History Undercover (1996) is a series web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch History Undercover online in HD.
History Undercover — Storyline
Investigating historic events.
Cast & Crew
History Undercover — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1996-09-18 |
| Seasons | 10 |
| Episodes | 132 |
| Genre | series |
| Language | English |
| Status | Returning Series |
History Undercover — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: The Million Dollar Spy (1996-09-18) — Former CIA agent and Soviet spy Aldrich Ames recounts his years of betrayal, and the costs of his treachery.
- E2: The A-Bomb Ring/Hunt for the A-Bomb Spy (1996-10-01) — Russia's theft of the atomic bomb.
- E3: Russia's Secret Wars (1996-10-08) — New evidence alleges that Stalin helped orchestrate the Korean War.
- E4: Seven Minutes That Stunned the Navy (1996-10-16) — Interviews with Navy personnel and others explore the 1988 downing of an Iranian passenger plane by the U.S. cruiser Vincennes.
- E5: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust (1996-10-22) — The pope fails to take action during the Holocaust.
- E6: Spies in the Sky (1996-10-29) — For 20 years British and U.S. aircraft flew espionage missions over the Soviet Union.
- E7: The Propaganda Wars (1996-12-10) — 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 sup
Season 2
- E1: The Search for Alexander the Great (1997-02-04) — Archaeologist Liana Souvaltzis searches for the tomb of Alexander the Great.
- E2: The Hidden Treasure of the Templars (1997-03-11) — A French priest finds clues to the treasure of the Knights Templar.
- E3: Leonardo's Shroud (1997-03-26) — Some say the Shroud of Turin was created by Leonardo da Vinci.
- E4: A Rough Crossing (1997-04-22) — In the summer of 1940, eight British children flee to safety in Canada.
- E5: The Lucky Ones: Allied Airmen and Buchenwald (1997-04-29) — Allied airmen shot down over France recall atrocities at Buchenwald.
- E6: Haig: The Unknown Soldier (1997-05-06) — Field Marshal Douglas Haig is lambasted as "the butcher of the Somme."
- E7: Piercing the Reich: American Spies Inside Nazi Germany (1997-06-17) — Operation Iron Cross planned for a group of U.S. officers to infiltrate Nazi Germany without any underground assistance and capture Adolf Hitler.
- E8: Hitler: The Final Chapter (1997-07-01) — Adolf Hitler's final days.
- E9: Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb (1997-08-05) — Documents offer evidence of military opposition to Truman's decision to drop an A-bomb on Hiroshima.
- E10: Beria: Stalin's Creature (1997-08-26) — Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's chief of the secret police is profiled.
- E11: Hess: An Edge of Conspiracy (1997-09-02) — Some think the last prisoner in Spandau was Rudolf Hess' double.
- E12: Spying for Love (1997-09-18) — In the 1970s, East Germany's secret service penetrates West Germany's government.
- E13: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: The Crime That Won't Go Away (1997-10-09) — Bruno Hauptmann's trial for the Lindbergh kidnapping causes a media frenzy.
- E14: Evidence of Vikings (1997-10-09) — The Viking's navigational system.
- E15: Before Columbus (1997-10-16) — New evidence suggests others may have discovered North America before Christopher Columbus.
- E16: The Last Mass Execution (1997-10-23) — Seven German prisoners of war are hanged in August 1945 after a U.S. trial.
- E17: The Jazz Age (1997-10-26) — The "Roaring '20s."
- E18: The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition (1997-10-30) — New information arises about the Spanish Inquisition.
- E19: Human Torpedoes: The Kamikaze (1997-11-13) — With the kamikaze, Japan turns suicide into military strategy.
- E20: Kovno Ghetto: A Buried History (1997-11-20) — The Kovno ghetto in Lithuania.
- E21: Roswell: An Alien Obsession (1997-12-04) — The debate over a possible UFO crash in 1947 Roswell, N.M.
Season 3
- E1: Movies and the Mob (1998-03-19) — In 1930 organized crime infiltrates the movie industry.
- E2: Lenin's Secret Files (1998-04-23) — Vaults house the Soviet Union's Central Party archives.
- E3: Hillary and Tenzing: Everest and After (1998-04-30) — After the 1953 conquest of Everest, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay clash over the celebrity of the incident.
- E4: The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai (1998-07-16) — During World War II, 16,000 POWs die building the Bangkok-Rangoon Railway.
- E5: The African Trade (1998-10-04) — African participation in the slave trade.
- E6: The Chair (1998-10-11) — Edison and Westinghouse each try to have New York adopt the other's "executioner's current."
- E7: Cover Up! The Sinking of the SS Leopoldville (1998-10-25) — On Christmas Eve, 1944, a German U-boat sinks the SS Leopoldville with 800 Americans aboard.
- E8: Betrayal: The Story of the USS Pueblo (1998-12-20) — The crew of the USS Pueblo are captured and tortured by the North Koreans in 1968.
