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Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny

Thriller, Mystery, History · 2025 · Rated 5.9/10

Last aired: S2 E20, Ingenious Disguises · 2026-08-20

Secrets Declassified tells the incredible stories of government secrets that have only recently come to light. This series proves that secrets can be uncovered, and mysteries can still be unraveled." Each episode will find Duchovny focusing on a different topic, speaking with different experts. Subjects include the real-life story behind Argo and the mystery of the Area 51 conspiracy. Mulder would approve. From black ops and bizarre experiments to deadly cover-ups and nefarious gadgets, David Duchovny pulls the curtain back on all the government secrets in modern history we always suspected, but were never given the answers to. Through the strange and shocking things countries the world over ? and those who work for them ? have done in the name of national interest, we?ll investigate the explosive evidence from newly declassified files that will finally shine a new light on what?s really going on deep in the shadows.

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Season 2

Season 1Season 2
E1 Escaping Armageddon 2026-03-17 · 62 min In the razor's-edge theater of global brinkmanship, the world has come closer to annihilation than most ever knew.
E2 Top Secret Sites 2026-03-24 · 62 min Step inside the hidden areas where history was steered in secret. From Churchill's wartime bunker — complete with a direct line to FDR concealed inside his private bathroom — to a Soviet weapons base in the desert.
E3 Buried Secrets 2026-03-31 · 62 min David Duchovny exposes a clandestine nuclear blast set off deep below Mississippi soil, and secret experiments conducted on citizens in the New York subway system.
E4 Black Ops 2026-04-07 · 62 min A French Resistance operative hides explosives in baguettes to cripple a Nazi factory, an American soldier parachutes behind enemy lines to destroy critical supply routes, and Ukrainian forces deploy AI-guided drones to strike a Russian bomber fleet.
E5 Bizarre Weapons 2026-04-14 · 62 min From a British scheme to launch airborne balloons against Nazi Germany, to American bats fitted with incendiary devices, to a covert effort to manipulate monsoon rains in Vietnam.
E6 Cracking the Code 2026-04-21 · 62 min A stranded American pilot in Vietnam is rescued through a code built around familiar golf courses, while Navajo Code Talkers transmit messages that help turn the tide in the Pacific during WWII.
E7 Secret Units 2026-04-28 · 62 min Behind official policy often stands unofficial actors. Discover the audacious operations of Red Cell.
E8 Extraordinary Experiments 2026-05-05 · 62 min Follow the secretive flights of Project Argus, that sent nuclear warheads into space to test whether radiation could cripple Soviet weapons, while Operation LAC covertly released chemical agents over American communities to simulate biological warfare.
E9 Smoke and Mirrors 2026-05-12 · 62 min David Duchovny takes us into the long-spun elaborate tales governments have employed to blanket their boldest missions, showing us how the illusion works – or until it doesn't.
E10 Extreme Extractions 2026-06-11 · 63 min In Operation Halyard, villagers and resistance fighters built an airstrip by hand to spirit stranded airmen out of Nazi territory, while Operation Mount Hope saw American forces steal a Soviet helicopter from the African desert under cover of darkness.
E11 Masters of Deception 2026-06-18 · 63 min To outmaneuver the enemy, you have to sell the illusion. An FBI agent goes so deep undercover he's best man at a Mafia wedding, while the Stasi deploys a covert network of charmers across borders to win trust and steal secrets.
E12 Rogue Missions 2026-06-25 · 63 min Some missions are so risky, they're denied before they even begin. These operations are proof that the most dangerous missions are often the most unthinkable.
E13 Covert Heists 2026-07-02 · 63 min Sometimes when governments can't negotiate their way to victory, they steal it. When the KGB sets its sights on a NATO missile, they enlist a smooth-talking German playboy armed with only a wheelbarrow, a carpet, and a postage stamp.
E14 High Strangeness 2026-07-09 · 63 min Some targets are taken by force – others require a game of cat and mouse played out across continents and years of relentless chase. While the prey changes, the pursuit never does.
E15 Dark Deals 2026-07-16 · 63 min Some deals are made to announced headlines, while others are steered in the shadows. While the fingerprints may be hidden, the consequences of every deal leaves a lasting mark.
E16 Hidden Bases 2026-07-23 · 63 min Some strongholds are built to defend a nation, others to survive its darkest hour. From deception to survival to espionage, these hidden sites reveal the lengths nations go to when the stakes couldn't be higher.
E17 Spy Gadgets 2026-07-30 · 63 min Every spy needs a cover story – and the best gadgets have one, too. In the jungles of Vietnam, the U.S. military built sensors that could sniff out hidden enemies. Sometimes the most dangerous weapon in the room is the one nobody realizes is there.
E18 Top Secret Tech 2026-08-06 · 63 min Before they became instruments of war, they sounded like impossible ideas. An American medical student develops a closed-circuit rebreather that allows Allied frogmen to slip beneath enemy harbors without a single bubble.
E19 Cat & Mouse 2026-08-13 · 63 min Some targets are taken by force – others require a game of cat and mouse played out across continents and years of relentless chase. While the prey changes, the pursuit never does.
E20 Ingenious Disguises 2026-08-20 · 63 min Some disguises hide an individual, others conceal an entire operation. A CIA vaccination campaign masks a global manhunt for the world's most wanted terrorist. Sometimes the safest place to hide a secret is right out in the open.

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