NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Presidential Special
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 4/15/2016
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#2 - Epic Interventions
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2016
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#3 - Discovering America
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2016
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#4 - The Great Escape
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2016
The "facts" of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of Little Big Horn vs. the "fiction".
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#5 - Saluting the Truth
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2016
Profiles of U.S. generals, including George Patton and Ulysses S. Grant. Also: a look back at the Roaring '20s and the lawlessness of the 1930s.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Bad Medicine
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 3/11/2017
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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Moments That Changed History
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 3/18/2017
Myths and misconceptions surround four pivotal historic moments: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Boston Tea Party in 1773, and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Bonus Round: Fire in the Sky
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/2017
On this special edition of America: Facts vs. Fiction, we explore the myths behind extraterrestrial spacecraft and we learn the truth of two pioneering flights.
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5.3/106 votesLoading...#9 - Space: The Final Frontier
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/4/2017
Myths eclipse the real facts about NASA's dramatic rescue of three astronauts aboard the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft; and Hollywood movies have a hit-and-miss track record of depicting the realties of interstellar exploration.
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5.4/107 votesLoading...#10 - Secret Societies
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 2/4/2017
Much of what we know about America's secret societies is myth, not truth. The Freemasons have no evil agenda, the Mafia took root not in New York, but the South, and Harvard's Skull and Bones does not control a sinister shadow government.
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6.0/106 votesLoading...#11 - Famous Feuds
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/18/2017
Myths distort the stories of two of America's most renowned rivalries. Before their fateful duel, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were law partners; and the conflict between the Hatfields and McCoys didn't end in the backwoods, but a courtroom.
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6.2/106 votesLoading...#12 - The Civil War
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/4/2017
Myths cloud the real facts of America's Civil War. The North's biggest city tried to secede; the Union didn't go to war to end slavery; most deaths weren't caused by battle wounds, and Grant and Lee didn't end the conflict; two other generals did.
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6.3/109 votesLoading...#13 - Not So Close Encounters
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/2015
Did an alien spaceship crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Are scientists reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology in the Nevada desert's Area 51? Conspiracy theorists have no doubts. But the facts tell a very different story.
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6.4/108 votesLoading...#14 - The Real West
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/2017
Much of what we know about the old west is myth, not fact, drawn from movies and TV. Gunfights never started with a quick draw, cowboys weren't all white, and Native Americans feared enemies more menacing than settlers and soldiers.
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6.4/105 votesLoading...#15 - American Villains
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/11/2017
Myths litter the stories of America's most infamous bad guys. Al Capone was a philanthropist as well as a hood; Benedict Arnold was a hero as well as a traitor, Jesse James was no wild west Robin Hood; and we've got Billy the Kid's nickname wrong.
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6.5/108 votesLoading...#16 - Ike and MacArthur
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2015
The truth about America's greatest generals is obscured by myth. West Point cadet Dwight Eisenhower used an alias to hide a secret and Douglas MacArthur deserved a court-martial, not a medal, for his actions in the Philippines in World War II.
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6.5/106 votesLoading...#17 - Liberty, Leprechauns and Lounging
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/28/2017
Myths taint our knowledge of the 4th of July, St. Patrick's Day, and our favorite mini-holiday, the weekend. We should celebrate Independence Day on July 2nd, St. Patrick wasn't Irish, and the idea of a fun weekend is a recent creation.
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6.6/1014 votesLoading...#18 - Wartime Rosies
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/2014
The truth about women during World War II goes way beyond Rosie the Riveter. In this episode, our stories range from the woman who broke Japan's secret code to the Hollywood sex goddess who invented a remote-controlled torpedo.
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6.6/105 votesLoading...#19 - The Atomic Age
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/2017
The real facts of the nuclear age are clouded by myth. Manhattan played a major role in the Manhattan Project; there were closer calls to World War III than the Cuban Missile Crisis; America's nuclear security hinges on a football and a biscuit.
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6.7/1012 votesLoading...#20 - Patton and Grant
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2014
The truth about America's greatest generals is obscured by myth. Learn that George Patton's nickname "Blood and Guts" doesn't mean what you might think and that Ulysses S. Grant's reputation as a drunk and a butcher is undeserved.
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6.7/107 votesLoading...#21 - Smoking, Drinking and Gambling
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/21/2017
Myths obscure the real facts about our favorite vices: smoking, drinking and gambling. You won't believe which nation had the first anti-smoking campaign, what those three X's on a jug of moonshine mean, or where our first slot machines appeared.
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#22 - Engineering America
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2016
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6.9/1011 votesLoading...#23 - The Inventors
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/31/2013
We don't always know the truth behind the inventors that create the devices we use every day. On America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that Thomas Edison didn't actually invent the light bulb and Benjamin Franklin never "discovered" electricity.
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7.0/1013 votesLoading...#24 - The New World
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/14/2013
There is more to the explorers who discovered America than we have been told. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fiction learn Christopher Columbus never stepped foot in North America and Hernán Cortés didn't defeat the Aztecs by himself.
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7.0/1010 votesLoading...#25 - Red, White and True?
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/2014
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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The Worst Episodes of America: Facts vs. Fiction
Every episode of America: Facts vs. Fiction ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of America: Facts vs. Fiction!
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Presidential Special" is the worst rated episode of "America: Facts vs. Fiction". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/15/2016. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Epic Interventions".