Secrets of the Dead 2000
“Unearthing History”
- Status
- Returning Series
- First Aired
- May 15, 2000
- Last Aired
- February 4, 2026
- Format
- 23 seasons · 123 eps
- Total Runtime
- ~114.8 hours (56 min/ep)
- Highest Rated Episode
- S15E1 "Vampire Legend" (★ 10/10)
- Network
- PBS
- Where to Stream
- YouTube TV, PBS, Thirteen
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★ TMDB users: 6.4/10 from 21 votes NR DocumentaryMystery 23 seasons · 123 eps Returning Series
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What is Secrets of the Dead?
"Secrets of the Dead" is a television series that combines elements of detective stories and true-life dramas to explore historical events. The series uses various investigative techniques, forensic science, and historical examination to examine iconic moments in history.
- Type
- TV series
- Year
- 2000
- Status
- Returning Series
- Episodes
- 123
- Runtime
- 56 minutes
- First aired
- May 15, 2000
- Last aired
- Feb 4, 2026
- Original language
- EN
- Origin
- GB, US
- Networks
- PBS
- Genres
- Documentary, Mystery
- Updated
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- Rating
- ★ TMDB users: 6.4/10 from 21 votes
- Format
- 23 seasons · 123 episodes
- Episode runtime
- ~56 minutes
- Status
- Returning Series
- Network
- PBS
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"Secrets of the Dead" is a television series that combines elements of detective stories and true-life dramas to explore historical events. The series uses various investigative techniques, forensic science, and historical examination to examine iconic moments in history. It aims to shed new light on past events by debunking myths and challenging prevailing ideas. The series employs the latest investigative techniques and scientific methods to re-examine historical hypotheses. It also spotlights forgotten mysteries and ultimately presents new perspectives on historical events. The series' approach involves a thorough examination of historical evidence and the application of modern scientific methods to shed new light on the past. By using these techniques, the series seeks to rewrite history and provide a fresh understanding of significant events.
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Should you watch it?
“Investigate iconic historical moments using forensic science and modern techniques.”
Reasons to watch
- uses forensic science and historical examination
- debunks myths and sheds new light on past events
- explores iconic moments in history
Keep in mind
- may challenge accepted historical wisdom
Watch it if you enjoy true-life drama combined with detective-style historical investigations.
The series deals with historical events and investigations in a dramatic documentary format.
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Cast
Liev Schreiber
Narrator
Roy Scheider
Narrator
Jay O. Sanders
Narrator (voice)
☻
David Keys
Himself - Scientist ☻
Jonathan Petropoulos
Self ☻
Georgi Markov
☻
Ian Knight
Himself - Historian ☻
Tony Pollard
Himself - Archaeologist ☻
Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball
herself ☻
Linnda R. Caporael
herself ☻
Addison Bain
himself ☻
Mike Pitts
Himself - Archaeologist
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Season 1 · 5 episodes
Open the complete Season 1 guide & lore primer →- E1 Catastrophe (1) Mytharc May 15, 2000
- E2 Catastrophe (2) Core May 15, 2000
- E3 The Lost Vikings Core May 16, 2000
- E4 What Happened to the Hindenburg? Core Jun 15, 2000
- E5 Cannibalism in the Canyon Mytharc May 17, 2000
Season 2 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 2 guide & lore primer →- E1 Witches Curse Mytharc Jun 26, 2001
- E2 Murder at Stonehenge Core Jul 3, 2001
- E3 Death at Jamestown Core Jul 10, 2001
- E4 Day of the Zulu Mytharc Jul 17, 2001
- E5 Tomb of Christ Mytharc Jul 24, 2001
