History's Mysteries Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Ghost Ships

Wed, Jul 1, 199842 mins

Ships sailing without a crew? Phantom destroyers? Boats that disappear, then reappear? Ships sailing without a crew? Phantom destroyers? Boats that disappear, then reappear?

Episode 2

Doomed Sisters of the Titanic

Fri, Oct 1, 199945 mins

An investigation into the fateful voyages of the Titanic's two sister ships, the Olympic and the Britannic.

Episode 3

Chain Gangs

Wed, Jul 1, 202646 mins

A history of chain gangs in the United States, from their origins in the late 19th century as a reform for convict labor; through their own corruption; the reform following "I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang" (1932); their ending in the 1960s; and their rebirth in the 1990s.

Episode 4

The True Story of Gladiators

Tue, May 1, 200145 mins

They began as slaves, prisoners of war, the damned of ancient Roman society. Yet a few would become wealthy and famous--the sports stars of their day.

Episode 5

Cain and Abel: A Murder Mystery

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 6

Shark Attack 1916

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

In July 1916 a lone Great White left its usual deep-ocean habitat and headed in the direction of the New Jersey shoreline. There, near the towns of Beach Haven and Spring Lake--and, incredibly, a farming community eleven miles inland--the most ferocious and unpredictable of predators began a deadly rampage: the first shark attacks on swimmers in U.S. history.

Episode 7

America's Stonehenge

Tue, Jul 17, 200160 mins

Episode 8

The Holy Grail

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 9

The Civil War Draft Riots

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

In 1863, anti-conscription riots erupt in New York.

Episode 10

Five Points Gangs

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

The criminal history of the infamous Manhattan slum that became a breeding ground for American gangsterism is chronicled from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. Native American gangs were displaced by successive waves of Irish, Jewish, and Italian racketeers and the criminal careers of such colorful figures as Tim Sullivan, Paul Kelly, Beansie Rosenthal, and Al Capone are highlighted.

Episode 11

Hoax of the Ages: Piltdown Man

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 12

Roswell: Secrets Unveiled

Thu, Jul 1, 199942 mins

History's Mysteries looks at the Roswell UFO crash and presents the definitive government explanation for the incident.

Episode 13

Spies of the Revolutionary War

Thu, Jul 1, 199960 mins

How Washington's spies Nathan Hale, John Honeyman, Benjamin Tallmadge, his spy network in New York known as the Culper Ring, and British spies Thomas Hickey, John Andre and Benedict Arnold played key roles in the Revolutionary War.

Episode 14

Discharged Without Honor: The Brownsville Raid

Mon, Feb 1, 199950 mins

This program is part of the popular series from the History Channel that investigates some of civilization's unsolved mysteries and controversies. This episode investigates a controversial action taken by President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1906, a street shooting occurred in Brownsville, TX. Amid allegations that the culprits were black soldiers in the 1st Battalion of the 25th Infantry, Roosevelt took the unprecedented action of discharging without honor all 167 men. The documentary weighs old and newly discovered evidence in the case, using archival accounts and photographs and commentary by experts.

Episode 15

The Great Wall

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 16

The First Detective

Thu, Jul 1, 199946 mins

Episode 17

History of Sports: Games of Combat

Wed, Dec 1, 199942 mins

From the earliest recorded references of the fighting sports to a modern octagon, where combatants beat each other to a bloody pulp.

Episode 18

History of Sports: Taming the Games

Thu, Dec 2, 1999

Episode 19

The Man in the Iron Mask

Wed, Jul 1, 202643 mins

In a mystery that still baffles historians 300 years after the event, French King Louis XIV orders a prisoner shut away for 34 years.

Episode 20

The True Story of Marco Polo

Wed, Jul 1, 202644 mins

Episode 21

The True Story of Robin Hood

Wed, Jul 1, 202660 mins

Episode 22

River Pirates

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 23

Madam President

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 24

The Truth About Science Fiction

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 26

Library of Alexandria

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 27

The Maya

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 28

Oracle at Delphi

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 29

England's Theaters of Blood

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 30

Ancient Inventions

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 31

Dragons

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 32

Miracles

Thu, Jul 1, 1999

Episode 33

Pyramids of Giza

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 34

The Trojan City

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 35

Mexico's Great Pyramids

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 36

Secrets of the Rosetta Stone

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 37

The True Story of the Molly Maguires

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 38

Pirates of the Barbary Coast

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 39

Akhenaten: Egypt's Heretic King

Wed, Jul 1, 1998

Episode 40

The First Olympics

Wed, Jul 1, 1998