Secret History
Season 3
TV-PG
Secret History was a long-running British television documentary series. Shown on Channel 4, the Secret History brandname was used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can still be found on US cable channels without the branding. It can be seen as Channel 4's answer to the BBC's Timewatch.
Where to Watch Secret History • Season 3
6 Episodes
- The Soviet Wives AffairE1
The Soviet Wives AffairIn the early 1940s, 33 British servicemen stationed in Russia fell in love and married Russian women. They were called home very soon afterwards and the British Government in 1942 legislated that if a British serviceman married a Russian woman he would have to leave the Soviet Union immediately. - White LiesE2
White LiesFor nearly 40 years, a clandestine operation, based in the heart of London, provided secret but crucial support for the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Founded by Canon Collins of St Paul's Cathedral, the Inter- national Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) outwitted every move of the South African security services (BOSS) while still managing to smuggle in more than a hundred million pounds to the victims and opponents of apartheid. For the first time, people involved with IDAF explain exactly how they managed to defy BOSS, and agents of BOSS reveal how they tried to infiltrate and discredit IDAF. - The Dambusters RaidE3
The Dambusters RaidThe demolishing of two dams in northern Germany by Lancaster bombers in 1943, was remembered as one of the war's triumphs. But historians are now questioning whether it had any military value, and using film never seen before, the untold story of the Dambusters Raid is finally revealed, including the allegations that details of the bomb fell into enemy hands and the intended breaching of the Moehne and Sorpe dams was not as extensive as newspapers claimed. Includes an interview with pilot Ken Brown, who led the Sorpe raid and who is reunited with his crew. - Dead or Alive?E4
Dead or Alive?Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 almost 2,000 people were missing. Bitter recriminations from the relatives of the missing has divided the island further. This documentary reveals the existence of previously unknown mass graves, the possible last resting place of the missing people.