- E6 The Syphilis Enigma Mytharc Jul 31, 2001
Season 3 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 3 guide & lore primer →- E1 Search for the First Human Mytharc May 8, 2001
- E2 Mystery of the Black Death Core Oct 30, 2002
- E3 Titanic's Ghosts Core Nov 20, 2002
- E4 The Great Fire of Rome Core Nov 27, 2002
- E5 Tragedy at the Pole Mytharc Jan 15, 2003
- E6 Bombing Nazi Dams Mytharc Feb 12, 2003
Season 4 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 4 guide & lore primer →- E1 Blood Red Roses Mytharc Nov 1, 2003
- E2 Bridge on the River Kwai Core Nov 12, 2003
- E3 Killer Flu Core Mar 3, 2004
- E4 Shroud of Christ? Core Apr 11, 2004
- E5 D-Day Mytharc May 19, 2004
- E6 Amazon Warrior Women Mytharc Aug 4, 2004
Season 5 · 5 episodes
Open the complete Season 5 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Hunt for Nazi Scientists Mytharc Oct 19, 2005
- E2 Gangland Graveyard Core Nov 16, 2005
- E3 Voyage of the Courtesans Core Nov 23, 2005
- E4 The Sinking of the Andrea Doria Core Jul 26, 2006
- E5 Umbrella Assassin Mytharc Oct 4, 2006
Season 6 · 5 episodes
Open the complete Season 6 guide & lore primer →- E1 Dogfight Over Guadalcanal Mytharc Nov 8, 2006
- E2 Battle for the Bible Core Apr 25, 2007
- E3 Herculaneum Uncovered Core May 2, 2007
- E4 Headless Romans Core May 9, 2007
- E5 Irish Escape Mytharc May 16, 2007
Season 7 · 2 episodes
Open the complete Season 7 guide & lore primer →- E1 Aztec Massacre Mytharc Apr 23, 2008
- E2 Escape from Auschwitz Mytharc Apr 30, 2008
Season 8 · 4 episodes
Open the complete Season 8 guide & lore primer →- E1 Doping for Gold Mytharc May 7, 2008
- E2 Sinking Atlantis Core May 14, 2008
- E3 Executed in Error Core Oct 1, 2008
- E4 Blackbeard's Lost Ship Mytharc Apr 22, 2009
Season 9 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 9 guide & lore primer →- E1 Michelangelo Revealed Mytharc May 13, 2009
- E2 Airmen and the Headhunters Core Nov 11, 2009
- E3 Mumbai Massacre Core Nov 25, 2009
- E4 Japanese SuperSub Core May 5, 2010
- E5 Churchill's Deadly Decision Mytharc May 12, 2010
- E6 Deadliest Battle Mytharc May 19, 2010
Season 10 · 3 episodes
Open the complete Season 10 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Silver Pharaoh Mytharc Nov 3, 2010
- E2 Slave Ship Mutiny Core Nov 10, 2010
- E3 Lost Ships of Rome Mytharc Nov 17, 2010
Season 11 · 3 episodes
Open the complete Season 11 guide & lore primer →- E1 Lost In The Amazon Mytharc Apr 20, 2011
- E2 China's Terracotta Warriors Core May 4, 2011
- E3 The World’s Biggest Bomb Mytharc May 17, 2011
Season 12 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 12 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Man Who Saved the World Mytharc Oct 23, 2012
- E2 Bugging Hitler's Soldiers Core May 1, 2013
- E3 Death on the Railroad Core May 8, 2013
- E4 Cavemen Cold Case Core May 15, 2013
- E5 Ultimate Tut Mytharc Jul 10, 2013
- E6 Bones of the Buddha Mytharc Jul 23, 2013
Season 13 · 7 episodes
Open the complete Season 13 guide & lore primer →- E1 JFK: One PM Central Standard Time Mytharc Nov 13, 2013
- E2 The Lost Diary of Dr. Livingstone Mytharc Mar 26, 2014
- E3 Carthage's Lost Warriors Core Apr 2, 2014
- E4 The Lost Gardens of Babylon Core May 6, 2014
- E5 The Mona Lisa Mystery Core Jul 9, 2014
- E6 Dick Cavett's Watergate Mytharc Aug 8, 2014
- E7 Resurrecting Richard III Mytharc Sep 24, 2014
Season 14 · 3 episodes
Open the complete Season 14 guide & lore primer →- E1 Ben Franklin’s Bones Mytharc Jan 28, 2015
- E2 JFK & LBJ: A Time For Greatness Core Aug 4, 2015
- E3 The Real Trojan Horse Mytharc Oct 13, 2015
Season 15 · 5 episodes
Open the complete Season 15 guide & lore primer →- E1 Vampire Legend Mytharc Oct 27, 2015
- E2 Jamestown's Dark Winter Core Nov 24, 2015
- E3 The Alcatraz Escape Core Mar 29, 2016
- E4 Cleopatra's Lost Tomb Core May 17, 2016
