NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Rome: The Rise
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/30/2007
What was the secret to the success of ancient Rome? Aqueducts, underground neighborhoods and one of the oldest sewer systems reveal many secrets. The largest and most influential empire in history leaves clues to her greatness under nearly every street.
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6.1/1017 votesLoading...#2 - America's Ancient Ancestors
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2021
Don goes deep beneath the great lakes and explores flooded caves as he searches for evidence of a mysterious, cave-dwelling society that may have been the first people to reach America.
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6.2/1015 votesLoading...#3 - America's Military Underground
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/2021
Don explores top-secret military and government tunnels and looks into classified technology that could be used to build entire cities... right under our feet.
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6.5/1015 votesLoading...#4 - America's Unmapped Murder Tunnels
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/2021
Don uses brand-new mapping technology to expose the dark and deadly uncharted spaces beneath American cities. He explores the criminal underworld below Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; and Los Angeles, California.
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6.6/1018 votesLoading...#5 - Mayan Apocalypse
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/2021
Don Wildman explores deep below ancient ruins as he searches for clues pointing to the true fate of the once-mighty Mayan empire.
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6.7/1026 votesLoading...#6 - Secret Sin City
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/2008
Welcome to Las Vegas, America's Sin City, where billions of dollars are lost and made every year on our national vices. In order to protect their cash, casinos have made security the highest priority. From underground vaults to secret surveillance nerve centers, we'll uncover how the latest technology beats the cheaters. But Vegas wasn't always this high-tech. We'll show how a massive engineering feat transformed the city from a barren desert into a mobster metropolis where thieves ran the show from underground tunnels dating back to Prohibition. And just when it looked like all the thugs were behind bars and the city would fall off the map for good, Vegas became the come back kid. It's the only city in the world where you can be in Egypt one moment and Italy the next, thanks to a secret underground that allows the show to get bigger and better every time.
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6.7/1018 votesLoading...#7 - Land of Manson
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 12/8/2008
He was the ringleader behind some of the most notorious murders in history. He terrified the world and plunged the city of Los Angeles into a state of paranoia and fear. He's Charles Manson, and the deserts around Los Angeles were his home... and he hoped the underground would be his haven. But Manson and his followers weren't the only things lurking beneath the streets of LA. We'll take you beneath the most congested streets in America, into the tunnels where corrupt cops ran the city in secret and the largest subway system in the world lays in waste. From earthquakes to UFOs, this city has to be ready for anything. But with military bunkers protecting our shores and subterranean disaster relief war rooms, LA's underground also holds the key to its survival.
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6.7/1010 votesLoading...#8 - Templars and The Founding Fathers
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/2021
Don goes deep beneath a Knights Templar stronghold in Turkey to explore a provocative theory that may link the fabled secret society to the founding fathers of America. English
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6.8/1020 votesLoading...#9 - Beneath Vesuvius
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/18/2007
The bombardment of Naples during World War Two revealed a forgotten underground world of ancient buildings, caverns and tunnels. This was fortunate because the underground provided shelter from the bombing as well as a window into Naples past all the back to the Greek Empire.
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7.0/1026 votesLoading...#10 - Stalin's Secret Lair
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 4/21/2008
Moscow is a city known for its ruthless leaders and abundant secrets. Today it's a modern metropolis, but far below its crowded streets lie the reminders of its war-torn past, and pieces of Stalin's terrifying legacy. This subterranean web is so vast, modern day Moscow is actually in danger of caving in. From tunnels used to hide from Stalin's blood-thirsty henchmen, to secret metro systems and hidden bunkers, Don digs deep into Moscow's past.
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7.1/1024 votesLoading...#11 - Underground Apocalypse
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/28/2008
For billions of people across the globe, Jerusalem is considered ground zero for Armageddon. And while most of the world's population considers it a holy land, it's also one of the bloodiest cities the world has ever known. From a hidden occult city built by the Knights Templar to the hiding place for the Dead Sea Scrolls, the evidence of the apocalypse is buried all over the holy city. Host Don Wildman has special access to a sacred stone said to keep the world from ultimate chaos, and finds evidence of John the Baptist's apocalyptic sermons... he's heading into a vast underground that ignited the violent visions of the end of the world.
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7.1/1024 votesLoading...#12 - Secret Soviet Bases
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/2008
Deep within the former Soviet Union lies a classified, subterranean world of Cold War secrets. In Ukraine, which once had the world's third largest nuclear arsenal, Don ducks behind the Iron Curtain to reveal a how the Soviets were really preparing for a Nuclear War. From nuclear submarine bases to underground apartment blocks, these sites are so top-secret, they've never before been seen on American television.
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7.1/1016 votesLoading...#13 - Under the Rock
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 1/12/2009
While most people think of San Francisco as a haven for peace-loving hippies, this city by the Bay is actually one of the biggest military defense installations in America. We'll take you beneath its picturesque hills and uncover the biggest ammunitions depot on the West Coast before plunging into a deadly arsenal that once stored nuclear missiles with more than six times the destructive power of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. From the secret Civil War fortification buried beneath Alcatraz to the human trafficking tunnels winding below Chinatown, San Francisco's underground is evidence of its sordid past.
