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Jamestown’s Dark Winter

Secrets of the Dead
Air Date: 11/24/15 | Expires: 01/30/27 | Rating: TV-14

Archaeologists have been excavating in Jamestown for more than 20 years. In April 2012, a team of Historic Jamestowne archeologists discovered something surprising. In the trash layer of a cellar, among the butchered animal bones and household trash discarded by the Jamestown colonists, they found the mutilated skull and severed leg of a 14-year-old English girl dating back to 1609.

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Ben Franklin’s Bones
S14 Ep1 | 54m 40s
Air Date: 01/28/15 | Expires: 01/27/25 | Rating: NR

Learn why Franklin held human skeletal remains in the basement of his British residence.

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JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
S14 Ep2 | 55m 10s
Air Date: 08/04/15 | Expires: 08/03/25 | Rating: NR

In many ways, President Lyndon B. Johnson was the most unlikely champion of Civil Rights.

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The Real Trojan Horse
S14 Ep3 | 54m 40s
Air Date: 10/13/15 | Expires: 10/12/25 | Rating: NR

Uncover evidence that could explain how ancient Greeks got inside the walls of Troy

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Jamestown’s Dark Winter
S14 Ep4 | 54m 41s
Air Date: 11/24/15 | Expires: 01/30/27 | Rating: TV-14

Discover the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World

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