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The Best Episodes of Revealed

Every episode of Revealed ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Revealed!

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Umbrella Assassin" is the best rated episode of "Revealed". It scored 8.6/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/17/2006. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Hunt for Hitler's Scientists".

  • The Umbrella Assassin
    8.6/1027 votes
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    #1 - The Umbrella Assassin

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/17/2006

    Documentary combining a present-tense investigation in a wintery Sofia with drama reconstructions shot on Super 16mm, and a fresh telling of the notorious ‘Umbrella Murder’ of Georgi Markov in 1978.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hunt for Hitler's Scientists
    8.0/1014 votes
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    #2 - The Hunt for Hitler's Scientists

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/2005

    In the closing months of World War II, defeat was looming for the Germans. The invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 -- D-Day -- opened a second Allied front, and the Allies began overtaking a host of German positions; Paris was liberated on August 25; Romania and Bulgaria surrendered in quick succession. But the Nazis did not intend to go down without a fight -- and without inflicting as much damage as possible on the Allies. To do so, they employed or planned to employ an increasingly deadly array of military weapons -- from ballistic missiles to rocket planes to, perhaps, the atomic bomb. The British, American, and Russian governments were not content to sit idly by, waiting to be slammed by the advanced technology. Covert teams of commandos and agents were sent ahead of the front lines and deep into Germany, hunting for both the weapons and the scientists and engineers who'd created them. For British and American operatives, failure was not an option. If they didn't capture the Nazi technology and scientists, agents of the burgeoning Soviet Union might -- and that could spell disaster in a post-war world already feeling the chill of the impending cold war.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Battle for Hitler's Supership
    7.9/1011 votes
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    #3 - The Battle for Hitler's Supership

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/6/2005

    Documentary about the huge and powerful Second World War German battleship Tirpitz, and the Allied hunt for it throughout the Atlantic and Arctic, making thirty-six attempts to sink it. The Tirpitz was the Third Reich's ultimate weapon - the most successful German battleship of WWII. This documentary recreates the five-year struggle to destroy Hitler's biggest battleship, with American, Canadian and British survivors and their counterparts in the Forces today.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Search for the Amazon Headshrinkers
    7.9/108 votes
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    #4 - Search for the Amazon Headshrinkers

    Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 7/23/2009

    Recently uncovered archive footage from the 1960s shows late explorer Edmundo Bielawski's shocking encounter with Amazon Headshrinkers. Amazonian Indians would shrink the head of an enemy to take away the power of the victim's vengeful soul. The headshrinking process was thought never to have been captured on film - until now. Author and explorer Piers Gibbon ventures deep into the Amazon rainforest in search of the location and people involved, to determine if the footage could be genuine.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Great Olympic Drug Scandal
    7.7/108 votes
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    #5 - The Great Olympic Drug Scandal

    Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/2007

    This programme revisits the dark days of the Cold War with a startling examination of East Germany’s secret programme to feed its top female athletes with untested drugs. For decades, the communist GDR state administered harmful drugs to thousands of young women in a desperate and dangerous bid to achieve sporting excellence.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Boy King
    7.7/108 votes
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    #6 - Tutankhamun: Secrets of the Boy King

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/2007

    Lord Carnarvon, the great-grandson of one of the men who discovered the tomb, travels across Egypt on a quest to reexamine the life of the Boy King. With the help of archaeological discoveries, computer graphics and new historical research, he presents a portrait of Tutankhamun that challenges pre-conceived wisdom about the famous but enigmatic pharaoh.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Da Vinci Shroud
    7.7/106 votes
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    #7 - The Da Vinci Shroud

    Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 7/1/2009

    In 1988, scientists ran a series of tests on the shroud of Turin, the Christian relic said to be the cloth in which the body of Christ was swathed after his death. The results dated the material's origins to the early 14th century, proving it to be a fake. In this documentary, historian Emily Craig examines claims that Leonardo Da Vinci was commissioned by members of a powerful Italian dynasty to produce the artefact, and used a primitive form of camera to create the image.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Auschwitz: The Great Escape
    7.5/1032 votes
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    #8 - Auschwitz: The Great Escape

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/2007

    This programme uncovers the true story of an audacious escape from Auschwitz by two young Slovak Jews in 1944 – an event which alerted the world to the horror of the Nazi concentration camps.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • JFK's Women: The Scandals
    7.3/1054 votes
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    #9 - JFK's Women: The Scandals

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/2006

    JFK enjoyed a number of sexual liaisons that could have ended his political career, but his brother Bobby always managed to keep the truth from the press. This explosive documentary focuses on four women who could have ended JFK’s presidency, and the deal the brothers made with J Edgar Hoover to stay in power.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Family That Defied Hitler
    7.2/1017 votes
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    #10 - The Family That Defied Hitler

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/2007

    Told for the first time, the extraordinary story of how heroic nuns, the Polish Resistance and a game of chess saved one Jewish family from the Holocaust.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hitler's Secret Bunkers
    7.2/1034 votes
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    #11 - Hitler's Secret Bunkers

    Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 7/15/2008

    Historical documentary exploring a network of Nazi bunkers in Berlin. Historian Antony Beevor returns to the German capital to uncover this lost world, hidden from view since 1945.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Brits Who Fought for Hitler
    7.0/108 votes
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    #12 - The Brits Who Fought for Hitler

