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Secrets of the Dead — Season 12

Episodes

  • E01 The Man Who Saved the World

    Oct 23, 2012

    An officer aboard a Soviet submarine refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

  • E02 Bugging Hitler's Soldiers

    May 1, 2013

    German POWs reveal inner thoughts about the Third Reich, including military secrets that helped the Allies win World War II.

  • E03 Death on the Railroad

    May 8, 2013

    Forensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months after arriving in Pennsylvania to work on the railroad.

  • E04 Cavemen Cold Case

    May 15, 2013

    Scientists say some of the 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidrón, Spain, bear signs of cannibalism.

  • E05 Ultimate Tut

    Jul 10, 2013

    New scientific research provides insights into how King Tutankhamen was buried, why his tomb remained intact and how he died.

  • E06 Bones of the Buddha

    Jul 23, 2013

    Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.

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