E1 - The Man Who Saved the World

Aired: October 23, 2012

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

E2 - Bugging Hitler's Soldiers

Aired: May 01, 2013

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

E3 - Death on the Railroad

Aired: May 08, 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.

E4 - Cavemen Cold Case

Aired: May 15, 2013

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

E5 - Ultimate Tut

Aired: July 10, 2013

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

E6 - Bones of the Buddha

Aired: July 23, 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.