Secrets of the Dead

- Season 14

(2014)

How the JFK assassination was reported by journalists on the scene in Dallas and Walter Cronkite, who anchored CBS News coverage from New York. Included. The recollections of Dan Rather , Bob Schaeffer, Marvin Lamb. Narrated by George Clooney.

On his third and final journey to Africa, David Livingstone, one of the greatest explorers in history, kept a diary that's only now being deciphered. It shines a new light on the horrors of slave trade in Africa, and Livingstone himself.

Did Iberian Celts reach Brazil 1500 years before Columbus by joining the fleet of refugees from defeated Carthage in search of a new home like Peruvian Andes, where a strange tribe of "white Indians" known as the Chachapoya later lived?

Doctor Stephanie Dalley who dedicated her career to deciphering the ancient cuneiform texts that may contain the actual location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon travels to war-torn Iraq to find the place where they once stood.

From PBS - It is the most famous painting in the world, created by the hand of a genius, marvelled at by millions every year in the Louvre in Paris--but could there be a second Mona Lisa? In 1913, an interesting portrait surfaced, the so-called "Isleworth Mona Lisa." Using sophisticated scientific analysis, scientists will test both paintings to determine whether Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier version of the iconic portrait.

Scientists investigate whether Richard III was the villain Shakespeare describes in his plays or a warrior king who fell victim to a smear campaign propagated by his enemies after his ultimate defeat at Bosworth Field in 1485.