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Secrets of the Dead

Secrets of the Dead - Season 12 (2012)

Audience Score
63

Season 12 Episodes

1. The Man Who Saved the World

October 23rd, 2012

An officer aboard a Soviet submarine refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

2. Bugging Hitler's Soldiers

May 1st, 2013

German POWs reveal inner thoughts about the Third Reich, including military secrets that helped the Allies win World War II.

3. Death on the Railroad

May 8th, 2013

Forensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months after arriving in Pennsylvania to work on the railroad.

4. Cavemen Cold Case

May 15th, 2013

Scientists say some of the 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidrón, Spain, bear signs of cannibalism.

5. Ultimate Tut

July 10th, 2013

New scientific research provides insights into how King Tutankhamen was buried, why his tomb remained intact and how he died.

6. Bones of the Buddha

July 23rd, 2013

Bones 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.

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