The BEST episodes of Secrets of the Dead season 9

Every episode of Secrets of the Dead season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Secrets of the Dead season 9!

Sometimes the truth gets carried to the grave. The techniques of modern forensic science are used to investigate a historical mystery to find proof of what really happened.

Last Updated: 12/7/2024Network: PBSStatus: Continuing
Mumbai Massacre
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7.00
3 votes

#1 - Mumbai Massacre

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/2009

Accounts of the survivors of the indiscriminate terrorist massacres in Mumbai by Islamic Extremests in November 2008 and how the news media aided the terrorist by giving away the hiding places of the soon to be victims.

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The Airmen and the Headhunters
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6.75
4 votes

#2 - The Airmen and the Headhunters

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2009

A tribe in Borneo protects a shot-down U.S. bomber crew from Japanese occupiers during World War II. The local missionaries, who converted the tribe to Christianity, were executed by the Japanese invaders, who had forced out Dutch and British colonialists, while massacring Borneo natives. A surviving missionary from Indonesia, employed by the Japanese military as an area administrator, outwits Japanese forces by hiding the U.S. airmen deep in a jungle canyon. The local Dayak people risk their lives, and force the occupiers to abandon their hunt for the airmen, using blowpipes and machetes against the Japanese army search parties.

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Japanese SuperSub
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5.67
6 votes

#3 - Japanese SuperSub

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/6/2010

During World War 2, Japan developed a super-submarine capable of launching bomber aircraft as a strategic weapon to carry the conflict to the United States mainland. But in the rapidly changing Pacific Theater, one intended mission after another becomes obsolete before the submarines can be deployed

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Michelangelo Revealed
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4.33
3 votes

#4 - Michelangelo Revealed

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/13/2009

More than five centuries ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Papacy commissioned him to create many of its most important pieces, including the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. He spent his life glorifying the Church, etching Catholic ideals into masterpieces that defined religion for the masses. Yet when he died, his body was secretly shepherded off to Florence, and the Church was denied the opportunity to honor him with a grand funeral in Rome. Historians have long wondered about the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, but now, art historian Antonio Forcellino believes he has pieced together evidence of a deep rift between the Church and the esteemed artist. The cause: Michelangelo’s belief in Protestant ideals, and his involvement with a clandestine fellowship trying to put an end to the decadence and corruption of the Clergy and reform the Church from within.