Codes and Conspiracies - Episode Guide

Secrets involving the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island, including the escape of three prisoners and the remnants of a strange military outpost with ties to President Abraham Lincoln.

Some motorcycle clubs are viewed not as social clubs for nonconformists, but as organized crime syndicates.

Investigating UFO's and the strange stories surrounding them, including the existence of a "shadow government" and the rumor of a Nazi flying saucer that crashed in New Mexico.

Secret bunkers exist under every American city, but only a lucky few know about these hidden survival complexes. CODES AND CONSPIRACIES examines the underground bunkers that have been a feature of warfare planning since the dawn of time to the hidden survival complexes found today.

Bordellos, which have endured for thousands of years, hold secrets involving famous patrons, governments, and religion.

The most secret of secret societies, The Freemasons, are intertwined with American history. Most of the Founding Fathers and 14 U.S. Presidents were Freemasons. Some say Washington DC is laid out as a Masonic code.  What other secrets are the Masons hiding?

Discover which of America's founding fathers was a master of deceit, which one used sex as an instrument of diplomacy, which one secretly scoffed at the divinity of Jesus, and which one engaged in the greatest cover-up in all of American history?

From the rallies held at Madison Square Garden, to the plots to steal the secrets to the nation's weapons of war, the American Nazis terrorize the United States in the 1930s and wage a battle against the FBI and an undercover team of amateur spies.

Did aliens help build the Pyramids & other monuments? Or does the "ancient astronauts" idea go back to Swiss author Erich von Daniken, whose books challenge religion and science? Who were his enemies? What were his influences? Why was he jailed?

Unravel the seamy secrets of Las Vegas. Where Mobsters once ruled. Where casinos suck you in to keep you playing and losing. Why was this a Nazi target for wartime sabotage, a test ground for Atomic Bombs, and a meeting place for 9/11's terrorists?

Discover some of America's most infamous cults. Whether its religious fire-and-brimstone, Armageddon, or visitors from outer space, the US has no shortage of like-minded people coming together to get swept up in the fervor.

At the height of the Cold War, the United States searches for a way to create a generation of "Supersoldiers" who use telepathy to win battles. In the 1950s gangster, Whitey Bulger volunteers for the CIA's LSD project known as MK-Ultra.

Exploring whether the attack on Pearl Harbor was really a surprise, if FDR knew about the attack beforehand, and who really fired the first shots of the Pacific War.

A secret society gathers in the dead of night and plots the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; U.S. spymaster Allan Pinkerton stops Confederate agents before they can topple the Union.

The Vatican protects its reputation and the members of its ranks with fierce abandon. But the scandals throughout its history are some of the darkest in all of history.

Since ancient times, man has gone to extreme and often deadly lengths to get gold, one the rarest treasures on Earth; looking at where the gold is today and who owns it.

A secret part of American history has remained hidden, locked away for centuries in the hulls of ships in New York Harbor or in the depths of an abandoned copper mine. These are America's Secret Prisons.

American code breakers have given the United States an edge in every conflict in American history. But with uncrackable encryption available for your cell phone and computer, have U.S. code warriors finally met their match?

At the height of the Cold War, the United States of America searches for a way to create a generation of "Supersoldiers" who use telepathy to win battles. In the 1950s gangster Whitey Bulger volunteers for the CIA's LSD project known as MK-Ultra.