Season 2

20 episodes· 14 h 6 minMarch 17, 2026Returning

All episodes — Season 2

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S2 E1
43 min
Escaping Armageddon
Mar 17, 202643 min
In the razor's-edge theater of global brinkmanship, the world has come closer to annihilation than most ever knew. A NATO war game once spooked the Soviets toward a potential nuclear strike, while a daring Cold War project produced a drone-
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S2 E2
43 min
Top Secret Sites
Mar 24, 202643 min
Step inside hidden areas where history was steered in secret, from Churchill's wartime bunker, complete with a direct line to FDR concealed inside his private bathroom, to a Soviet weapons base in the desert exposed only by a daring U-2 spy
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S2 E3
43 min
Buried Secrets
Mar 31, 202643 min
David Duchovny exposes a clandestine nuclear blast set off deep below Mississippi soil, and secret experiments conducted on citizens in the New York subway system.
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S2 E4
43 min
Black Ops
Apr 7, 202643 min
A French Resistance operative hides explosives in baguettes to cripple a Nazi factory, an American soldier parachutes behind enemy lines to destroy critical supply routes, and Ukrainian forces deploy AI-guided drones to strike a Russian bom
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S2 E5
43 min
Bizarre Weapons
Apr 14, 202643 min
From a British scheme to launch airborne balloons against Nazi Germany, to American bats fitted with incendiary devices, to a covert effort to manipulate monsoon rains in Vietnam.
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S2 E6
42 min
Cracking The Code
Apr 21, 202642 min
A stranded American pilot in Vietnam is rescued through a code built around familiar golf courses, while Navajo Code Talkers transmit messages that help turn the tide in the Pacific during WWII.
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S2 E7
43 min
Secret Units
Apr 28, 202643 min
Behind official policy often stands unofficial actors. Discover the audacious operations of Red Cell.
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S2 E8
42 min
Extraordinary Experiments
May 5, 202642 min
Follow the secretive flights of Project Argus, that sent nuclear warheads into space to test whether radiation could cripple Soviet weapons, while Operation LAC covertly released chemical agents over American communities to simulate biologi
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S2 E9
42 min
Smoke and Mirrors
May 12, 202642 min
David Duchovny takes us into the long-spun elaborate tales governments have employed to blanket their boldest missions, showing us how the illusion works – or until it doesn't.
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S2 E10
42 min
Extreme Extractions
Jun 11, 202642 min
Some rescues read like Hollywood - except they were real. In Operation Halyard, villagers and resistance fighters built an airstrip by hand to spirit stranded airmen out of Nazi territory, while Operation Mount Hope saw American forces stea
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S2 E11
42 min
Masters of Deception
Jun 18, 202642 min
To outmaneuver the enemy, you have to sell the illusion. An FBI agent goes so deep undercover he's the best man at a Mafia wedding, while the Stasi deploys a covert network of charmers across borders to win trust and steal secrets. And in E
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S2 E12
42 min
Rogue Missions
Jun 25, 202642 min
Some missions are so risky, they're denied before they even begin. From a covert Mossad operation to abduct a Nazi war criminal in Argentina-identified through the smallest detail, the shape of his ears-to a chilling CIA plot that used a ja
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S2 E13
42 min
Covert Heists
Jul 2, 202642 min
Sometimes when governments can't negotiate their way to victory, they steal it; when the KGB sets its sights on a NATO missile, they enlist a smooth-talking German playboy armed with only a wheelbarrow, a carpet and a postage stamp; an Isra
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S2 E14
42 min
High Strangeness
Jul 9, 202642 min
When conventional tactics fail, governments have been known to test the boundaries of reality; in the darkest days of World War II, Britain turns to an astrologer who claims he can alter the course of war using the power of the stars; in th
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S2 E15
42 min
Dark Deals
Jul 16, 202642 min
Some deals are made to announce headlines, while others are steered in the shadows; when the CIA wants to take out the Iraqi Prime Minister, they turn to a 20-year-old law student named Saddam Hussein, while in Guatemala, a banana company c
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S2 E16
42 min
Hidden Bases
Jul 23, 202642 min
Some strongholds are built to defend a nation, others to survive its darkest hour. From deception to survival to espionage, these hidden sites reveal the lengths nations go to when the stakes couldn't be higher.
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S2 E17
42 min
Spy Gadgets
Jul 30, 202642 min
Every spy needs a cover story – and the best gadgets have one, too. In the jungles of Vietnam, the U.S. military built sensors that could sniff out hidden enemies. Sometimes the most dangerous weapon in the room is the one nobody realizes i
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S2 E18
42 min
Top Secret Tech
Aug 6, 202642 min
Before they became instruments of war, they sounded like impossible ideas. An American medical student develops a closed-circuit rebreather that allows Allied frogmen to slip beneath enemy harbors without a single bubble.
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S2 E19
42 min
Cat & Mouse
Aug 13, 202642 min
Some targets are taken by force, others require a game of cat and mouse played out across continents and years of relentless chase; when the DEA fails to corner an international arms dealer, they turn not to a spy, but to a retired bush pil
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S2 E20
42 min
Ingenious Disguises
Aug 20, 202642 min
Some disguises hide an individual, others conceal an entire operation. A CIA vaccination campaign masks a global manhunt for the world's most wanted terrorist. Sometimes the safest place to hide a secret is right out in the open.