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Unsolved History is an American documentary television series that aired from 2002 to 2005. The program was produced by MorningStar Entertainment, Termite Art Productions, Lions Gate Television, and Discovery Communications for the Discovery Channel. The series lasted over three seasons and had a total of 47 episodes, in which a team of people, each with different skills, try to solve historical mysteries. As of 2007, the series airs on Investigation Discovery and occasionally on the Science Channel. However, episodes regarding the military are sometimes aired on the Military Channel.
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Episode 1 - Death of Marilyn Monroe
Release Date: 2003-10-01In 1962, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her California home. While the coroner ruled her death a probable suicide, there was minimal investigation and rumors of conspiracy and cover-up persist to this day. Find out how Marilyn Monroe really died.
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Episode 2 - Roswell: Flying Saucers Over America
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Episode 3 - Salem Witch Trials
Release Date: 2003-10-22The Salem Witch trials of 1692 were one of the darkest periods in early American history. Over 100 people were imprisoned and 37 were killed because of their purported involvement with witchcraft. Find out what caused the hysteria.
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Episode 4 - JFK: The Conspiracy Myths
Release Date: 2003-11-19After 40 years, the assassination of President Kennedy remains unsolved. Government investigations have provided the American public with few answers. Dramatic demonstrations of the events in Dealey Plaza shed new light on the web of conspiracy theories.
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Episode 5 - The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Release Date: 2004-02-10On February 14, 1929, four men armed with submachine guns cut down seven mobsters in Chicago. Ironically, this famous mob event spawned the Chicago crime lab, introducing ballistics, polygraph, chemical analysis and forensic pathology to police work.
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Episode 6 - Aztec Temple of Blood
Release Date: 2004-01-21An Aztec sacrifice of 20,000 people over a period of four days in 1411 is examined. The sacrifice consisted of a sacrificial priest cutting the person's skin beneath the rib cage, reaching up and cutting the arteries and veins attached to their heart and pulling it out. Then the body was pushed down the stairs of the altar. After an examination, it is proven that this many people could be sacrificed in such a small amount of time.
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Episode 7 - Myths of Pearl Harbor
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Episode 8 - The Plots to Kill Lincoln
Release Date: 2004-02-04Before he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln was the target of at least five other assassination conspiracies. Using forensic analysis and reenactments, each of these forgotten plots are examined.
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Episode 9 - Nostradamus
Release Date: 2004-01-07Experts use forensic techniques to translate and verify what Nostradamus ""really"" predicted. Fact is separated from fiction as it relates to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
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Episode 10 - The Great Chicago Fire
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Episode 11 - Jack the Ripper
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Episode 12 - Killing Hitler
Release Date: 2004-02-24On July 20, 1944, members of Hitler's General Staff detonated a bomb designed to kill their leader and his henchman. The bombing was to lead to the overthrow of Nazi Germany and an early end to the war. Find out why this famous coup failed.
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Episode 13 - Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
Release Date: 2004-04-07In 1968 as Senator Robert F. Kennedy left a political rally in a Los Angeles hotel, shots rang out leaving him mortally wounded. Who really fired the fatal shot that killed Senator Kennedy? Was it a lone gunman, a young Palestinian, named Sirhan Sirhan?
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Episode 14 - Hunting Nazis
Release Date: 2004-05-05After World War II almost 30,000 war criminals escaped from Europe. Was Dr. Mengele part of a Fourth Reich dedicated to evil plots to restore Nazi power? The truth is that Mengele, like many ex-Nazis, led a pathetic hunted animal existence after the war.
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Episode 15 - The Trojan Horse
Release Date: 2004-05-12An ancient story tells us that a mighty Greek armada of a thousand ships sailed across the Mediterranean Sea to wage war on Troy. Bent on vengeance for the abduction of the beautiful Helen by the Trojan prince Paris, the Greeks lay siege to the great city.
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Episode 16 - Suicide Bombers
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Episode 19 - Ninjas
Release Date: 2004-06-02The myths surrounding the Ninja, the mysterious elite fighting force of feudal Japan, are explored
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Episode 20 - Flight KAL-007
Release Date: 2004-07-15The Korean Airlines 747 shot down in 1983 is investigated using 21st century technology and science.
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Episode 21 - In Search of D.B. Cooper
Release Date: 2004-08-07Forensic techniques are used to examine the disappearance of D.B. Cooper, who parachuted from an airplane in 1971 with a stolen $200,000.
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Episode 22 - Butch and Sundance
Release Date: 2004-08-15The rumored survival of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from their famous 1908 shootout in Bolivia is investigated.
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Episode 23 - The Bermuda Triangle
Release Date: 2004-09-16The mysterious disappearances of boats and planes in the Bermuda Triangle are investigated.