History Undercover

    Season 2 1997

    • 1997-02-04T05:00:00Z on History
    • 52m
    • 14h 42m (21 episodes)
    • United States
    • English
    Investigating historic events.

    21 episodes

    Season Premiere

    1997-02-04T05:00:00Z

    2x01 S2 E1 · The Search for Alexander the Great

    Season Premiere

    2x01 S2 E1 · The Search for Alexander the Great

    • 1997-02-04T05:00:00Z42m

    Archaeologist Liana Souvaltzis searches for the tomb of Alexander the Great.

    A French priest finds clues to the treasure of the Knights Templar.

    2x03 S2 E3 · Leonardo's Shroud

    • 1997-03-26T05:00:00Z42m

    Some say the Shroud of Turin was created by Leonardo da Vinci.

    1997-04-22T04:00:00Z

    2x04 S2 E4 · A Rough Crossing

    2x04 S2 E4 · A Rough Crossing

    • 1997-04-22T04:00:00Z42m

    In the summer of 1940, eight British children flee to safety in Canada.

    Allied airmen shot down over France recall atrocities at Buchenwald.

    2x06 S2 E6 · Haig: The Unknown Soldier

    • 1997-05-06T04:00:00Z42m

    Field Marshal Douglas Haig is lambasted as "the butcher of the Somme."

    Operation Iron Cross planned for a group of U.S. officers to infiltrate Nazi Germany without any underground assistance and capture Adolf Hitler.

    2x08 S2 E8 · Hitler: The Final Chapter

    • 1997-07-01T04:00:00Z42m

    Adolf Hitler's final days.

    Documents offer evidence of military opposition to Truman's decision to drop an A-bomb on Hiroshima.

    2x10 S2 E10 · Beria: Stalin's Creature

    • 1997-08-26T04:00:00Z42m

    Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's chief of the secret police is profiled.

    2x11 S2 E11 · Hess: An Edge of Conspiracy

    • 1997-09-02T04:00:00Z42m

    Some think the last prisoner in Spandau was Rudolf Hess' double.

    1997-09-18T04:00:00Z

    2x12 S2 E12 · Spying for Love

    2x12 S2 E12 · Spying for Love

    • 1997-09-18T04:00:00Z42m

    In the 1970s, East Germany's secret service penetrates West Germany's government.

    Bruno Hauptmann's trial for the Lindbergh kidnapping causes a media frenzy.

    2x14 S2 E14 · Evidence of Vikings

    • 1997-10-09T04:00:00Z42m

    The Viking's navigational system.

    1997-10-16T04:00:00Z

    2x15 S2 E15 · Before Columbus

    2x15 S2 E15 · Before Columbus

    • 1997-10-16T04:00:00Z42m

    New evidence suggests others may have discovered North America before Christopher Columbus.

    2x16 S2 E16 · The Last Mass Execution

    • 1997-10-23T04:00:00Z42m

    Seven German prisoners of war are hanged in August 1945 after a U.S. trial.

    1997-10-26T04:00:00Z

    2x17 S2 E17 · The Jazz Age

    2x17 S2 E17 · The Jazz Age

    • 1997-10-26T04:00:00Z42m

    The "Roaring '20s."

    New information arises about the Spanish Inquisition.

    With the kamikaze, Japan turns suicide into military strategy.

    The Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.

    2x21 S2 E21 · Roswell: An Alien Obsession

    • 1997-12-04T05:00:00Z42m

    The debate over a possible UFO crash in 1947 Roswell, N.M.

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