Secrets of the Dead - Season 2

These six episodes of this PBS documentary series are adapted from the UK series of the same name, but are re-edited, re-branded, and re-narrated by Liev Schreiber.

6 Episodes

Witches Curse

Season 2 - Episode 1

(Disease & Disaster) “The Witches Curse” poses a shocking new idea about the violent convulsions, delirium, and strange skin sensations ...

Murder at Stonehenge

Season 2 - Episode 2

A mysterious skeleton buried in a shallow grave beneath a famous ancient monument. Who was he? How long had he been there? And why had his h...

Death at Jamestown

Season 2 - Episode 3

The settlers at Jamestown, the first British colony in the New World, were looking for wealth and adventure. But within six months 80 of the...

Day of the Zulu

Season 2 - Episode 4

During the Anglo-Zulu wars in South Africa, the success of small British regiments against huge numbers of native warriors became the stuff ...

Tomb of Christ

Season 2 - Episode 5

For centuries, visitors to the Church of the Holy Seplulchre in Jerusalem believed that they stood within what was merely a symbolic represe...

The Syphilis Enigma

Season 2 - Episode 6

In 1492, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in search of gold. But what his men carried back with them to Europe was something far le...