7.1/1036 votes#1 - Doping for Gold
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 5/7/2008
In the 1970s, female East German athletes came from nowhere to dominate international sport. But behind their success lay a horrifying secret. Doping for Gold reveals the truth behind the biggest state-sponsored doping program the world has ever known, creating a timely perspective on today’s many sports drug scandals.
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6.9/1026 votes#2 - Sinking Atlantis
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 5/14/2008
Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe’s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously disappeared. Sinking Atlantis digs deep into the Minoan soil and history, following archaeologists who are finding evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated the Minoans – and may have spawned the myth of Atlantis.
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7.0/1026 votes#3 - Executed in Error
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/2008
In 1910, an American doctor named Hawley Crippen was convicted in England of poisoning and dismembering his wife. The vicious murder—and execution that followed—made international headlines. It was a landmark case: The first trial by media, and the first to be dominated by forensic science. But did the prosecutors get it right? Almost one hundred years later, investigators have re-opened the files on a murder that became known as one of the crimes of the century.
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6.3/1018 votes#4 - Blackbeard's Lost Ship
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2009
Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, was the most notorious pirate of his day. At the height of his rein, he commanded a fleet of four ships and a crew of 400 men. They were ruthless seafaring raiders who terrorizing vessels in American waters. In 1718, Blackbeard even blockaded the city of Charleston, crippling its economy. Eventually he was caught and beheaded by a posse from the Royal Navy. Now, 300 years later, a marine archaeology team believe they have found his sunken flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, off the North Carolina coast.
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The Best Episodes of Secrets of the Dead Season 8
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Genres:DocumentaryMystery
Network:PBS
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"Doping for Gold" is the best rated episode of "Secrets of the Dead" season 8. It scored 7.1/10 based on 36 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/7/2008. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Sinking Atlantis".