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The Best Episodes of America: Facts vs. Fiction

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The Best Episodes of America: Facts vs. Fiction

History as we generally know it is full of holes or half-truths, and a mother lode of juicy details have been lost, distorted, covered up...

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  1. Background image for Bad Medicine
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Bad Medicine

    S5:E12

    America's medical history is infected with myths. George Washington's doctors may have inadvertently killed him; Abraham Lincoln used a toxic remedy that warped his mind; and heroin was once a best-selling cough suppressant.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Final Voyages
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    #2 - Final Voyages

    S3:E10

    Myths cloud the facts of the Titanic and Hindenburg disasters. Few know that the Titanic nearly hit another obstacle days before it struck the iceberg - or that the radio broadcast of the Hindenburg's destruction is distorted by a technical flaw.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Roads to Freedom
    8.1/10(8 votes)

    #3 - Roads to Freedom

    S3:E8

    Myths obscure the truth about the Underground Railroad and the Women's Suffrage Movement. Black leaders, not white, dominated the system that brought hundreds of slaves to freedom. And women's fight for the vote was more violent than we remember.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.1/10(8 votes)

    #4 - D.C. Decoding

    S3:E9

    Myths surround the landmarks of Washington, D.C. Few realize that the remains of the original White House are buried under a baseball diamond in Virginia - or that thousands of people have literally jumped over the top of the Washington Monument.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Founding Fathers
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #5 - Founding Fathers

    S1:E2

    We think we know the true story of the birth of the United States but there is a whole other story. In this episode of America's Facts Vs. Fiction, we learn who else rode with Paul Revere and that George Washington wasn't really our first President.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Bonus Round: Defending the Truth
    8.0/10(7 votes)

    #6 - Bonus Round: Defending the Truth

    S4:E9

    True tales of women at war, including those that worked at manufacturing jobs, as WASPS, as computers, code breakers and spies and the 500 who died as a result of enemy action. Fact and fiction in historical photographs.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #7 - World War 2

    S5:E1

    The war waged by America's greatest generation is obscured by myth. Few remember that an American admiral played a pivotal role in showing Japan how to attack Pearl Harbor or that the German army was not the mechanized wonder it's reputed to be.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Flying Machines
    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #8 - Flying Machines

    S1:E1

    Flying devices have been created to take us all around the world and even into space. On America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn how Apollo 11 only made it home thanks to a pen and that Air Force One is a code name and not the actual name of the plane.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Worlds of Amusement
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    #9 - Worlds of Amusement

    S3:E2

    Amusement parks and world's fairs are examined. Included: the history of roller-coasters and how world's fairs recalled as family-friendly endeavors actually featured nudity.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Welcome to the Big Apple
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    #10 - Welcome to the Big Apple

    S3:E3

    Myths obscure the facts about two Manhattan landmarks - the Empire State Building and Grand Central. Discover why a penny tossed from the top of the skyscraper won't kill anyone, and the real story of Grand Central's "secret" train platform.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #11 - The Princess and the Pathfinders

    S3:E4

    Myths obscure the truth about Pocahontas and America's renowned explorers, Lewis and Clark. We remember Pocahontas and John Smith as lovers - but she actually married another John. And Lewis and Clark's exploits were forgotten for a century.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Presidential Conspiracies
    7.8/10(12 votes)

    #12 - Presidential Conspiracies

    S1:E6

    With our greatest Presidents, we have to differentiate between the man and the legend. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fiction learn FDR may have never had polio and Abraham Lincoln and JFK don't have all that much in common.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Lost at Sea
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #13 - Lost at Sea

    S2:E3

    Myths cloud the real facts of history on the high seas. Find out what pirates really did with their treasure instead of burying it - and discover the truth behind the seemingly baffling disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle.

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    Director:Unknown
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    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #14 - Booze and Bullets

    S2:E4

    Our memories of the roaring twenties and lawless thirties are more myth than truth. Learn the shocking realities about prohibition and that rogue's gallery of gangsters including John Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Pilgrims and Witches
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #15 - Pilgrims and Witches

    S1:E3

    The roots of America can be traced to the first settlers that came there. In this episode of America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that the Pilgrim "Thanksgiving" was about fasting and the only "witchcraft" in Salem was done by a group of young girls.

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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Last Man Standing
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #16 - Last Man Standing

    S2:E2

    The true stories of the Alamo and Custer's Last Stand are very different from the way we remember them. Find out how Davy Crockett really died - and why General Custer might have been court-martialed if he hadn't attacked the Indians that outnumbered him.

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    Director:Unknown
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    7.5/10(13 votes)

    #17 - What Happens in Vegas...

    S2:E10

    Myths obscure the truth about Las Vegas. In this episode of America: Facts vs. Fiction, learn that gambling wasn't the first enterprise to pour billions into Nevada's economy - and that Hoover Dam's concrete hasn't finished hardening.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Red, White and True?
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #18 - Red, White and True?

    S2:E6

    Myths and misconceptions surround our most revered patriotic symbols. Learn how the Statue of Liberty was originally intended to stand in Egypt, how the American Flag wasn't designed by Betsy Ross, and that Mount Rushmore is actually uncompleted.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Seeing Isn't Believing
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #19 - Seeing Isn't Believing

    S2:E9

    On this episode, we look further into some of the most iconic photos and footage from the Civil War, Great Depression, and World War 2. By looking beyond the celluloid and the flash bulbs we find a story as interesting as the moments themselves.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Tales of Sea and Sky
    7.3/10(6 votes)

    #20 - Tales of Sea and Sky

    S4:E5

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Trick or Treat
    7.2/10(17 votes)

    #21 - Trick or Treat

    S1:E4

    We don't always know the truth behind what scares us. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that our Halloween's origins aren't all that ancient and that Edgar Allan Poe is not the madman that others have made him out to be.

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    Director:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Fool's Gold
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Fool's Gold

    S2:E1

    The real facts behind America's biggest economic boom and biggest bust will shock you. On this episode of America: Facts vs. Fiction, discover a treasure of nuggets about the California gold rush and the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Masters of Illusion
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    #23 - Masters of Illusion

    S2:E8

    Much of what we know about America's showmen is myth, not truth. Discover how Harry Houdini didn't die escaping from his famous torture cell - and how P.T. Barnum doubled his profits by manufacturing doubt about the authenticity of his own exhibits.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Engineering the Impossible
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #24 - Engineering the Impossible

    S2:E12

    The truth about great feats of engineering can be clouded by myth. Discover that the Panama Canal doesn't run east and west, but north and south. And that the Transcontinental Railroad wasn't completed at Utah's Promontory Point.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Top Secret Vaults
    7.2/10(9 votes)

    #25 - Top Secret Vaults

    S3:E6

    Myths surround America's most secret vaults. The interior of Fort Knox looks nothing like it does in the movie "Goldfinger" and the $250 billion of gold in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is protected by low-tech technology built in 1924.

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    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Bad Medicine" is the best rated episode of "America: Facts vs. Fiction". It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/11/2017. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Final Voyages".