Secrets Declassified With David Duchovny

2 seasons available

David Duchovny investigates some of the most secretive, disturbing or strangest government activities that have been declassified through history.
Escaping Armageddon
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A NATO war game spooks the Soviets toward a potential nuclear strike, while a daring Cold War project produces a drone-bomber hybrid capable of carrying 16 nuclear weapons.

Secrets of the Skies
S1 E1

Uncovering a plane crash in North Carolina that almost triggered nuclear Armageddon; the story of a UFO attack on a U.S. missile base that was suppressed for decades; a daring Israeli heist to steal a cutting-edge fighter jet.

Black Sites
S1 E2

Discovering a deadly poison lab operated by the Soviet Union's infamous "Doctor Death," a vast nuclear missile site buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet, and the U.S. government's doomsday bunker concealed inside a hollowed-out mountain.

Extreme Missions
S1 E3

From the depths submarine divers have plunged to tap a secret Soviet communication line to the Special Ops team of suicidal soldiers sent to hand-deploy A-bombs in enemy territory, when is "Mission: Impossible" more than just a movie?

Strange Weapons
S1 E4

The top secret weapons programs that attempted to bring down the world.

Mind Games
S1 E5

From the CIA's decades-long pursuit of the perfect truth serum to the U.S. Army's secret PsyOps in Vietnam, mind games have long been at play among countries, its enemies and even its own citizens; every one a more alarming deception than the next.

Deep Cover
S1 E6

Undercover smokescreens driven by daring agents in service of executing a greater purpose.

Dark Science
S1 E7

Stalin's gruesome trials to create a hybrid human-ape super army; the eerie reason East Germany's Stasi collected the scents of dissidents in airtight jars; how the CIA uncovered a secret Soviet island devoted to developing deadly bioweapons.

Deep Space
S1 E8

Glimpses into NASA's covert plan to blow up the moon with a nuclear warhead, the Soviet Union's cover-up of history's deadliest space disaster, and how U.S. attempts to put spies in orbit paved the way for the first space station.

Spy Tech
S1 E9

From the seemingly innocuous children's toy engineered to save an informant, to hirsute-inspired movie disguises, the government's most clandestine inventions are never what one would suspect, and that's exactly why no one never saw them coming.

Unholy Alliances
S1 E10

When governments strike dark deals with cults, mobs and even sworn enemies, frosty relationships and mounting tensions are tested head on.