Part detective story, part true-life drama, long-running series explores some of the most iconic moments in history to debunk myths and shed new light on past events. Using the latest investigative techniques, forensic science and historical examination, it shatters accepted wisdom, challenges prevailing ideas, overturns existing hypotheses, spotlights forgotten mysteries, and ultimately rewrites history.
You can now watch Secrets of the Dead online on the following streaming providers in the United States.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | Episode 205 | Blood on the Altar (UK) | 2000-08-14 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 206 | What Sank the Mary Rose? (UK) | 2000-08-21 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 301 | The Riddle of Pompeii (UK) | 2001-02-01 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 302 | The Hidden Scrolls of Herculaneum (UK) | 2001-02-08 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 303 | Gladiator Girl (UK) | 2001-05-14 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 304 | Sounds from the Stone Age (UK) | 2001-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 308 | King Midas' Feast (UK) | 2001-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 401 | Riddle of the Plague Survivors (UK) | 2002-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 402 | The Birth of the Smart Bomber (UK) | 2002-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 403 | Quest for Noah's Flood (UK) | 2002-03-16 | 60 min |
| Season 0 | Episode 503 | Plague on the Western Front (UK) | 2003-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Catastrophe! Part 1: The Day the Sun Went Out | 2000-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | Catastrophe! Part 2: How the World Changed | 2000-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Lost Vikings | 2000-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | What Happened to the Hindenburg | 2000-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Cannibalism in the Canyon | 2000-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | What Sank the Mary Rose? | 2015-12-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Witches' Curse | 2001-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Murder at Stonehenge | 2001-07-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Death at Jamestown | 2001-07-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Day of the Zulu | 2001-07-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Tomb of Christ | 2001-07-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | The Syphilis Enigma | 2001-07-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | What Sank the Mary Rose? | 2001-08-06 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Search for the First Human | 2001-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Mystery of the Black Death | 2002-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Titanic's Ghosts | 2002-11-20 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Great Fire of Rome | 2002-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Tragedy at the Pole | 2003-01-15 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Bombing Nazi Dams | 2003-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Blood Red Roses | 2003-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | Bridge on the River Kwai | 2003-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Killer Flu | 2004-03-03 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Shroud of Christ? | 2004-04-11 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | D-Day | 2004-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | Amazon Warrior Women | 2004-08-04 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | The Hunt for Nazi Scientists | 2005-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | Gangland Graveyard | 2005-11-16 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Voyage of the Courtesans | 2005-11-23 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | The Sinking of the Andrea Doria | 2006-07-26 | 60 min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Umbrella Assassin | 2006-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Dogfight Over Guadalcanal | 2006-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | Battle for the Bible | 2007-04-25 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | Herculaneum Uncovered | 2007-05-02 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Headless Romans | 2007-05-09 | 60 min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Irish Escape | 2007-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Aztec Massacre | 2008-04-23 | 60 min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Escape from Auschwitz | 2008-04-30 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | Doping for Gold | 2008-05-07 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Sinking Atlantis | 2008-05-14 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | Executed in Error | 2008-09-30 | 60 min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | Blackbeard's Lost Ship | 2009-04-22 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 1 | Michelangelo Revealed | 2009-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 2 | The Airmen and the Headhunters | 2009-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 3 | Mumbai Massacre | 2009-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 4 | Japanese SuperSub | 2010-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 5 | Churchill's Deadly Decision | 2010-05-12 | 60 min |
| Season 9 | Episode 6 | Deadliest Battle | 2010-05-19 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 1 | The Silver Pharaoh | 2010-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 2 | Slave Ship Mutiny | 2010-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 3 | Lost Ships of Rome | 2010-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 4 | Lost in the Amazon | 2011-04-20 | 60 min |
