6.9/1039 votes#1 - Michelangelo Revealed
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 5/13/2009
More than five centuries ago, Michelangelo Buonarroti was the darling of the Catholic Church. The Papacy commissioned him to create many of its most important pieces, including the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. He spent his life glorifying the Church, etching Catholic ideals into masterpieces that defined religion for the masses. Yet when he died, his body was secretly shepherded off to Florence, and the Church was denied the opportunity to honor him with a grand funeral in Rome. Historians have long wondered about the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, but now, art historian Antonio Forcellino believes he has pieced together evidence of a deep rift between the Church and the esteemed artist. The cause: Michelangelo’s belief in Protestant ideals, and his involvement with a clandestine fellowship trying to put an end to the decadence and corruption of the Clergy and reform the Church from within.
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7.8/1024 votes#2 - Airmen and the Headhunters
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2009
A tribe in Borneo protects a shot-down U.S. bomber crew from Japanese occupiers during World War II. The local missionaries, who converted the tribe to Christianity, were executed by the Japanese invaders, who had forced out Dutch and British colonialists, while massacring Borneo natives. A surviving missionary from Indonesia, employed by the Japanese military as an area administrator, outwits Japanese forces by hiding the U.S. airmen deep in a jungle canyon. The local Dayak people risk their lives, and force the occupiers to abandon their hunt for the airmen, using blowpipes and machetes against the Japanese army search parties.
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7.1/1026 votes#3 - Mumbai Massacre
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/2009
Accounts of the survivors of the indiscriminate terrorist massacres in Mumbai by Islamic Extremests in November 2008 and how the news media aided the terrorist by giving away the hiding places of the soon to be victims.
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7.1/1028 votes#4 - Japanese SuperSub
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 5/5/2010
During World War 2, Japan developed a super-submarine capable of launching bomber aircraft as a strategic weapon to carry the conflict to the United States mainland. But in the rapidly changing Pacific Theater, one intended mission after another becomes obsolete before the submarines can be deployed
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NaN/100 votes#5 - Churchill's Deadly Decision
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 5/12/2010
Find out why Churchill chose to sink the French fleet.
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NaN/100 votes#6 - Deadliest Battle
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 5/19/2010
The Battle of Stalingrad, the deadliest single battle ever seen, has been lauded as a shining example of Stalin's military genius, and altered the course of World War II permanently. The battle established the Soviet Union as a superpower to be reckoned with in the long Cold War that lay ahead. More than a half-century later, with newly uncovered evidence the full impact of this horrific battle is revealed.
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Genres:DocumentaryMystery
Network:PBS
Season 9 Ratings Summary
"Michelangelo Revealed" is the best rated episode of "Secrets of the Dead" season 9. It scored 6.9/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/13/2009. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Airmen and the Headhunters".