Season 4
- E1: Clouds of Death: The Scourge of Biochemical Warfare (1999-01-10) — Terrorists find chemical and biological weapons a cost-effective alternative to nuclear arms.
- E2: The Doomsday Flu (1999-01-24) — The influenza epidemic of 1918 kills 22 million people worldwide.
- E3: The Port Chicago Mutiny (1999-02-07) — Fifty black sailors rebel in protest of unsafe working conditions after two ammunition ships blow up in port during World War II.
- E4: Kennedy and Nixon (1999-02-15) — Friendship between JFK and Richard Nixon becomes intense rivalry.
- E5: Duel in the Desert (1999-02-28) — North African theater of war; El Alamein; Rommel vs. Montgomery.
- E6: Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria (1999-03-07) — The Japanese army seeks to develop biological weapons during World War II.
- E7: Deadly Crossing (1999-06-13) — Subs race to rescue men at sea; only 127 of the 2,000 survive.
- E8: Yanks for Stalin (1999-06-27) — In the Depression, U.S. executives tried to guide Soviet industry.
- E9: Banking With Hitler (1999-08-01) — Banks from the United States, England and Switzerland helped fund the Nazi regime.
- E10: To the Edge of Space: Project Manhigh (1999-08-16) — Altitude tests take place in 1950s New Mexico.
- E11: The Rape of Nanking (1999-08-22) — The massacre at Nanking, when Japanese troops overcame a Chinese defense and slaughtered 350,000 prisoners and civilians.
- E12: Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft of WWII (1999-08-29) — The development of Hitler's airborne arsenal, including Luftwaffe's swept-wing and vertical take-off aircraft and stealth bombers.
- E13: The Ace: The Story of Johannes Steinhoff (1999-09-06) — A former Luftwaffe pilot moves up to become head of the West German Air Force.
- E14: Top Secret: Spy Planes of the Cold War (1999-09-12) — New information about secret spy plane missions flown over communist territories during the Cold War.
- E15: Inferno: The True Story of Dresden (1999-09-19) — Operation Thunderclap rained tons of bombs on Dresden, Germany.
- E16: The Last Cold Warrior (1999-09-26) — A Russian defector damages the KGB.
- E17: Churchill and the President (1999-10-03) — U.S. soldiers man the SIGSALY system in a London department store.
- E18: Mystery of the U2 (1999-10-17) — The Soviets shoot down an American spy plane.
- E19: Code Name: Project Orion (1999-10-31) — In the 1950s, plans arise to send a giant, manned spaceship to other planets.
- E20: U.S.S. Iowa Explosion (1999-11-07) — A 1989 explosion on the USS Iowa kills 47 crew members.
- E21: The Secret Bunker (1999-11-21) — The secret duck-and-cover plan during the Cold War included underground bunkers which would have protected top officials if the Soviets attacked.
- E22: Pope John XXIII (1999-12-14) — A farmer's son becomes Pope John XXIII and stirs up an ecumenical hornet's nest.
- E23: John Paul I and His Mysterious Death (1999-12-15) — The sudden death of Pope John Paul I gives rise to rumours of a murder plot.
- E24: Pope John Paul II (1999-12-16) — Pope John Paul II does not allow compromise on moral issues.
Season 5
- E1: Declassified: Human Experimentation (2000-01-08) — The United States conducted experiments on unwitting subjects throughout the Cold War.
- E2: Sex and the Swastika (2000-01-09) — A secret government department that broadcasts false German news stories featuring the sex practices of Nazis.
- E3: The Real Flying Tigers (2000-01-23) — The mercenary American Volunteer Group known as the Flying Tigers, formed by retired Air Force Capt. Claire L. Chennault in 1941.
- E4: The Typhoons' Last Storm (2000-02-06) — The S.S. uses ships of concentration-camp survivors as bait for British bombers.
- E5: Murder in Memphis: Unanswered Questions (2000-02-26) — Some believe that it was not James Earl Ray who killed Martin Luther King Jr.
- E6: The Real Albert Goering (2000-02-27) — Marshal Hermann Goering's brother rescues victims of Nazi tyranny.
- E7: Mercury 13: The Secret Astronauts (2000-03-25) — In the early 1960s, 13 women qualify as astronauts.
- E8: Hunting Hitler (2000-04-02) — The individuals who tried to alter the course of history by attempting to kill Adolf Hitler.
- E9: Jesse James: Fact and Fiction (2000-04-08) — The remains in Jesse James' grave may be those of someone else.
- E10: The Killer Fog (2000-04-15) — Thousands die during a week of black smog in 1952 London.
- E11: John Paul II and the Fall of Communism (2000-04-21) — Pope John Paul II's trip back to Poland helps to topple Communism.
- E12: The Bataan Death March (2000-05-14) — 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.
- E13: Execution at Camp 21 (2000-05-28) — The last hours of anti-Nazi Wolfgang Rosterg, who was incarcerated with fanatical Nazis at Camp 21 and murdered.
