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History's Greatest Mysteries

History's Greatest Mysteries

20207.87 Seasons84 EpisodesReturning Series

Overview

Investigates a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries surrounding each including the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth, and more. Fresh, new evidence and perspectives will be showcased, such as never-before-released documents, personal diaries and DNA evidence.

NetworksPlanète+ A&EHistory

Top Cast

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Self - Host

Themes & Keywords

mysterious landsmysterious eventsobservational documentarymysterious disappearancedocumentary

About History's Greatest Mysteries

History's Greatest Mysteries is a documentary, mystery series that first aired in 2020 exploring themes of mysterious lands, mysterious events, observational documentary, mysterious disappearance, documentary. it stars Laurence Fishburne. Investigates a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries surrounding each including the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell, John Wilkes Booth, and more. Fresh, new evidence and perspectives will be showcased, such as never-before-released documents, personal diaries and DNA evidence.

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