Season 4 Episodes
1. S4 E1 · Clouds of Death: The Scourge of Biochemical Warfare
Terrorists find chemical and biological weapons a cost-effective alternative to nuclear arms.
2. S4 E2 · The Doomsday Flu
The influenza epidemic of 1918 kills 22 million people worldwide.
3. S4 E3 · The Port Chicago Mutiny
Fifty black sailors rebel in protest of unsafe working conditions after two ammunition ships blow up in port during World War II.
4. S4 E4 · Kennedy and Nixon
Friendship between JFK and Richard Nixon becomes intense rivalry.
5. S4 E5 · Duel in the Desert
North African theater of war; El Alamein; Rommel vs. Montgomery.
6. S4 E6 · Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria
The Japanese army seeks to develop biological weapons during World War II.
7. S4 E7 · Deadly Crossing
Subs race to rescue men at sea; only 127 of the 2,000 survive.
8. S4 E8 · Yanks for Stalin
In the Depression, U.S. executives tried to guide Soviet industry.
9. S4 E9 · Banking With Hitler
Banks from the United States, England and Switzerland helped fund the Nazi regime.
10. S4 E10 · To the Edge of Space: Project Manhigh
Altitude tests take place in 1950s New Mexico.
11. S4 E11 · The Rape of Nanking
The massacre at Nanking, when Japanese troops overcame a Chinese defense and slaughtered 350,000 prisoners and civilians.
12. S4 E12 · Secret Luftwaffe Aircraft of WWII
The development of Hitler's airborne arsenal, including Luftwaffe's swept-wing and vertical take-off aircraft and stealth bombers.
13. S4 E13 · The Ace: The Story of Johannes Steinhoff
A former Luftwaffe pilot moves up to become head of the West German Air Force.
14. S4 E14 · Top Secret: Spy Planes of the Cold War
New information about secret spy plane missions flown over communist territories during the Cold War.
15. S4 E15 · Inferno: The True Story of Dresden
Operation Thunderclap rained tons of bombs on Dresden, Germany.
16. S4 E16 · The Last Cold Warrior
A Russian defector damages the KGB.
17. S4 E17 · Churchill and the President
U.S. soldiers man the SIGSALY system in a London department store.
18. S4 E18 · Mystery of the U2
The Soviets shoot down an American spy plane.
19. S4 E19 · Code Name: Project Orion
In the 1950s, plans arise to send a giant, manned spaceship to other planets.
20. S4 E20 · U.S.S. Iowa Explosion
A 1989 explosion on the USS Iowa kills 47 crew members.
21. S4 E21 · The Secret Bunker
The secret duck-and-cover plan during the Cold War included underground bunkers which would have protected top officials if the Soviets attacked.
22. S4 E22 · Pope John XXIII
A farmer's son becomes Pope John XXIII and stirs up an ecumenical hornet's nest.
23. S4 E23 · John Paul I and His Mysterious Death
The sudden death of Pope John Paul I gives rise to rumours of a murder plot.
24. S4 E24 · Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II does not allow compromise on moral issues.