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Secrets of the Dead

Season 12

2012 · 6 episodes

Episodes

1The Man Who Saved the WorldAn officer aboard a Soviet submarine refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
2Bugging Hitler's SoldiersGerman POWs reveal inner thoughts about the Third Reich, including military secrets that helped the Allies win World War II.
3Death on the RailroadForensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months after arriving in Pennsylvania to work on the railroad.
4Cavemen Cold CaseScientists say some of the 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidrón, Spain, bear signs of cannibalism.
5Ultimate TutNew scientific research provides insights into how King Tutankhamen was buried, why his tomb remained intact and how he died.
6Bones of the BuddhaBones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.