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The Worst Episodes of Cities of the Underworld

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The Worst Episodes of Cities of the Underworld

Don Wildman travels to the farthest and deepest reaches of the globe, using cutting-edge technology to explore mysteries buried deep underground.

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  1. Background image for Rome: The Rise
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Rome: The Rise

    S1:E14

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for America's Ancient Ancestors
    6.1/10(17 votes)

    #2 - America's Ancient Ancestors

    S4:E4

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for America's Military Underground
    6.2/10(15 votes)

    #3 - America's Military Underground

    S4:E2

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for America's Unmapped Murder Tunnels
    6.5/10(15 votes)

    #4 - America's Unmapped Murder Tunnels

    S4:E3

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Mayan Apocalypse
    6.6/10(18 votes)

    #5 - Mayan Apocalypse

    S4:E1

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Secret Sin City
    6.7/10(27 votes)

    #6 - Secret Sin City

    S3:E4

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Templars and The Founding Fathers
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Templars and The Founding Fathers

    S4:E6

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  9. Background image for Beneath Vesuvius
    6.8/10(21 votes)

    #8 - Beneath Vesuvius

    S1:E9

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Land of Manson
    6.8/10(20 votes)

    #9 - Land of Manson

    S3:E7

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Stalin's Secret Lair
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #10 - Stalin's Secret Lair

    S2:E11

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Secret Soviet Bases
    7.0/10(26 votes)

    #11 - Secret Soviet Bases

    S2:E13

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Underground Apocalypse
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #12 - Underground Apocalypse

    S2:E1

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Mob Underground
    7.1/10(20 votes)

    #13 - Mob Underground

    S2:E7

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Under the Rock
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #14 - Under the Rock

    S3:E10

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Gods of War
    7.1/10(18 votes)

    #15 - Gods of War

    S3:E12

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Secret Pagan Underground
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    #16 - Secret Pagan Underground

    S1:E12

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  18. Background image for Viking Underground
    7.2/10(27 votes)

    #17 - Viking Underground

    S2:E4

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  19. Background image for City Of Blood
    7.2/10(30 votes)

    #18 - City Of Blood

    S3:E1

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Barbarians' Lair
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #19 - Barbarians' Lair

    S3:E6

    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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  21. Background image for Gladiators: Blood Sport
    7.2/10(20 votes)

    #20 - Gladiators: Blood Sport

    S3:E8

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  22. Background image for Alcatraz Down Under
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    #21 - Alcatraz Down Under

    S3:E13

    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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    Director:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Secrets of the Ancient Metropolis
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #22 - Secrets of the Ancient Metropolis

    S4:E7

    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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  24. Background image for Prophecies From Below
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    #23 - Prophecies From Below

    S2:E8

    The ancient world was shaped by people who believed they foresaw the will of God. Jerusalem is at the heart of all their fiery prophecies. From the outcome of bloody wars to the birth of saviors, Jerusalem has been at the center of prophetic revelations. Join host Don Wildman as he peels back the layers of this sacred subterranean landscape to uncover an ancient escape route, a secret bullet factory, and the birthplace of Jesus. He sets out to find the truth behind Jerusalem's most mysterious and enduring prophecies, the people who foretold them and what was left behind... underground.

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    Director:Unknown
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  25. Background image for New York: Secret Societies
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #24 - New York: Secret Societies

    S2:E9

    Today, New York is the biggest city in the country... but it's got some dark secrets in its past. It was founded by covert groups, overrun with gangs and mob bosses, and ruled by secret societies. This is the true foundation of the city that never sleeps, and host Don Wildman is headed deep beneath the skyscrapers, taxicabs and street vendors into a New York that few have ever seen before. From a hidden Freemason tunnel and secret world of the Sandhogs, to mobster hideaways and gang escape routes, we're uncovering the secret societies that built New York--from the underground up.

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    Director:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Washington D.C.: Seat of Power
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    #25 - Washington D.C.: Seat of Power

    S2:E10

    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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    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Rome: The Rise" is the worst rated episode of "Cities of the Underworld". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/30/2007. This episode scored 6.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "America's Ancient Ancestors".