Secret History (TV series)
Secret History is a long-running British television documentary series. Shown on Channel 4, the Secret History brandname is still used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can still be found on US cable channels without the branding. It can be seen as Channel 4's answer to the BBC's Timewatch. The series returned to Channel 4 on 10 November 2013 after a nine-year break.
Production
According to Channel 4, Secret History is the home of single, hour-long history documentaries that shed new light on some of the most intriguing stories from the past. New evidence from excavation, research, and investigation reveal strange, forgotten stories and shed new light on the events we thought we knew well. The programmes challenge accepted views of key events in history. Sometimes concealed, sometimes manipulated by the media, the truth has been submerged behind the headlines and the propaganda. From Roman legions to Nazi television, the series re-examined contemporary evidence, focusing on often shocking first-hand accounts and the ground-breaking views of leading experts.In 1992, the show won the Royal Television Society award for Best Documentary Series.
Episode guide
Series 1
- "The Hidden Hand"
- "Unquiet Graves"
- "Ratlines"
- "Bloody Sunday"
- "Murder in Mississippi"
- "Prisoners of Propaganda"
Series 2
- "Deep Sleep"
- "Birds of Death"
- "Drowning by Bullets"
- "The Last Days of Aldo Moro"
- "The Hidden Holocaust"
- "Death of a Democrat"
- "Bad Blood"
- "The Robert Kennedy Assassination"
Series 3
- "The Soviet Wives Affair"
- "White Lies"
- "The Dambusters Raid"
- "Dead or Alive?"
- "The Lynchburg Story"
- "Suicide Island"
Special
- "The Roswell Incident"
Series 4
- "The Battle of Goose Green"
- "The Whitechapel Murders"
- "The Voyage of the St. Louis"
- "Mutiny in the RAF"
- "Harold Wilson - the Final Days"
- "Konkordski"
- "Hello Mr President"
Series 5
- "Lords of the Underworld"
- "The Tragedy of HMS Glorious"
- "Breaking the Sound Barrier"
- "Gold Fever"
- "Spying for Love"
- "The Forgotten Famine"
- "The Cawnpore Massacres"
- "Bloody Partition"
Series 6
- "The Voyage of the Exodus"
- "The Porn King, the Stripper and the Bent Coppers"
- "The Chair"
- "Dad's Army"
- "Killer Flu"
- "The Berlin Airlift"
- "Purple Secret - In Search of Royal Madness"
- "Winter of Discontent"
- "Witch Hunt"
- "D-Day Disaster"
- "Kinsey's Paedophiles"
Series 7
- "The Great Train Robbery"
- "The Hidden Jews of Berlin"
- "Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail"
- "Mau Mau"
- "The People's Duchess"
- "Sex and the Swastika"
- "Bunny Girls"
- "Miracle on the River Kwai"
- "The Great Fog"
- "Execution at Camp 21"
Special
- "The Few"
Series 8
- "The Duchess and the Headless Man"
- "Funny Money"
- "Last Train from Budapest"
- "Prisoners of the Kaiser"
- "Mutiny - The True Story of the Red October"
- "Natural Born Americans"
- "Children of the Iron Lung"
Series 9
- "Orphans of the Airlift"
- "The Search for the "
- "The Lost Legions of Varus"
- "Television in the Third Reich"
- "Wartime Crime"
- "Spanish Armada"
- "The Falklands - Exocet!"
Series 10
- "Charge of the Light Brigade"
- "The Comet Cover-Up"
- "Witchfinder General"
- "Magic at War"
- "The Crucified Soldier"
- "The War That Made the Nazis"
- "Horror on the Home Front"
- "Dogfight - The Mystery of The Red Baron"
Series 11
- "Brighton Bomb"
- "Hitler of the Andes"
- "Costa del Crime"
- "The Affair"
- "The Strangest Viking"
- "The Nazi Officer's Wife"
- "Brinks Mat - The Greatest Heist Part 1"
- "Brinks Mat - The Greatest Heist Part 2"
- "Who Kidnapped Shergar?"
Series 12
- "Beasts of the Roman Games"
- "Britain's Boy Soldiers"
- "The Royal Mummy"
- "Sex Bomb"
- "Sink the Belgrano"
- "The Nazi Expedition"
Series 13
- "The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy"
- "Queen Victoria And The Crippled Kaiser"
- "Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden"
- "New Secrets Of The Terracotta Warriors"
- "The Dambusters' Great Escape"
- "Return Of The Black Death"
Series 14
- "The Real Noah's Ark"
- "Hitler's Hidden Drug Habit"
- "WW1's Forgotten Heroes"
- "The Great Wall of China - The Hidden Story"
Series 15
- "London's Lost Graveyard - The Crossrail Discovery"
- "Prince Philip - the Plot to Make a King"
- "Hunt for the Atlantic Ghost Ship"
- "The Other Prince William"
- "First Humans - The Cave Discovery"
- "Cleopatra's Lost Tomb"
- "China - Treasures of the Jade Empire"
- "Sex Change Spitfire Ace"
- "Britain's Medieval Vampires"
Series 16
- "Shakespeare's Tomb"
- "The Mystery of the Crossrail Skulls"
- "Jutland - WW1's Greatest Sea Battle"
- "Messages Home - Lost Films of the British Army"
- "China's Forgotten Emperor"
- "Saddam Goes to Hollywood"
- "Heroes of Helmand - The British Army's Greatest Escape"
- "Secrets of a Police Marksman"
- "The Good Terrorist"
- "The Last Heroes of the Somme"
- "Pearl Harbor - The New Evidence"
- "Titanic - The New Evidence"
Series 17
- "Dunkirk - The New Evidence"
- "Secrets of China's Forbidden City"
- "Egypt's Great Pyramid - The New Evidence"
- "Britain's Forgotten Army"
- "Holocaust - The Revenge Plot"
- "Lost Cities of the Maya - Revealed"
- "The First Brit - Secrets of the 10,000 Year Old Man"
- "Hannibal's Elephant Army - The New Evidence"
- "Churchill's Secret Affair"
- "Jesus' Female Disciples"
Series 18
- "Skeletons of the Mary Rose - The New Evidence"
Home video releases