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Secrets of the Dead Season 12 Episodes
Season 12 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
The Man Who Saved the World
Tue, Oct 23, 201255 mins
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, submarine fleet commander Vasili Arkhipov, acting alone, blocked a nuclear torpedo launch at US aircraft carrier Randolph, which would have impelled a nuclear war. US Navy destroyers located a Foxtrot submarine in international waters near Cuba, and dropped practice depth charges to force the sub to surface. Sub B-59 was out of touch with the Kremlin, and was also too deep to hear any radio, so the sub's officers did not know if war was underway or not. B-59's captain and its political commissar both wanted to launch a torpedo.
Episode 2
Bugging Hitler's Soldiers
Wed, May 1, 201354 mins
A carefully planned and executed top secret MI-19 operation recorded the intimate conversations of German prisoners of war. The conversations between senior German officers revealed intelligence that was critical to the Allied war effort and the extent of participation of the German military and their feelings about the Holocaust.
Episode 3
Death on the Railroad
Wed, May 8, 201354 mins
Death on the Railroad is an epic 9 year detective story and murder mystery. It is a classic story involving foul play, cover ups, a one hundred and eighty year old murder mystery and voyage of discovery for the Watson Brothers and their project team. This is a Science/History documentary that sets out to solve the mystery of what happened in a remote Pennsylvania valley known as Duffy's Cut.
Episode 4
Caveman Cold Case
Wed, May 15, 201352 mins
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? Scientists examine the bones and discover signs that tell a shocking story of how this group may have met their deaths. Some bones bear distinct signs of cannibalism. Was it a result of ritual or hunger? Neanderthal experts are adamant that they were not bloodthirsty brutes. What happened here 49,000 years ago will take viewers on a much bigger journey - from El Sidron to the other end of the Iberian Peninsula, where scientists are excavating beneath the seas off Gibraltar in search of Neanderthal sites.
Episode 5
Ultimate Tut
Wed, Jul 10, 2013110 mins
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. This 2-hour special brings together the latest evidence from a team of archaeologists, anatomists, geologists, and Egyptologists, to build the ultimate picture of Tutankhamen.
Episode 6
Bones of the Buddha
Tue, Jul 23, 201354 mins
From PBS: When colonial estate manager Willie Peppe set his workers digging at a mysterious hill in Northern India in 1898, he had no idea what they'd find. Just over 20 feet down, they made an amazing discovery: a huge stone coffer, containing five reliquary jars, more than 1,000 separate jewels and some ash and bone. One of the jars bore an inscription that appeared to say that these were the remains of the Buddha himself. This seemed to be the most extraordinary find in Indian archaeology. But doubt and scandal have hung over this amazing find for more than 100 years. For some, the whole thing is an elaborate hoax. For others, it is no less than the final resting place of the leader of one of the world's great religions, a sage who died nearly 2,500 years ago. For the doubters, suspicion focuses on a key figure from the time, disgraced German archaeologist Dr. Anton Fuhrer. Renowned historian Charles Allen sets out to solve this extraordinary mystery, once and for all.
