Secret History (TV documentary series)

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Secret History was a long running British television documentary series. Shown on Channel 4, the Secret History brandname was used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can still be found on US cable channels (like Discovery Times or The History Channel International) without the branding. It can be seen as Channel 4's answer to the BBC's Timewatch.

[edit] Episode guide

Titles are linked to the main subject of each programme, where possible.

Series 1

• The Hidden Hand (14 Nov, 1991)
• Unquiet Graves (21 Nov, 1991)
• Ratlines (28 Nov, 1991)
• Bloody Sunday (5 Dec, 1991)
• Murder in Mississippi (12 Dec, 1991)
• Prisoners of Propaganda (19 Dec, 1991)

Series 2

• Deep Sleep (29 Jun, 1992)
• Birds of Death (6 Jul, 1992)
• Drowning by Bullets (13 Jul, 1992)
• The Last Days of Aldo Moro (20 Jul, 1992)
• The Hidden Holocaust (27 Jul, 1992)
• Death of a Democrat (3 Aug, 1992)
• Bad Blood (10 Aug, 1992)
• The Robert Kennedy Assassination (17 Aug, 1992)

Series 3

• The Soviet Wives Affair (20 Jan, 1994)
• White Lies (27 Jan, 1994)
• The Dambusters Raid (3 Mar, 1994)
• Dead or Alive? (10 Feb, 1994)
• The Lynchburg Story (17 Feb, 1994)
• Suicide Island (24 Feb, 1994)

Special

• The Roswell Incident (28 Aug, 1995)

Series 4

• The Battle of Goose Green (11 Jul, 1996)
• The Whitechapel Murders (25 Jul, 1996)
• The Voyage of the St Louis (1 Aug, 1996)
• Mutiny in the RAF (8 Aug, 1996)
• Harold Wilson - the Final Days (15 Aug, 1996)
• Konkordski (22 Aug, 1996)

Special

• Hello Mr President (21 Jan, 1997)

Series 4

• Lords of the Underworld (23 Jun, 1997)
• The Tragedy of HMS Glorious (30 Jun, 1997)
• Breaking the Sound Barrier (7 Jul, 1997)
• Gold Fever (14 Jul, 1997)
• Spying for Love (21 Jul, 1997)

Specials - Indian Summer season

• The Forgotten Famine (12 Aug, 1997)
• The Cawnpore massacres (14 Aug, 1997)
• A Bloody Partition (25 Aug, 1997)

Series 5

• The Voyage of the Exodus (11 May, 1998)
• The Porn King, the Stripper and the Bent Coppers (18 May, 1998)
• The Chair (1 Jun, 1998)
• Dad's Army (8 Jun, 1998)
• Killer Flu (15 Jun, 1998)
• The Berlin Airlift (29 Jun, 1998)
• The Purple Secret - In Search of Royal Madness (6 Jul, 1998)
• Winter of Discontent (13 Jul, 1998)
• Witch Hunt (20 Jul, 1998)
• D-Day Disaster (27 Jul, 1998)
• Kinsey's Paedophiles (10 Aug, 1998)

Series 6

• The Great Train Robbery (10 Aug, 1999)
• The Hidden Jews of Berlin (17 Aug, 1999)
• Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail (19 Aug, 1999)
• Mau Mau (24 Aug, 1999)
• The People's Duchess (31 Aug, 1999)
• Sex and the Swastika (7 Sep, 1999)
• The Bunny Years (14 Sep, 1999)
• Miracle on the River Kwai (21 Sep, 1999)
• Killer Fog (28 Sep, 1999)
• Execution at Camp 21 (5 Oct, 1999)

Series 7

• The Duchess and the Headless Man (10 Aug, 2000)
• Funny Money (17 Aug, 2000)
• Last Train from Budapest (24 Aug, 2000)
• Prisoners of the Kaiser (31 Aug, 2000)
• Mutiny - The True Story of the Red October (7 Sep, 2000)
• Natural Born Americans (14 Sep, 2000)
• Children of the Iron Lung (21 Sep, 2000)

Series 8

• The Secret History of Hacking (22 Jul, 2001)
• Orphans of the Airlift (9 Aug, 2001)
• The Search for the Struma (16 Aug, 2001)
• The Lost Legions of Varus (23 Aug, 2001)
• Television in the Third Reich (30 Aug, 2001)
• Wartime Crime (6 Sep, 2001)
• Armada (13 Sep, 2001)

Series 9'

• Charge of the Light Brigade (6 Jun, 2002)
• The Comet Cover-Up (13 Jun, 2002)
• Witchfinder General (20 Jun, 2002)
• Magic at War (27 Jun, 2002)
• The Crucified Soldier (4 Jul, 2002)
• The War That Made the Nazis (11 Jul, 2002)
• Horror on the Home Front (18 Jul, 2002)
• Dogfight - The Mystery of the Red Baron (25 Jul, 2002)

Series 10

• Brighton Bomb (15 May, 2003)
• Hitler of the Andes (22 May, 2003)
• Costa Del Crime (29 May, 2003)
• The Affair (5 Jun, 2003)
• The Strangest Viking (12 Jun, 2003)
• The Nazi Officer's Wife (19 Jun, 2003)

Specials

• Brinks Mat - The Greatest Heist Part 1 (24 Nov, 2003)
• Brinks Mat - The Greatest Heist Part 2 (21 Dec, 2003)

Special

• Who Killed Shergar? (18 Mar, 2004)

Series 11

• Beasts of the Roman Games (7 Jun, 2004)
• Britain's Boy Soldiers (14 Jun, 2004)
• The Royal Mummy (21 Jun, 2004)
• Sex Bomb (28 Jun, 2004)
• Sink the Belgrano (5 Jul, 2004)
• The Nazi Expedition (12 Jul, 2004)