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Private Notes
Former CIA agent and Soviet spy Aldrich Ames recounts his years of betrayal, and the costs of his treachery.
Russia's theft of the atomic bomb.
New evidence alleges that Stalin helped orchestrate the Korean War.
Interviews with Navy personnel and others explore the 1988 downing of an Iranian passenger plane by the U.S. cruiser Vincennes.
The pope fails to take action during the Holocaust.
For 20 years British and U.S. aircraft flew espionage missions over the Soviet Union.
During World War II, the Japanese and American governments fund the creation of films, newsreels and posters with exaggerated and provocative messages to persuade the public to support the war effort.
Archaeologist Liana Souvaltzis searches for the tomb of Alexander the Great.
A French priest finds clues to the treasure of the Knights Templar.
Some say the Shroud of Turin was created by Leonardo da Vinci.
In the summer of 1940, eight British children flee to safety in Canada.
Allied airmen shot down over France recall atrocities at Buchenwald.
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.
Adolf Hitler's final days.
Documents offer evidence of military opposition to Truman's decision to drop an A-bomb on Hiroshima.
Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's chief of the secret police is profiled.
Some think the last prisoner in Spandau was Rudolf Hess' double.
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.
The Viking's navigational system.
New evidence suggests others may have discovered North America before Christopher Columbus.
Seven German prisoners of war are hanged in August 1945 after a U.S. trial.
The "Roaring '20s."
New information arises about the Spanish Inquisition.
With the kamikaze, Japan turns suicide into military strategy.
The Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.
The debate over a possible UFO crash in 1947 Roswell, N.M.
In 1930 organized crime infiltrates the movie industry.
Vaults house the Soviet Union's Central Party archives.
After the 1953 conquest of Everest, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay clash over the celebrity of the incident.
During World War II, 16,000 POWs die building the Bangkok-Rangoon Railway.
African participation in the slave trade.
Edison and Westinghouse each try to have New York adopt the other's "executioner's current."
On Christmas Eve, 1944, a German U-boat sinks the SS Leopoldville with 800 Americans aboard.
The crew of the USS Pueblo are captured and tortured by the North Koreans in 1968.
Terrorists find chemical and biological weapons a cost-effective alternative to nuclear arms.
The influenza epidemic of 1918 kills 22 million people worldwide.
Fifty black sailors rebel in protest of unsafe working conditions after two ammunition ships blow up in port during World War II.
Friendship between JFK and Richard Nixon becomes intense rivalry.
North African theater of war; El Alamein; Rommel vs. Montgomery.
The Japanese army seeks to develop biological weapons during World War II.
Subs race to rescue men at sea; only 127 of the 2,000 survive.
In the Depression, U.S. executives tried to guide Soviet industry.
Banks from the United States, England and Switzerland helped fund the Nazi regime.
Altitude tests take place in 1950s New Mexico.
The massacre at Nanking, when Japanese troops overcame a Chinese defense and slaughtered 350,000 prisoners and civilians.
The development of Hitler's airborne arsenal, including Luftwaffe's swept-wing and vertical take-off aircraft and stealth bombers.
A former Luftwaffe pilot moves up to become head of the West German Air Force.
New information about secret spy plane missions flown over communist territories during the Cold War.
Operation Thunderclap rained tons of bombs on Dresden, Germany.
A Russian defector damages the KGB.
U.S. soldiers man the SIGSALY system in a London department store.
The Soviets shoot down an American spy plane.
In the 1950s, plans arise to send a giant, manned spaceship to other planets.
A 1989 explosion on the USS Iowa kills 47 crew members.
The secret duck-and-cover plan during the Cold War included underground bunkers which would have protected top officials if the Soviets attacked.
A farmer's son becomes Pope John XXIII and stirs up an ecumenical hornet's nest.
The sudden death of Pope John Paul I gives rise to rumours of a murder plot.
Pope John Paul II does not allow compromise on moral issues.
The United States conducted experiments on unwitting subjects throughout the Cold War.
A secret government department that broadcasts false German news stories featuring the sex practices of Nazis.
The mercenary American Volunteer Group known as the Flying Tigers, formed by retired Air Force Capt. Claire L. Chennault in 1941.
The S.S. uses ships of concentration-camp survivors as bait for British bombers.
Some believe that it was not James Earl Ray who killed Martin Luther King Jr.
Marshal Hermann Goering's brother rescues victims of Nazi tyranny.
In the early 1960s, 13 women qualify as astronauts.
The individuals who tried to alter the course of history by attempting to kill Adolf Hitler.
The remains in Jesse James' grave may be those of someone else.
Thousands die during a week of black smog in 1952 London.
Pope John Paul II's trip back to Poland helps to topple Communism.
The abuse inflicted upon U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war who were forced by their Japanese captors to march more than 50 miles to Bataan death camp.
