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Secret History was a long-running British television documentary series. Shown on Channel 4, the Secret History brandname was used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can still be found on US cable channels without the branding. It can be seen as Channel 4's answer to the BBC's Timewatch.
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8 Episodes
- Deep Sleep
E1Deep SleepThe extraordinary story of one of the most scandalous episodes in the history of psychiatry. This documentary tells how a leading Australian psychiatrist, Dr Harry Bailey, instigated an experimental program of "Deep Sleep therapy" and caused a string of deaths in an Australian hospital. Surviving patients and relatives of the deceased provide compelling testimonies. The film unmasks the doctors who assisted Bailey in a cover-up of his crimes. - Birds Of DeathE2
Birds Of DeathAfter the First World War, the newly formed RAF was used to bomb peasant villages as a cheap, quick, easy and casualty-free way to keep troublesome areas under control. Conveniently, it also tested new equipment and trained young airman. These included Sqdn-Ldr Kendall and Wing Commander Gale who describe the machine gunning and bombing of the Kurdish guerillas. - Drowning By BulletsE3
Drowning By BulletsDocumentary exposing the story behind a massacre of Algerian immigrants by police in Paris on October 17, 1961. 30,000 Algerians took part in a peaceful protest over the French-Algerian war. There were 11,000 arrests and allegedly 200 were killed. The programme shows how the French government suppressed the story for 30 years and interviews a number of those who took part in the events. - The Last Days of Aldo MoroE4
The Last Days of Aldo MoroA leader of Democrazia Cristiana (Christian Democracy, DC), Moro was considered an intellectual and a patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his party. He was kidnapped on March 16, 1978 by the Red Brigades (BR), a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization, and killed after 55 days of captivity. - The Hidden HolocaustE5
The Hidden HolocaustReports on the attempted genocide of more than 1.5 million Armenians by Turkish forces, begun in 1915, and the denial by successive Turkish governments. Traces the rise of the 'Young Turks' whose belief in the restoration of national honour, based on increased militarism and Turkish racial purity, was later reflected in Hitler's treatment of the Jews. - Death of a DemocratE6
Death of a DemocratLooks at the mystery surrounding the death of Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk who was found dead in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry in March 1948 two weeks after the Communists had seized power in Czechoslovakia. Reporter Tlmas Kotik argues that his death plunged Europe into the Cold War. - Bad BloodE7
Bad BloodIn 1932, 400 black men from Macon County, Alabama, suffering from syphilis were recruited for the Tuskegee medical study. They were not treated for syphilis. The purpose was to study the course of the untreated disease and to perform autopsies after death. Even after the discovery of penicillin during world War II they were given fake treatment. - The Robert Kennedy Assassination
E8The Robert Kennedy AssassinationTelevision documentary on the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, which illustrates arguments contrary to those which give Sirhan Sirhan as the lone assassin. Interviews with witnessess to the shooting and previously unseen police reconstructions suggest that Kennedy was killed by a gunman standing behind him, and not by Sirhan who was in front of him.