Season 3 Episodes
8 episodes1
Movies and the Mob
In 1930 organized crime infiltrates the movie industry.
2
Lenin's Secret Files
Vaults house the Soviet Union's Central Party archives.
3
Hillary and Tenzing: Everest and After
After the 1953 conquest of Everest, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay clash over the celebrity of the incident.
4
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
During World War II, 16,000 POWs die building the Bangkok-Rangoon Railway.
5
The African Trade
African participation in the slave trade.
6
The Chair
Edison and Westinghouse each try to have New York adopt the other's "executioner's current."
7
Cover Up! The Sinking of the SS Leopoldville
On Christmas Eve, 1944, a German U-boat sinks the SS Leopoldville with 800 Americans aboard.
8
Betrayal: The Story of the USS Pueblo
The crew of the USS Pueblo are captured and tortured by the North Koreans in 1968.