Secret History

1. The Hidden Hand

Air Date: 1991-11-14

A Zimbabwean writer and activist investigates the war against Mozambique and the assassinations of opponents of South African apartheid.

2. Unquiet Graves

Air Date: 1991-11-21

3. Ratlines

Air Date: 1991-11-28

4. Bloody Sunday

Air Date: 1991-12-05

5. Murder in Mississippi

Air Date: 1991-12-12

On the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner on June 21 1964, also known as the 'Mississippi Burning murders'

1. Deep Sleep

Air Date: 1992-06-29

2. Birds Of Death

Air Date: 1992-07-06

3. Drowning By Bullets

Air Date: 1992-07-13

4. The Last Days of Aldo Moro

Air Date: 1992-07-20

5. The Hidden Holocaust

Air Date: 1992-07-27

6. Death of a Democrat

Air Date: 1992-08-03

7. Bad Blood

Air Date: 1992-08-10

8. The Robert Kennedy Assassination

Air Date: 1992-08-17

1. The Soviet Wives Affair

Air Date: 1994-01-20

2. White Lies

Air Date: 1994-01-27

3. The Dambusters Raid

Air Date: 1994-02-03

4. Dead or Alive?

Air Date: 1994-02-10

5. The Lynchburg Story

Air Date: 1994-02-17

6. Suicide Island

Air Date: 1994-02-24

1. The Roswell Incident

Air Date: 1995-08-31

A documentary made on the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, after the now infamous footage of an autopsy of an alien was published.