- E5 Teotihuacan's Lost Kings Mytharc May 24, 2016
Season 16 · 5 episodes
Open the complete Season 16 guide & lore primer →- E1 After Stonehenge Mytharc Oct 26, 2016
- E2 Graveyard of the Giant Beasts Mytharc Nov 2, 2016
- E3 Van Gogh's Ear Core Dec 14, 2016
- E4 Nero's Sunken City Core Mar 29, 2017
- E5 Leonardo: The Man Who Saved Science Mytharc Apr 5, 2017
Season 17 · 7 episodes
Open the complete Season 17 guide & lore primer →- E1 Scanning the Pyramids Mytharc Jan 24, 2018
- E2 Hannibal in the Alps Core Apr 10, 2018
- E3 The Woman in the Iron Coffin Core Oct 3, 2018
- E4 The Nero Files Core Feb 20, 2019
- E5 King Arthur's Lost Kingdom Core Mar 27, 2019
- E6 Egypt's Darkest Hour Mytharc Apr 3, 2019
- E7 World War Speed Mytharc Jun 25, 2019
Season 18 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 18 guide & lore primer →- E1 Galileo's Moon Mytharc Jul 2, 2019
- E2 Bombing Auschwitz Core Jan 21, 2020
- E3 Building Notre Dame Core Apr 8, 2020
- E4 Viking Warrior Queen Core Jul 7, 2020
- E5 Abandoning The Titanic Mytharc Nov 4, 2020
- E6 Gangster's Gold Mytharc Nov 18, 2020
Season 19 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 19 guide & lore primer →- E1 Magellan’s Crossing Mytharc Oct 20, 2021
- E2 Lady Sapiens Core Oct 27, 2021
- E3 The First Circle of Stonehenge Mytharc Nov 3, 2021
- E4 Hindenburg’s Fatal Flaws Mytharc Nov 10, 2021
- E5 A Samurai in the Vatican Mytharc Nov 17, 2021
- E6 The Caravaggio Heist Mytharc Nov 24, 2021
Season 20 · 7 episodes
Open the complete Season 20 guide & lore primer →- E1 Archaeology at Althorp Mytharc Oct 9, 2022
- E2 Last Days of Pompeii Core Oct 19, 2022
- E3 The End of The Romans Core Oct 26, 2022
- E4 Decoding Hieroglyphics Core Nov 2, 2022
- E5 Hidden In The Amazon Core Nov 9, 2022
- E6 The Sunken Basilica Mytharc Oct 11, 2023
- E7 Jurassic Fortunes Mytharc Oct 18, 2023
Season 21 · 6 episodes
Open the complete Season 21 guide & lore primer →- E1 Eiffel's Race to the Top Mytharc Oct 25, 2023
- E2 Death in Britannia Core Nov 1, 2023
- E3 The Princes in the Tower Mytharc Nov 22, 2023
- E4 Returning to Babylon Core Oct 2, 2024
- E5 Mozart's Sister Mytharc Oct 9, 2024
- E6 The Herculaneum Scrolls Mytharc Oct 16, 2024
Season 22 · 10 episodes
Open the complete Season 22 guide & lore primer →- E1 The Civil War's Lost Massacre Mytharc Oct 23, 2024
- E2 Field of Vampires Core Oct 30, 2024
- E3 Lost Treasures of Angkor – The Discovery Core Nov 13, 2024
- E4 Lost Treasures of Angkor – King's Gold Core Nov 20, 2024
- E5 Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief (Part One) Mytharc Feb 19, 2025
- E6 Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief (Part Two) Mytharc Feb 26, 2025
- E7 The Rise & Fall of the Colosseum Mytharc Oct 8, 2025
- E8 Cleopatra's Last Temple Core Oct 15, 2025
- E9 Cracking the Queen's Code Mytharc Oct 22, 2025
- E10 Chasing the Plague Mytharc Oct 29, 2025
Season 23 · 4 episodes
Open the complete Season 23 guide & lore primer →- E1 Picturing Shakespeare Mytharc Nov 12, 2025
- E2 Queens of Combat Core Jan 28, 2026
- E3 The Quest for Camelot Core Feb 4, 2026
- E4 China's Bronze Kingdom Mytharc May 27, 2026
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Frequently asked questions
What is Secrets of the Dead?
It is a long-running series that explores iconic moments in history to debunk myths and shed new light on past events.
When did the series start?
The series premiered in the year 2000.
What methods does the show use?
It uses the latest investigative techniques, forensic science, and historical examination.
What genres does the series fall under?
It is classified as documentary and mystery.
What is the goal of the investigations?
The goal is to shatter accepted wisdom, challenge prevailing ideas, overturn existing hypotheses, and rewrite history.
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