Secrets of the Dead Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Hidden in the AmazonRecent discoveries, including funerary urns with highly decorative patterns, and technological advances, like the remote sensor system known as LiDAR, are shedding new light on our understanding of pre-Columbian human habitation in the Amazon. Scientists speculate the rainforest was home to between 8 and 10 million people living in large, well-established communities.
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Episode 1 - King Arthur's Lost KingdomIn King Arthur’s Lost Kingdom, Professor Alice Roberts uses archaeological discoveries to piece together a turning point in Britain’s history. The key to her quest is the excavation of a stone palace in Cornwall – long believed to be the birthplace of the King Arthur legend. Was Arthur in fact ruler of a prosperous trading village, and the defender of the native Britons against the Anglo-Saxons?
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Episode 1 - Death in BritanniaUncover what happens when archaeologists study a skeleton found with an iron nail through its heel bone, suggesting the person was the victim of crucifixion in Roman-occupied Britain. Only one other skeleton with evidence of crucifixion has ever been found in the world. Who was he? What was life in Roman Britain like? And why did he receive such a gruesome punishment?
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Episode 2 - Bugging Hitler's SoldiersFrom PBS – Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POWs revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. The film tells the story of how those conversations were recorded and how they can now reveal, in shocking detail, the hearts and minds of the German fighter. Only now have more than 100,000 hours of these secret recordings been declassified, researched and cross referenced. The documentary includes intense, full-dialogue dramatic reconstructions that use the verbatim transcripts of these bugged conversations to reveal the dark heart of the Nazi regime as never before.
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Episode 3 - Death On the RailroadFrom PBS – A classic story involving foul play, cover ups, a murder mystery and a voyage of discovery explains what happened to a group of Irish men who immigrated to America. In 1832, railroad contractor Philip Duffy hired 57 Irish immigrants to lay railroad tracks in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Less than two months after their arrival, all 57 were dead. Did they all die — as was widely believed — from cholera? Or were some murdered? In 2003, twin brothers who discovered a secret file among their grandfather’s papers investigated the deaths of these men and found the location of their final resting place. Using the latest forensic and scientific investigative techniques, DNA, forensic analysis, facial reconstruction and historical detective work in Ireland and the U.S., modern detectives and experts unravel this extraordinary story.
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