2. The Battle of Goose Green

Air Date: 1996-07-11

3. The Whitechapel Murders

Air Date: 1996-07-25

4. Mutiny in the RAF

Air Date: 1996-08-08

5. Harold Wilson - The Final Days

Air Date: 1996-08-15

6. Konkordski

Air Date: 1996-08-22

1. Hello Mr. President

Air Date: 1997-06-16

2. Lords of the Underworld

Air Date: 1997-06-23

3. The Tragedy of HMS Glorious

Air Date: 1997-06-30

4. Breaking the Sound Barrier

Air Date: 1997-07-07

5. Gold Fever

Air Date: 1997-07-14

6. Spying for Love

Air Date: 1997-07-21

7. The Forgotten Famine

Air Date: 1997-07-28

8. The Cawnpore Massacres

Air Date: 1997-08-04

9. Bloody Partition

Air Date: 1997-08-11

1. The Voyage of the Exodus

Air Date: 1998-05-11

2. The Porn King, the Stripper and the Bent Coppers

Air Date: 1998-05-18

3. The Chair

Air Date: 1998-05-25

4. Dad's Army

Air Date: 1998-06-01

5. Killer Flu

Air Date: 1998-06-08

6. Purple Secret - In Search of Royal Madness

Air Date: 1998-06-15

7. Winter of Discontent

Air Date: 1998-06-22

8. Witch Hunt

Air Date: 1998-06-29

9. D-Day Disaster

Air Date: 1998-07-06

10. Kinsey's Paedophiles

Air Date: 1998-07-13

1. The Great Train Robbery

Air Date: 1999-08-10

2. The Hidden Jews of Berlin

Air Date: 1999-08-17

3. Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail

Air Date: 1999-08-24

4. Mau Mau

Air Date: 1999-08-31

5. The People's Duchess

Air Date: 1999-09-07

6. Sex and the Swastika

Air Date: 1999-09-14

7. Bunny Girls

Air Date: 1999-09-21

8. Miracle on the River Kwai

Air Date: 1999-09-28

9. The Great Fog

Air Date: 1999-10-05

10. Execution at Camp 21

Air Date: 1999-10-12

1. The Duchess and the Headless Man

Air Date: 2000-08-10

2. Funny Money

Air Date: 2000-08-17

3. Last Train from Budapest

Air Date: 2000-08-24

4. Prisoners of the Kaiser

Air Date: 2000-08-31

5. Mutiny - The True Story of the Red October

Air Date: 2000-09-07

6. Natural Born Americans

Air Date: 2000-09-14

7. Children of the Iron Lung

Air Date: 2000-09-21

1. The Secret History of Hacking

Air Date: 2001-07-22

2. Orphans of the Airlift

Air Date: 2001-08-09

3. The Search for the Struma

Air Date: 2001-08-16

4. The Lost Legions of Varus

Air Date: 2001-08-23

5. Wartime Crime

Air Date: 2001-09-06

6. Spanish Armada

Air Date: 2001-09-13

7. The Falklands - Exocet!

Air Date: 2002-01-05

1. Charge of the Light Brigade

Air Date: 2002-06-06

2. The Comet Cover-Up

Air Date: 2002-06-13

3. Witchfinder General

Air Date: 2002-06-20

4. Magic at War

Air Date: 2002-06-27

5. The Crucified Soldier

Air Date: 2002-07-04

6. The War That Made the Nazis

Air Date: 2002-07-11

7. Horror on the Home Front

Air Date: 2002-07-18

8. Dogfight - The Mystery of the Red Baron

Air Date: 2002-07-25

1. Brighton Bomb

Air Date: 2003-05-15

2. Hitler of the Andes

Air Date: 2003-05-22

3. Costa del Crime

Air Date: 2003-05-29

4. The Affair

Air Date: 2003-06-05

5. The Strangest Viking

Air Date: 2003-06-12

1. Beasts of the Roman Games

Air Date: 2004-06-07

2. Britain's Boy Soldiers

Air Date: 2004-06-14

3. The Royal Mummy

Air Date: 2004-06-21

4. Sex Bomb

Air Date: 2004-06-28

5. Sink the Belgrano

Air Date: 2004-07-05

1. Tutankhamun: The Mystery of the Burnt Mummy

Air Date: 2013-11-10

Nearly a century after Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun, Egyptologist Dr. Chris Naunton returns to Carter's vast excavation files; the notes suggest that the Boy King's mummy was burned.

2. Queen Victoria And The Crippled Kaiser

Air Date: 2013-11-17

Documentary revealing the secret childhood of Queen Victoria's eldest grandson, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, through a long-hidden cache of intimate family letters. Wilhelm was born with a permanently paralyzed arm - a disability considered shameful at the time - and was subjected to a series of bizarre and often cruel attempts to cure the condition. These childhood experiences are believed to have helped create a highly dysfunctional connection between the boy and his mother, Victoria, Princess Royal, and to have shaped his love-hate relationship with her country.

3. Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden

Air Date: 2013-11-20

The Hanging Garden of Babylon is the only one of the seven wonders of the ancient world for which no archaeological evidence has ever been found. Centuries of digging have turned up nothing, and many people assume it never existed. But has everyone simply been looking in the wrong place?

4. New Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors

Air Date: 2014-03-23

The discovery of China's Terracotta Army in 1974 revealed just a fraction of this extraordinary treasure. This documentary has exclusive access to the latest discoveries.

5. WWII Dambusters' Great Escape

Air Date: 2014-03-30

Absolutely gripping story of the Lancaster pilots who launched an attack on the Tirpitz. These men on both sides are so heroic and dignified . We are so privileged to hear the story first hand from these men. Very moving .

6. Return of the Black Death

Air Date: 2014-04-06

Bubonic plague is still around today, but kills in small numbers. Why did it kill so many people in 1348? The discovery of 25 medieval skeletons in London provides new answers.

1. The Real Noah's Ark

Air Date: 2014-09-14

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2. Hitler's Hidden Drug Habit

Air Date: 2014-10-19

Hitler's Hidden Drug Habit Documentary discussing Hitler's fraudulent physician, his poor health and possible drug dependency.

3. WW1's Forgotten Heroes

Air Date: 2014-11-02

Former Royal Marines commando Arthur Williams embarks on a journey to explore the experiences of nearly two million British soldiers who suffered life-changing injuries and disabilities during the First World War.

4. The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

Air Date: 2014-11-30

With access to the first nationwide survey and state-of-the-art drones mapping the Great Wall of China, this documentary offers new evidence that reveals its extraordinary magnitude, rewrites its millennia-long history and decodes its complex signals system. Using cutting-edge chemistry, the programme also finds out what has kept the wall standing for so long - a simple cooking ingredient found in kitchens across the world.

1. London's Lost Graveyard - The Crossrail Discovery

Air Date: 2015-07-19

Engineers from the Crossrail construction project have uncovered a 300-year-old graveyard that reveals intriguing new information about the people who built London.

2. Prince Philip - The Plot to Make a King

Air Date: 2015-07-30

Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to manoeuvre his nephew and heir to the Greek throne, Philip, into marrying the future queen Princess Elizabeth and the tensions that that unleashed.

3. Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship

Air Date: 2015-08-04

Secret History has exclusive access behind the scenes of the momentous expedition that found HMS Erebus: the Royal Navy ship that disappeared in 1845 while searching for the Northwest Passage

4. The Other Prince William

Air Date: 2015-08-27

5. First Humans: The Cave Discovery

Air Date: 2015-09-27

Documentary following the discovery of fossilised remains in a deep and nearly inaccessible cave in South Africa. The bone fragments recovered were found to have come from a previously unknown species of human ancestor.