The last hours of anti-Nazi Wolfgang Rosterg, who was incarcerated with fanatical Nazis at Camp 21 and murdered.
The civilian airline secretly owned and operated by the CIA, from its secret missions over China and Korea to Vietnam and Laos.
The Bay of Pigs fiasco became the first foreign policy defeat for the Kennedy administration, and the first time a CIA covert operation was exposed.
Until recently, most documents surrounding the H-bomb were highly classified.
Scientists explore the Mariana Trench.
Great Olympic athletes feel the gold medal slip through their fingers.
The CIA and British Intelligence plan a coup to maintain control over Iranian oil.
The sexual practices of soldiers during the Civil War.
Psychic spies from the CIA, KGB, MI 5 and spy agencies in Poland, Germany and Israel.
A few foreign-service diplomats secretly save Jews from the Nazis.
Air France Concorde flight AF4590 crashes near Le Bourget.
During the Holocaust the U.S. government suppresses information regarding the plight of European Jews.
How Max Schmeling risked his life to help two Jewish boys; the different paths Schmeling and Joe Louis took after their heavyweight bouts.
Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into a Scottish field with proposals for ending the war, but he was arrested and spent 46 years as a prisoner.
The United States and Israel cover up details of the attack on the USS Liberty off the Sinai Peninsula, possibly by Israeli boats and planes.
Officers and crew who served aboard the Russian destroyer the Sentry recall how the captain seized control of the ship and led his men to mutiny.
Whether members of the 364th Infantry were killed by the U.S. Army for threatening military morale during World War II.
The fight between the Japanese and the Americans in the Aleutian Islands in the Alaskan north during World War II.
Archival film, previously unpublished documents and interviews reveal Heinrich Himmler's double life -- one which involved reaching out to the Allies.
Historian Ian Sayer and a group of amateur treasure hunters embark on a quest to locate the missing Third Reich coffers.
The life of commander in chief of the Japanese Armed Forces Hirohito, including his wartime role from the attack on Pearl Harbor to Japan's surrender.
The World Trade Center bombing in 1993 marks an ominous turning point for international terrorism.
The 1941 Battle for Crete is the first large-scale paratrooper invasion.
Terrorism thrives in the 20th century.
The Doolittle Raiders retaliate for the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The sinking of M-256 and the Ekranopian, a secret flying ship which carried thousands of soldiers or missiles over great distances.
What may have caused three major commercial airline disasters -- TWA 800, Swissair 111 and Egyptair 990.
Hiroo Onoda reflects on his 1944 mission on the Philippine Island of Lubang in which he carried out guerrilla operations.
How a 12-year-old's school project helped exonerate Charles B. McVay III, the captain of the USS Indianapolis, which sank in 1945.
The Army Rangers landed 30 miles behind enemy lines to attack Cabanatuan and saved survivors of the Bataan Death March.
Near the end of World War II, a U.S. destroyer's capture of a German submarine may have accelerated the decision to drop the atomic bomb.
Terrorism emerges during the French Revolution.
The Marine fighter squadron known as the Black Sheep shot down more than 100 confirmed Japanese planes during their nine months together in the Pacific.
A leading British naval authority of the 1920s writes a book about the possibility of a confrontation between America and Japan.
A chain of explosions among tightly-berthed ships kills 127 servicemen at 1944 Pearl Harbor.
Shadowy figures protect Mussolini and Italy's tenuous Axis relationship with Germany.
Recent history of fighting in Afghanistan.
Hundreds of thousands of Hitler's soldiers are held in prison camps in America.
The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission spies on people connected to the civil-rights movement.
Pol Pot's campaign of forced labour, starvation and murder leaves 1.7 million Cambodians dead.
Palestinian terrorists murder 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games.
The United States spends more time and money than any other nation in trying to find those missing in action.
Terrorism is used in the fight for independence from colonial powers.
Terrorist groups cross national borders to help each other.
Terrorist groups operate worldwide.
The German battle cruiser Scharnhorst sinks rapidly after being hit during World War II.
German tribesmen slaughter an entire Roman army.
U.S. forces track four Soviet long-range attack submarines armed with nuclear-tipped torpedoes.
A Japanese destroyer sinks a PT boat skippered by John F. Kennedy.
Suicide terrorism is a group phenomenon.
At Christmas 1914, Allied and German soldiers meet peacefully in No Man's Land.
A worldwide electronic surveillance network monitoring matters of international security --conspiracy-theorist fantasy or reality? Echelon is the moniker for an information-sharing policy entered into by five countries--the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand--that share internal espionage to sidestep national laws that forbid spying on their own citizens. Explore the technological aspects of this partnership, including encryption and hi-tech satellite communication.
The HMT Rohna's sinking in 1943 marks the greatest loss at sea of U.S. Army personnel in World War II.