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/16/2002

    Documentary looking at the British soldiers who turned against the Allies during the Second World War to join a Waffen SS unit called the British Free Corps, brainchild of English Nazi John Amery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mystery of the Mary Celeste
    7.0/109 votes
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    #13 - The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

    Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/2008

    n December 1872, the merchant ship The Mary Celeste was found drifting deserted in the mid Atlantic Ocean. She was a ghost ship with no sign of her captain or the eight crew aboard, but mysteriously, her cargo of 1700 barrels of pure alcohol was intact in her hull. The mystery of her plight has stood for 135 years, baffling scientists, historians and mariners. Now a descendant of the ship's captain has a look at evidence that throws some fascinating new light on what really happened.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Britain's Nazi King?
    7.0/1056 votes
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    #14 - Britain's Nazi King?

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 7/16/2009

    Edward VIII is remembered as the British King who gave up the throne to marry the woman he loved: American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Declassified FBI files suggest another story that Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were pro-German, that they maintained contact with Nazi Germany early in the war and may have leaked secrets to the enemy, and that Hitler wanted to see Edward return to England as his puppet king.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The First Pompeii
    6.9/1016 votes
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    #15 - The First Pompeii

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/23/2002

    Documentary which follows the excavation of a Bronze Age village that was destroyed by volcanic activity from Vesuvius - some 2,000 years before the famous eruption that froze Pompeii in time.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hitler's Private World
    6.9/1012 votes
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    #16 - Hitler's Private World

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/2006

    A professional lip reader, aided by modern technology, reveals what Hitler is saying in the silent home movies Eva Braun took of him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ghosts of the Mary Rose
    6.9/109 votes
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    #17 - The Ghosts of the Mary Rose

    Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 8/5/2008

    Henry VIII's flagship, the Mary Rose, sank in 1545 when its gun ports flooded during an engagement with the French. Because silt preserved the wreck, it became Britain's Pompeii - an historical moment frozen in time. Some 10,000 human bones from the 400 men on board were recovered, which are now giving up their secrets. The captain had described his crew as a bunch of unruly knaves; forensic examination of the enamel from their teeth shows that up to two thirds of these knaves were likely to have been mercenaries from southern Europe. In the chaos of battle, there may have been a language problem over “shut that bloody gun port!”

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jack the Ripper: Tabloid Killer
    6.9/1022 votes
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    #18 - Jack the Ripper: Tabloid Killer

    Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 6/24/2009

    In this programme, former-tabloid editor, Kelvin Mackenzie re-examines the Ripper murders, uncovers startling documentary evidence and identifies a new set of suspects; the crooked journalists who faked evidence, printed fantasy and mislead the police investigation, all to keep the Ripper murders on their front pages.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Legend of the Crystal Skulls
    6.3/1014 votes
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    #19 - Legend of the Crystal Skulls

    Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 6/24/2008

    The historical documentary series continues with this fascinating investigation into the origins of the world-famous crystal skulls. Since the 19th century, a number of lifelike quartz skulls have been discovered and displayed in museums. These relics, allegedly dating from Aztec and Mayan civilisations, are believed to have psychic powers. Now, for the first time ever, scientists are given access to the most famous skull of all, the so-called ‘Skull of Doom’.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Secrets of the Sphinx
    6.2/106 votes
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    #20 - Secrets of the Sphinx

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 12/14/2004

    Documentary unravelling the mysteries of the Sphinx. Thousands of years after the Sphinx was cut from the bedrock, an investigation team lead by world-leading experts piece together its incredible story. Using groundbreaking technology and the latest historical reasearch, the team bring to life one of the most famous monuments in history, re-creating its original painted face and revealing the true story behind it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Jack the Ripper - The First Serial Killer
    6.2/1024 votes
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    #21 - Jack the Ripper - The First Serial Killer

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/2006

    Criminal psychologist at New Scotland Yard Laura Richard uses modern investigation techniques to try and build a portrait of the Victorian serial killer Jack the Ripper. She and other experts, including a pathologist, historian, profiler and policeman, examine the crimes and try and establish why the particular victims were chosen, and the possible motivations and reasons for the crimes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?
    6.1/1010 votes
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    #22 - Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/2003

    Documentary on the mystery surrounding Marilyn Monroe's death. Many believe the Hollywood star did not commit suicide.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mussolini: The Rise of Italian Fascism
    5.7/107 votes
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    #23 - Mussolini: The Rise of Italian Fascism

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 7/3/2007

    This documentary shows how the Italian dictator drew on support at home and abroad to embark on military conflicts in Libya, Ethiopia and Spain before his catastrophic alliance with Hitler led to his eventual downfall.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Who Killed Tutankhamun?
    NaN/100 votes
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    #24 - Who Killed Tutankhamun?

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/9/2002

    Documentary that attempts to solve the mystery surrounding Tutankhamun's death. Two leading US homicide detectives apply modern investigative techniques to try to find out who killed the boy-king. Uses reconstructions shot in Egypt, and 3-D computer animation.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dambusters
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    #25 - Dambusters

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2003

    Documentary which tells the tale of Barnes Wallis' 'bouncing bomb' which destroyed to German dams during the Second World War. Uses reconstructions, interviews, archive footage, and a fresh assessment of the technology involved.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A