 2011
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer scours secret clues, symbols and conspiracy theories to unravel some of society's most provocative enigmas.
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  9. S1 E9 - Secret Societies

    January 12, 2011
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer and his team try to penetrate Bohemian Grove, one of America's most tightly guarded gatherings of the rich and powerful. The Decoded team converges on the group's hideaway in a northern California redwood forest to pursue rumors of ritual sacrifice and secret agreements that control the lives of everyday Americans.
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  10. S1 E10 - Apocalypse In Georgia

    February 2, 2011
    44min
    TV-14
    Best-selling author Brad Meltzer and the team search for the true meaning of the mysterious Georgia Guidestones. Often called America's Stonehenge, this granite monument is located on a remote hilltop outside Atlanta. Brad and the team examine the multilingual messages carved into the stones for any clues to the monument's anonymous creator, who's known only by the pseudonym -- J.C. Christian.
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