History Channel - Dead Mens Secrets: Set 1 (2002) x264 AC3 MVGroup

Dead men don't tell tales - or do they? Are there forensic clues left in the sands of time? Are there traces of archive film which even today are waiting to unveil their grisly secret? Not all the captivating and fascinating stories of military escapades in the 20th Century have been fully examined and many fascinating insights are still to be revealed and told.
These have been known until now as DEADMEN'S SECRETS.
What was the true story behind the tragic death of John F Kennedy's older and better looking brother? Was this the man who Joe Kennedy Sr. was really grooming for President? Could his death have been avoided?
How was it possible for an American President to order the death in mid-air of the man who executed the raid on Pearl Harbor? Who tampered with the flying controls of General Sikorski's plane? And which secret frogman was first on the scene when the plane crashed into the sea? Why did Hitler murder his right-hand man and why did the bomb plot to kill Hitler fail?

Part 1: The Mysterious Death of Joe Kennedy
He was a war hero with unlimited potential and his father's choice to become president. In August 1944 a heavily-laden US Navy Liberator took off from an English airfield, piloted by Joe Kennedy Junior. Many expected him to follow in the family tradition, and eventually make president of the USA, but that day he perished when his aircraft exploded before it even reached enemy airspace.

Part 2: The Mysterious Death of Yamamoto: Death by Presidential Decree
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the mastermind behind the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the terrible times that followed a nation demanded revenge.

Part 3: The Mysterious Death of General Sikorski
Polish General Wladyslaw Sikorski was the Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-exile during World War II, and commander of all Polish soldiers who had escaped the Nazis and returned to the fight. On July 4, 1943, the B-24 Liberator carrying him out of Gibraltar en route to London, failed to lift off after take-off, and crashed straight into the sea, killing Sikorski. The official line was that Sikorsky and his fellow passengers had died in an accident, but evidence of sabotage indicated otherwise. There was no official inquiry, and the real cause of Sikorski's death remains mystery.

Part 5: Why Did Hitler Murder Ernst Roehm?
It is hard to imagine the period of the NSDAP's rise to power in Germany without Sturmabteilung in their characteristic kepi caps and brown shirts. SA stormtroopers and their brutal commander, Ernst Roehm, not only gave Hitler invaluable services in his battles with political opponents, but also became an icon of the National Socialist movement of the early 1930s. When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, these ties began to weigh heavily on him. However, this did not determine the fate of Ernst Roehm, one of the oldest party comrades.

Part 6: Revenge! the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
Reinhard Heydrich was the perfect Nazi: tall, blond, athletic - and evil. Next to Hitler himself, Reinhard Heydrich was the most dangerous man in Nazi Germany. Hitler called him the "man with the iron heart". As head of the Security Police, even loyal Nazis feared him.

Part 7: Secrets of Hitler's Special Forces
Here we are given a glimpse into the highly structured world of Hitler's Special Forces. These elite warriors could be called up from any military base because they were the best soldiers the Third Reich had to offer.

Part 8: Plotting to Kill Hitler: Why Did the Plots to Kill Hitler Fail?
In 1939, with World War II barely underway, a bomb exploded in Munich's Burgerbrau Beer Hall minutes after Adolf Hitler and his top aides had left. It was just the first of many attempts made on the Nazi leader's life during the war.

Part 9: Escape from Hitler's Bunker
In 1945 Soviet tanks roared through the flaming ruins of Berlin. In Hitler's bunker under the Reich Chancellery waited a group of the most hated men in history. The leader of Nazi Germany spent his final days cowering in his Berlin Bunker as his empire crumbled, before consuming cyanide and shooting himself with a pistol as the Red Army closed in. After storming central Berlin, the Soviets discovered Hitler's body, along with the lair 55 feet under the Reich Chancellery, which contained 18 small rooms and was fully self-sufficient, with its own water and electrical supply.

Part 10: Hitler's Atomic Arsenal: How Close Was Hitler to Developing Atomic Weapons?
How close was the leader of the Third Reich to having a nuclear bomb to deploy against the Allies in World War II? After developing a V2 ballistic missile capable of reaching as far a New York, Hitler made nuclear development his highest priority. See how America's development of atomic warfare thwarted Hitler's aggressive plan to launch an atomic attack on San Francisco on August 17, 1945.

Part 11: The Strange Quest of Rudolph Hess
Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess parachuted into a field in Scotland in 1941. He had come to contact members of the British Royal family on a secret peace mission that he hoped would end the war. He was captured by some locals and imprisoned, but rumours surfaced many years later questioning his identity - and the true extent of the Royal family's involvement.

Part 12: America and the Mob: Wartime Friends - Who Set Fire to the Normandie?
1942. Fire blazed on the Normandie, a magnificent luxury ocean liner anchored in New York Harbour. She had just been renamed USS Lafayette and converted to a troop carrier, ready to take 10,000 American troops to Britain. Nazi sabotage was supected, but the official story was negligence. The government had to take steps to prevent such setbacks in the future. For decades rumours have persisted that one of the precautionary measures they took was to "hire" the Mafia to make sure no additional "accidents" happened. Of course, that looks suspiciously like a famously successful Mafia business model and there are some who believe that the Normandie fire was actually a shakedown. In fact, decades later Mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano claimed his organisation had burnt the Normandie, and in the aftermath had made a deal with the US government to protect the dock from further Nazi sabotage.

Part 13: Secrets of the "Y" Service
In World War II electronic warfare became crucial. The "Y" Service was a group of highly trained technicians who used technology to fight the war. Throughout the war, Allied code-breakers read the secret messages of the Germans. The men and women of the 'Y' (for Wireless') Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military's encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous Bletchley Park mansion.

Part 14: Operation Bodyguard: D-Day Deception
The Allies knew that to be successful on D-Day they must disguise where they would land; so they created an elaborate system of hoax and deception named Operation Bodyguard to fool the Germans who were waiting. There were fake armies, dummy landing craft and false intelligence, all designed to keep Hitler guessing about the true objective of the Allied landings.