8.2/109 votesLoading...#1 - Final Voyages
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/2015
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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8.1/108 votesLoading...#2 - Roads to Freedom
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/2015
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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8.1/108 votesLoading...#3 - D.C. Decoding
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/2015
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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8.0/1012 votesLoading...#4 - Founding Fathers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/10/2013
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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8.0/106 votesLoading...#5 - Bonus Round: Defending the Truth
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 6/4/2016
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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8.0/108 votesLoading...#6 - World War 2
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2017
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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7.9/1015 votesLoading...#7 - Flying Machines
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2013
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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7.9/108 votesLoading...#8 - Worlds of Amusement
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/6/2015
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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7.9/108 votesLoading...#9 - Welcome to the Big Apple
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/2015
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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7.9/1010 votesLoading...#10 - The Princess and the Pathfinders
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/2015
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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7.7/1011 votesLoading...#11 - Lost at Sea
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/2014
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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7.6/1011 votesLoading...#12 - Presidential Conspiracies
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/7/2013
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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7.6/1012 votesLoading...#13 - Booze and Bullets
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/2014
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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7.5/1013 votesLoading...#14 - Pilgrims and Witches
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/17/2013
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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7.5/1013 votesLoading...#15 - Last Man Standing
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/2014
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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7.5/1013 votesLoading...#16 - What Happens in Vegas...
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/2014
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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7.3/109 votesLoading...#17 - Seeing Isn't Believing
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2014
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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#18 - Tales of Sea and Sky
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 5/7/2016
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7.2/1017 votesLoading...#19 - Trick or Treat
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/24/2013
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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7.2/1011 votesLoading...#20 - Fool's Gold
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2014
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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7.2/1012 votesLoading...#21 - Masters of Illusion
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/2014
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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7.2/1011 votesLoading...#22 - Engineering the Impossible
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/30/2014
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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7.2/109 votesLoading...#23 - Top Secret Vaults
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/3/2015
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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7.2/108 votesLoading...#24 - The Rock and the Bridge
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/2015
Myths obscure the real facts about two San Francisco landmarks: Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. If Alcatraz was so harsh, why did inmates ask to be transferred there? And why did the Navy want to paint the bridge a garish yellow and black?
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7.2/106 votesLoading...#25 - Unwrapping the Holidays
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/2015
Myths and misconceptions surround our celebrations of Christmas and New Year's Eve. Learn how the Santa we cherish is actually the product of three New Yorkers and how the Times Square Ball drop is based on a bygone system of standardizing time.
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The Best Episodes of America: Facts vs. Fiction
Every episode of America: Facts vs. Fiction ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of America: Facts vs. Fiction!
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Best Episodes Summary
"Final Voyages" is the best rated episode of "America: Facts vs. Fiction". It scored 8.2/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/8/2015. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Roads to Freedom".