7.6/1065 votes#1 - The Man Who Saved the World
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 10/23/2012
An officer aboard a Soviet submarine refuses to fire a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
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7.9/1085 votes#2 - Bugging Hitler's Soldiers
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/2013
German POWs reveal inner thoughts about the Third Reich, including military secrets that helped the Allies win World War II.
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7.0/1039 votes#3 - Death on the Railroad
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 5/8/2013
Forensic and scientific analysis help determine how 57 Irish immigrants died less than two months after arriving in Pennsylvania to work on the railroad.
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6.6/1034 votes#4 - Cavemen Cold Case
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 5/15/2013
Scientists say some of the 49,000 year-old Neanderthal bones discovered in El Sidrón, Spain, bear signs of cannibalism.
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8.0/1085 votes#5 - Ultimate Tut
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 7/10/2013
New scientific research provides insights into how King Tutankhamen was buried, why his tomb remained intact and how he died.
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7.9/1059 votes#6 - Bones of the Buddha
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 7/23/2013
Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National Geographic Channels. It concerns a controversial Buddhist reliquary from the Piprahwa Stupa in Uttar Pradesh, India. It was released in May, 2013, and was broadcast in July 2013 in the US on PBS as part of the Secrets of the Dead series.
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Genres:DocumentaryMystery
Network:PBS
Season 12 Ratings Summary
"The Man Who Saved the World" is the best rated episode of "Secrets of the Dead" season 12. It scored 7.6/10 based on 65 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/23/2012. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Bugging Hitler's Soldiers".