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7.1/1017 votesLoading...#14 - Gods of War
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/2/2009
Located on the coveted gateway between the East and West, Turkey has a history marked by ambitious conquerors and great empires vying for control of the trade routes. Left behind was a rich mythology of gods and men with tales of epic battles which soaked Turkey's soil in blood. We'll uncover the truth behind these mysterious legends revealing how a nation at war turned underground for its only means of survival, a maniacal king's plot to overturn consecrated ground to build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and even an ancient healing spa of the gods!
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7.1/1017 votesLoading...#15 - Alcatraz Down Under
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2009
Beneath the sunny façade of Sydney, Australia lies a dark past. Underground Sydney is explored. Included: a 19th-century prison; caves that were once home to fugitive outlaws; gold mines. Also: a secret World War II storage place for chemical weapons is toured by those who once worked there.
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7.2/1027 votesLoading...#16 - Viking Underground
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/25/2008
Dublin, Ireland is much more than a city full of pubs and pints. Pagan burial tombs, subterranean defense tunnels, and mysterious burial crypts line the underground below the rolling hills. Even an underground river runs through the heart of the city where you'd least expect to find it.
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7.2/1018 votesLoading...#17 - Mob Underground
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/17/2008
Chicago was once a playground for mobsters and corrupt politicians. It wouldn't be the third largest city in the U.S. today if it weren't for the shady dealings that went on just beneath its streets. From vice dens and top-secret railroad lines to sunken shipwrecks and the spark that created the A-Bomb, host Don Wildman unearths the true history of the Windy City.
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7.2/1024 votesLoading...#18 - Washington D.C.: Seat of Power
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2008
Washington D.C. is headquarters for one of the most powerful governments in the world, as well as some of the nation's deepest secrets. The decisions made here echo around the world, so while the seat of power rests above these streets, our nation's security depends on what happens underneath them. From top secret, high tech superbunkers to the underbelly of Capitol Mall, we'll delve into DC's subterranean defenses. Don will discover how the US prepares for the worst...from the ravages of disease to nuclear catastrophe.
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7.2/1029 votesLoading...#19 - City Of Blood
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2008
Jack the Ripper terrorized the city with his gruesome slaughters. Secret pagan societies raised Hell. Thieves made a killing stealing fresh corpses. London's streets ran red with blood, and it seeped into the underground. It was a city filled with disease, misery and chaos, making it ripe for grisly murders and horrific rumors to spread like the plague. Tales of witches and killers, the Antichrist and pagan rituals filled the city... but behind every ghost story is the terrifying truth of what happened here. From creepy caves scrawled with warnings of witches to the sewers and crypts where murderers and thieves lurked beneath the city streets, London's underground is hiding dark secrets and clues to the bloody truth.
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7.2/1022 votesLoading...#20 - Barbarians' Lair
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/1/2008
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe was plunged into chaos for centuries, with vicious carnage and rampant disease regularly raging through the streets. However, below the streets was another world designed to keep the people alive and the enemy guessing. Join host Don Wildman as he uncovers immense quarries of a secret society, Templar torture chambers and the tunnels of medieval "ghost knights."
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7.2/1019 votesLoading...#21 - Gladiators: Blood Sport
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 12/15/2008
The gladiators of ancient Rome were the ultimate fighting machines. They waged bloody battles to the death for the entertainment of the masses--and to earn their freedom. From the depths of the vicious and magnificent Flavian amphitheater, to the buried brothel where they lived their last days, these are the secret lives of Rome's famed slave warriors. Peel back the layers to uncover the origin of these fierce fighters, as host Don Wildman heads into ancient crypts, subterranean chambers used for pagan worship, and to the school that taught the gladiators how survive... and how to kill.
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7.2/108 votesLoading...#22 - Secrets of the Ancient Metropolis
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/2021
Don explores the massive underground cities in the mountains of Turkey that may have been home to the first civilization on Earth.
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7.3/1027 votesLoading...#23 - Rome's Hidden Empire
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/7/2007
Much of modern Rome is built upon the foundations of the first century Roman city and was above Goraud at that time. Eric visits some of these ruins and his guides explain the activities that occurred there two thousand years ago.
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7.3/1028 votesLoading...#24 - New York
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/4/2007
New York City's underground harbors secrets and surprises befitting the most important city on earth. Eric shares these secrets in tours under Grand Central Terminal, the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center and New York's original aqueduct.
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7.3/1020 votesLoading...#25 - Secret Pagan Underground
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 7/16/2007
4000 years ago, a mysterious pagan society called the Hittites dug deep into the soft volcanic rock to carve out an intricate underworld. But after almost 800 years of rule, the Hittite Empire vanished without a trace. Where did their people go and what clues have they left behind in their complex subterranean world?
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The Worst Episodes of Cities of the Underworld
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Don Wildman travels to the farthest and deepest reaches of the globe, using cutting-edge technology to explore mysteries buried deep underground.
Genre:Documentary
Worst Episodes Summary
"Rome: The Rise" is the worst rated episode of "Cities of the Underworld". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/30/2007. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "America's Ancient Ancestors".