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S05 Episode 1
Heroines
Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, and Clara Barton becomes "the angel of the battlefield."
22 mins · Tue, 23 Jan 2018
S05 Episode 2
Dangerous Minds
Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Dictionary, and Rasputin lives the high life in Russia.
22 mins · Tue, 30 Jan 2018
S05 Episode 3
Game Changers
Hip hop is born in 1970s New York City, Berry Gordy founds the massively influential Motown Records, and Nichelle Nichols brings the civil rights movement to space.
22 mins · Tue, 6 Feb 2018
S05 Episode 4
Sex
Margaret Sanger is a pioneering advocate for birth control, the Kinseys create a scale for sexuality, and journalist Gloria Steinem goes undercover in a Playboy Club.
22 mins · Tue, 13 Feb 2018
S05 Episode 5
Civil Rights
British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in for people with disabilities.
22 mins · Tue, 20 Feb 2018
S05 Episode 6
Underdogs
Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and Maya Lin designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
22 mins · Tue, 27 Feb 2018
S05 Episode 7
Drunk Mystery
Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anonymous letters haunts the town of Circleville, OH.
22 mins · Tue, 6 Mar 2018
S05 Episode 8
World War II
A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps, and Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.
22 mins · Tue, 19 Jun 2018
S05 Episode 9
Heists
An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.
22 mins · Tue, 26 Jun 2018
S05 Episode 10
Animals
A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.
22 mins · Tue, 3 Jul 2018
S05 Episode 11
The Middle Ages
Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War, Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power, AND Mansa Musa brings thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
22 mins · Tue, 10 Jul 2018
S05 Episode 12
Death
Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers, a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body, and an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.
22 mins · Tue, 17 Jul 2018
S05 Episode 13
Halloween
A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the Impaler inspires the classic horror story Dracula.
22 mins · Tue, 24 Jul 2018