- E14: Air America: The CIA's Secret Airline (2000-06-11) — The civilian airline secretly owned and operated by the CIA, from its secret missions over China and Korea to Vietnam and Laos.
- E15: Bay of Pigs Declassified (2000-07-09) — 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.
- E16: S5 E16 · Episode 16 (2000-08-01)
- E17: Ultimate Weapon: The H-Bomb (2000-08-06) — Until recently, most documents surrounding the H-bomb were highly classified.
- E18: The World's Deepest Dive (2000-09-10) — Scientists explore the Mariana Trench.
- E19: Stolen Gold (2000-10-08) — Great Olympic athletes feel the gold medal slip through their fingers.
- E20: Anatomy of a Coup: The CIA in Iran (2000-10-29) — The CIA and British Intelligence plan a coup to maintain control over Iranian oil.
- E21: Sex in the Civil War (2000-11-05) — The sexual practices of soldiers during the Civil War.
- E22: Psychic Espionage (2000-11-19) — Psychic spies from the CIA, KGB, MI 5 and spy agencies in Poland, Germany and Israel.
- E23: Diplomats for the Damned (2000-11-26) — A few foreign-service diplomats secretly save Jews from the Nazis.
- E24: Concorde: The Plane That Fell to Earth (2000-12-04) — Air France Concorde flight AF4590 crashes near Le Bourget.
Season 6
- E1: Holocaust: The Untold Story (2001-01-07) — During the Holocaust the U.S. government suppresses information regarding the plight of European Jews.
- E2: Louis vs. Schmeling: The Real Story (2001-01-21) — How Max Schmeling risked his life to help two Jewish boys; the different paths Schmeling and Joe Louis took after their heavyweight bouts.
- E3: Rudolf Hess: The Man Who Died Twice (2001-02-04) — 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.
- E4: Cover Up: Attack on the USS Liberty (2001-02-25) — 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.
- E5: Mutiny: The True Story of the Red October (2001-04-22) — 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.
- E6: The Mystery of the 364th (2001-04-29) — Whether members of the 364th Infantry were killed by the U.S. Army for threatening military morale during World War II.
- E7: The Bloody Aleutians (2001-05-06) — The fight between the Japanese and the Americans in the Aleutian Islands in the Alaskan north during World War II.
- E8: The Two Faces of Heinrich Himmler (2001-08-19) — Archival film, previously unpublished documents and interviews reveal Heinrich Himmler's double life — one which involved reaching out to the Allies.
- E9: Mystery of the Reichsbank Gold (2001-08-23) — Historian Ian Sayer and a group of amateur treasure hunters embark on a quest to locate the missing Third Reich coffers.
- E10: Hirohito's War (2001-09-02) — 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.
- E11: Terrorism at the End of the Millennium (2001-09-20) — The World Trade Center bombing in 1993 marks an ominous turning point for international terrorism.
- E12: Nazi Paratroopers (2001-09-23) — The 1941 Battle for Crete is the first large-scale paratrooper invasion.
- E13: 100 Years of Terror (2001-09-29) — Terrorism thrives in the 20th century.
- E14: One Hour Over Tokyo: The Doolittle Raid (2001-09-30) — The Doolittle Raiders retaliate for the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
- E15: Soviet Top-Secret Weapons (2001-10-07) — The sinking of M-256 and the Ekranopian, a secret flying ship which carried thousands of soldiers or missiles over great distances.
- E16: Three Air Crashes: Common Links (2001-10-11) — What may have caused three major commercial airline disasters — TWA 800, Swissair 111 and Egyptair 990.
- E17: The Last Surrender (2001-10-28) — Hiroo Onoda reflects on his 1944 mission on the Philippine Island of Lubang in which he carried out guerrilla operations.
- E18: USS Indianapolis Resurfaced (2001-11-08) — How a 12-year-old's school project helped exonerate Charles B. McVay III, the captain of the USS Indianapolis, which sank in 1945.
- E19: Rescue of the Bataan Ghost Soldiers (2001-11-11) — The Army Rangers landed 30 miles behind enemy lines to attack Cabanatuan and saved survivors of the Bataan Death March.
- E20: U-234: Last Submarine of the Reich (2001-11-18) — 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.
- E21: 100 Years of Terror: A Legacy of Violence (2001-11-26) — Terrorism emerges during the French Revolution.
- E22: The True Story of the Black Sheep Squadron (2001-11-29) — 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.
- E23: Road Map to Pearl Harbor (2001-12-06) — A leading British naval authority of the 1920s writes a book about the possibility of a confrontation between America and Japan.
- E24: The Other Tragedy at Pearl Harbor (2001-12-07) — A chain of explosions among tightly-berthed ships kills 127 servicemen at 1944 Pearl Harbor.
- E25: Mussolini's Henchmen (2001-12-16) — Shadowy figures protect Mussolini and Italy's tenuous Axis relationship with Germany.
- E26: Afghanistan: Legacy of War (2001-12-30) — Recent history of fighting in Afghanistan.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does History Undercover have? 10 season(s) with 132 episodes.
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