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.

Contents 1 Production 2 Episode guide 2.1 Series 1 2.2 Series 2 2.3 Series 3 2.4 Series 4 2.5 Series 5 2.6 Series 6 2.7 Series 7 2.8 Series 8 2.9 Series 9 2.10 Series 10 2.11 Series 11 2.12 Series 12 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Production

Secret History is "the home of single, hour-long history documentaries that shed new light on some of the most intriguing stories from the past. New evidence from excavation, research and investigation reveal strange, forgotten stories, and shed new light on the events we thought we knew well."^[1]

Secret History programmes "challenge accepted views of key events in history. Sometimes concealed, sometimes manipulated by the media, the truth has been submerged behind the headlines and the propaganda. From Roman legions to Nazi television, the series re-examined contemporary evidence, focusing on often shocking first-hand accounts and the ground-breaking views of leading experts."^[2]

In 1992, the show won the Royal Television Society award for Best Documentary Series.^[3]

[edit] Episode guide

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)*

* Originally scheduled for 18 Jul, the day after the crash of TWA Flight 800 - replaced with repeat of The Soviet Wives Affair.

Special

• Hello Mr President (21 Jan, 1997)

[edit] Series 5

• 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)

[edit] Series 6

• 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)

[edit] Series 7

• 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)

[edit] Series 8

• 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)

[edit] Series 9

• 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)

[edit] Series 10

• 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)

[edit] Series 11

• 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)
• Who Killed Shergar? (18 Mar, 2004)

[edit] Series 12

• 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)

[edit] External links

• Secret History episodes at tv.com

[edit] References

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