• 2012
Myth Hunters

Summary A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries. View more details

  • 2012

Myth Hunters

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Chris Wilson Alisdair Simpson Jonny Phillips Guy Walters

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Genres : History Biography Documentary

Release date : Oct 25, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : American Heroes Channel Official site

Language : English

Production companies : WMR Productions

Summary A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries. View more details

Details

Genres : History Biography Documentary

Release date : Oct 25, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : American Heroes Channel Official site

Language : English

Production companies : WMR Productions

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Episode 1 • Oct 25, 2012
Hitler and the Spear of Destiny
The armies of Nazi Germany crossed the border with Austria, but when Hitler arrived in Vienna just 2 days later, the very first thing he did was to go to the Hofburg museum to lay claim to what appeared to be a simple Roman spear head. This spear head was something that Hitler had apparently coveted ever since he had first nurtured ambitions to become the ruler of a new German Reich.
Episode 2 • Nov 01, 2012
The Quest for Noah's Ark
This 50 minute documentary tells the story of three of these Christians and their expeditions which were full of danger and despair as they looked for Noah's Ark.
Episode 3 • Nov 08, 2012
The Missing Eighth Wonder of the World
In 1941 the Germans looted one of the Soviet Union's most important art works, called the Amber Room. An extraordinary series of C18 amber screens worth millions of pounds and considered, by many, the 8th wonder of the world. It was taken to the Baltic city of Konigsberg. 4 years later at the end of the war, it had vanished. So began one of the greatest treasure hunts of the twentieth century.
Episode 4 • Nov 15, 2012
The Hunt for Pirate Treasure
The effort of actor Richard Knight to find the lost treasure of privateer William Kidd.
Episode 5 • Nov 22, 2012
The Real King Solomon's Mines
A rich and exotic Queen of Sheba brought King Solomon gifts of gold from the mystical land of Ophir. But where was Ophir? Where had all that gold come from? For 1000 of years, ancient Greeks, Renaissance adventurers, Victorian explorers, and modern day scientists have searched for the source of Solomon's gold. A mysterious place that would famously become known as King Solomon's Mines.
Episode 6 • Nov 29, 2012
The Lost Sword of the Samurai
The Honjo Masamune is perhaps the greatest Japanese sword ever made. Forged in the 13th century by the great sword smith Masamune it became the ceremonial sword of the ruling Tokugawa shoguns for 250 years. After their fall from power in 1868 the great sword continued to be passed down the generations into the 20th century, but in the aftermath of the Second World War it disappeared.
Episode 7 • Dec 06, 2012
Himmler and the Holy Grail
The Holy Grail, the most prized relic of Christianity has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. Said to be the cup used by Christ at the last supper it is believed by many to hold miraculous powers. For centuries Kings, knights and treasure hunters have sought it, but it has always remained elusive and out of reach of human hands.
Episode 8 • Jan 03, 2013
The Hunt for the Book of Spells
It's one of the most influential books ever written. It's said to have inspired early Freemasons, to provide the wisdom behind the Tarot and to have underpinned a string of 20th century esoteric cults. Yet after years of looking for it nobody has ever found the original text.
Episode 9 • Jan 10, 2013
The Lost City of El Dorado
Legend tells that somewhere in South America there is a great city of gold, El Dorado, a fabulously rich and sophisticated kingdom that was once home to thousands of people living deep in the Amazon jungle. To most people it was just a legend. But for British explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, it was real. Convinced he knew the location of this lost world, he spent years searching for it.
Episode 10 • Jan 17, 2013
The Nazis and the Book of Power
Heinrich Himmler sent his SS solders to locate a treasure so valuable to Nazi ideology that it must be recovered at all costs. The item they are searching for is an ancient manuscript, a perfect copy of a book written nearly two thousand years before in Rome which the Nazis call the birth certificate for the German race. The book is known as the Germania; for the Nazis it is the "Book of Power".
Episode 11 • Jan 24, 2013
Raider Ron and the Lost Ark
Episode 12 • Jan 31, 2013
The Search for the Crystal Skulls
In 1924, a young girl found an extraordinary object in the jungles of Central America. It was a beautiful skull from a single block of pure quartz crystal. All her life Anna Mitchell-Hedges claimed that her skull had telepathic powers.
Episode 13 • Feb 07, 2013
The Quest for the True Cross
Fifteen years ago Michael Hesemann, a German historian, set out to establish the authenticity of one of the most important Christian relics ever found. It's called the Titulus Crucis, or Title of the Cross, a small piece of wood that, it's claimed, hung on the cross of Christ announcing his name and crime. It's displayed in a church in Rome. But is it real or a mediaeval fake?
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