6. Cleopatra's Lost Tomb

Air Date: 2015-10-04

An insight into the pioneering work of criminal lawyer-turned-archaeologist Dr Kathleen Martinez, who has made it her life's mission to locate the final resting place of Cleopatra, Egypt's last queen.

7. China - Treasures of the Jade Empire

Air Date: 2015-10-18

A look at the relics found in the tombs of China's Han Dynasty - an era that is generally considered the golden age of ancient China. It's up there with the Roman Empire in terms of international power at the time and has been a defining influence on the country's cultural identity ever since, with China's majority ethnic group referring to itself as the "Han people" and the Chinese scripts referred to as "Han characters". This programme examines how the emperors arranged to have their dead bodies mummified in the search for immortality and looks at a newly discovered version of the famous terracotta army - sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.

8. Sex Change Spitfire Ace

Air Date: 2015-10-24

1. Shakespeare's Tomb

Air Date: 2016-04-19

Documentary focuses on investigating mysteries of burial grounds of William Shakespeare led by noted historian Dr. Helen Castor.

2. The Mystery of the Crossrail Skulls

Air Date: 2016-04-26

Engineers digging for Crossrail have made a chilling discovery: dozens of skulls under London's Liverpool Street station. It's clear the skulls are from Roman London, but nothing like this has been found before. This documentary unravels the mystery, using ground-breaking archaeological investigation. Who are these people and how did their skulls get there? There are many theories: they could be victims of a massacre, or gladiators; they could have naturally washed out of cemeteries in times of peace or be executed rebels; they could even be the victims of some grisly, long-lost ritual. Now the tools are available to solve the mystery. The investigation covers Boudicca's rebellion, the bloody gladiatorial arena, and head-hunting sites in France. Does the investigation answer the mystery of the Crossrail skulls?

3. Jutland - WW1's Greatest Sea Battle

Air Date: 2016-05-21

Thousands of British sailors died in the Battle of Jutland. It has been plagued by controversy ever since. This Secret History film joins a landmark expedition to uncover the truth about the battle.

4. Messages Home - Lost Films of the British Army

Air Date: 2016-06-26

5. China's Forgotten Emperor

Air Date: 2016-07-03

For 1300 years, Wu Zetian - China's only female Emperor - has been remembered as a callous tyrant who brought calamity to China. But new discoveries paint a very different picture of her reign.

6. Saddam Goes to Hollywood

Air Date: 2016-07-24

7. Heroes of Helmand - The British Army's Greatest Escape

Air Date: 2016-08-16

8. Secrets of a Police Marksman

Air Date: 2016-08-18

9. The Good Terrorist

Air Date: 2016-08-27

1. Titanic: The New Evidence

Air Date: 2017-01-01

Why, when the Titanic received several warnings of icebergs ahead, did the captain steam full speed towards them without changing course? Two hours after the collision, the Titanic was safely afloat before she inexplicably gave way and took hundreds of passengers to their deaths. What happened to make her sink so rapidly? For the first time, investigative journalist and Titanic expert Senan Molony can reveal the real story. In a television exclusive, Titanic: The New Evidence draws on new evidence to reveal that a fire was raging in Titanic's boiler rooms before she left port, that it was kept secret and, it's now believed it led to the tragedy.

2. Dunkirk: The New Evidence

Air Date: 2017-07-02

The soldiers were rescued from the beaches and taken safely back to Britain. But behind the Miracle of Dunkirk there's another, hidden story. Soldiers and mariners, angry that they'd apparently been left undefended against the Luftwaffe, blamed the RAF. Historians have long viewed Dunkirk as the RAF's poorest hour. But now, recently released MoD files reveal that, far from being absent, the RAF were suffering massive losses supporting the evacuation.

3. Secrets of China's Forbidden City

Air Date: 2017-07-09

The world's largest palace, the Forbidden City, stands at the heart of Chinese history, as the home to the emperors for 600 years. And it's full of secrets. This documentary goes behind closed doors to explore this extraordinary palace-city and to discover the clues to its creation. Unique access to the latest conservation works uncovers evidence hidden in locked halls and high in the mighty roofs, revealing a ruler who governed by fear but also created an exquisite and enormous work of art and technology.

4. Britain's Forgotten Army

Air Date: 2017-11-12