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Secrets of the Dead Season 9 Episodes
Season 9 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Michelangelo Revealed
Wed, May 13, 2009
Art historian Antonio Forcellino investigates whether Michelangelo was part of the Spirituali, an influential theological group within the Catholic church that tried to bring reforms to the Vatican and avoid the war with the Protestants.
Episode 2
Airmen and the Headhunters
Wed, Nov 11, 2009
A tribe in Borneo protects a shot-down U.S. bomber crew from Japanese occupiers during World War II. The local missionaries, who converted the tribe to Christianity, were executed by the Japanese invaders, who had forced out Dutch and British colonialists, while massacring Borneo natives. A surviving missionary from Indonesia, employed by the Japanese military as an area administrator, outwits Japanese forces by hiding the U.S. airmen deep in a jungle canyon. The local Dayak people risk their lives, and force the occupiers to abandon their hunt for the airmen, using blowpipes and machetes against the Japanese army search parties.
Episode 3
Mumbai Massacre
53 mins
Accounts of the survivors of the indiscriminate terrorist massacres in Mumbai by Islamic Extremests in November 2008 and how the news media aided the terrorist by giving away the hiding places of the soon to be victims.
Episode 4
Japanese SuperSub
Wed, May 5, 201054 mins
During World War 2, Japan developed a super-submarine capable of launching bomber aircraft as a strategic weapon to carry the conflict to the United States mainland. But in the rapidly changing Pacific Theater, one intended mission after another becomes obsolete before the submarines can be deployed.