| Season 10 | Episode 5 | China's Terracotta Warriors | 2011-05-04 | 60 min |
| Season 11 | Episode 1 | The World's Biggest Bomb | 2011-05-16 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 1 | The Man Who Saved the World | 2012-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 2 | Bugging Hitler's Soldiers | 2013-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 3 | Death on the Railroad | 2013-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 4 | Caveman Cold Case | 2013-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 5 | Ultimate Tut | 2013-07-10 | 120 min |
| Season 12 | Episode 6 | Bones of the Buddha | 2013-07-23 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 1 | JFK: One PM Central Standard Time | 2013-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 2 | The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone | 2014-03-26 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 3 | Carthage's Lost Warriors | 2014-04-02 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 4 | The Lost Gardens of Babylon | 2014-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 5 | The Mona Lisa Mystery | 2014-07-09 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 6 | Dick Cavett's Watergate | 2014-08-08 | 60 min |
| Season 13 | Episode 7 | Resurrecting Richard III | 2014-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 1 | Ben Franklin's Bones | 2015-01-28 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 2 | JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness | 2015-08-04 | 60 min |
| Season 14 | Episode 3 | The Real Trojan Horse | 2015-10-13 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 1 | Vampire Legend | 2015-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 2 | Jamestown's Dark Winter | 2015-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 3 | The Alcatraz Escape | 2016-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 4 | Cleopatra's Lost Tomb | 2016-05-17 | 60 min |
| Season 15 | Episode 5 | Teotihuacan's Lost Kings | 2016-05-24 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 1 | After Stonehenge | 2016-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 2 | Graveyard of the Giant Beasts | 2016-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 3 | Van Gogh's Ear | 2016-12-14 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 4 | Nero's Sunken City | 2017-03-29 | 60 min |
| Season 16 | Episode 5 | Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science | 2017-04-05 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 1 | Scanning the Pyramids | 2018-01-24 | 60 min |
| Season 17 | Episode 2 | Hannibal In The Alps | 2018-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 1 | The Woman in the Iron Coffin | 2018-10-03 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 2 | The Nero Files | 2019-02-20 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 3 | King Arthur's Lost Kingdom | 2019-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 4 | Egypt's Darkest Hour | 2019-04-03 | 60 min |
| Season 18 | Episode 5 | World War Speed | 2019-06-25 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 1 | Galileo's Moon | 2019-07-02 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 2 | Bombing Auschwitz | 2020-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 3 | Building Notre Dame | 2020-04-28 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 4 | Viking Warrior Queen | 2020-07-07 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 5 | Abandoning The Titanic | 2020-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 19 | Episode 6 | Gangster's Gold | 2020-11-18 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 1 | Magellan's Crossing | 2021-10-20 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 2 | Lady Sapiens | 2021-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 3 | The First Circle of Stonehenge | 2021-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 4 | Hindenburg's Fatal Flaws | 2021-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 5 | A Samurai in the Vatican | 2021-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 20 | Episode 6 | The Caravaggio Heist | 2021-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 1 | Archaeology of Althorpe | 2022-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 2 | Last Days of Pompeii | 2022-10-19 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 3 | The End of the Romans | 2022-10-26 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 4 | Decoding Hieroglyphics | 2022-11-02 | 60 min |
| Season 21 | Episode 5 | Hidden in the Amazon | 2022-11-09 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 1 | The Sunken Basilica | 2023-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 2 | Jurassic Fortunes | 2023-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 3 | Eiffel's Race to the Top | 2023-10-25 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 4 | Death in Britannia | 2023-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 5 | The Princes in the Tower | 2023-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 6 | Returning to Babylon | 2024-10-02 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 7 | Mozart's Sister | 2024-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 8 | The Herculaneum Scrolls | 2024-10-16 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 9 | The Civil War's Lost Massacre | 2024-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 10 | Field of Vampires | 2024-10-30 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 11 | Lost Treasures of Angkor – The Discovery | 2024-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 22 | Episode 12 | Lost Treasures of Angkor – King's Gold | 2024-11-20 | 60 min |
