About this season
History as we generally know it is full of holes or half-truths, and a mother lode of juicy details have been lost, distorted, covered up or simply ignored along the way. Former Naval officer and actor Jamie Kaler is on a mission to set the record straight on the most familiar and beloved stories from our nation's and military's past, filling in the blanks, debunking the occasional myth, and exploring why we sometimes get our own history, well, slightly wrong
Episodes (11)
1. Presidential Special
Aired 15 April 2016 • 22 min
2. Epic Interventions
Aired 16 April 2016 • 22 min
3. Discovering America
Aired 23 April 2016 • 22 min
4. The Great Escape
Aired 30 April 2016 • 22 min
The "facts" of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of Little Big Horn vs. the "fiction".
5. Tales of Sea and Sky
Aired 7 May 2016 • 22 min
6. Engineering America
Aired 14 May 2016 • 22 min
7. Saluting the Truth
Aired 21 May 2016 • 22 min
Profiles of U.S. generals, including George Patton and Ulysses S. Grant. Also: a look back at the Roaring '20s and the lawlessness of the 1930s.
8. Striking It Rich
Aired 28 May 2016 • 22 min
9. Bonus Round: Defending the Truth
Aired 4 June 2016 • 22 min
True tales of women at war, including those that worked at manufacturing jobs, as WASPS, as computers, code breakers and spies and the 500 who died as a result of enemy action. Fact and fiction in historical photographs.
10. Bonus Round: All-American Landmarks
Aired 5 September 2016 • 22 min
Discovering the real truth behind some of America's greatest landmarks.
11. Bonus Round: Fall into the Truth
Aired 27 October 2016 • 22 min
Exposing the truth behind favorite Fall holidays Thanksgiving and Halloween.