The Worst Episodes of America: Facts vs. Fiction

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5.4/10(7 votes)
#1 - Secret Societies
S5:E52/4/2017
Much of what we know about America's secret societies is myth, not truth. The Freemasons have no evil agenda, the Mafia took root not in New York, but the South, and Harvard's Skull and Bones does not control a sinister shadow government.
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5.3/10(6 votes)
#2 - Space: The Final Frontier
S5:E62/4/2017
Myths eclipse the real facts about NASA's dramatic rescue of three astronauts aboard the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft; and Hollywood movies have a hit-and-miss track record of depicting the realties of interstellar exploration.
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6.5/10(14 votes)
#3 - Wartime Rosies
S2:E711/18/2014
The truth about women during World War II goes way beyond Rosie the Riveter. In this episode, our stories range from the woman who broke Japan's secret code to the Hollywood sex goddess who invented a remote-controlled torpedo.
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6.3/10(9 votes)
#4 - Not So Close Encounters
S3:E711/17/2015
Did an alien spaceship crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Are scientists reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology in the Nevada desert's Area 51? Conspiracy theorists have no doubts. But the facts tell a very different story.
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6.0/10(6 votes)
#5 - Famous Feuds
S5:E92/18/2017
Myths distort the stories of two of America's most renowned rivalries. Before their fateful duel, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were law partners; and the conflict between the Hatfields and McCoys didn't end in the backwoods, but a courtroom.
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6.5/10(8 votes)
#6 - Ike and MacArthur
S3:E110/6/2015
The truth about America's greatest generals is obscured by myth. West Point cadet Dwight Eisenhower used an alias to hide a secret and Douglas MacArthur deserved a court-martial, not a medal, for his actions in the Philippines in World War II.
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#7 - Liberty, Leprechauns and Lounging
S5:E31/28/2017
Myths taint our knowledge of the 4th of July, St. Patrick's Day, and our favorite mini-holiday, the weekend. We should celebrate Independence Day on July 2nd, St. Patrick wasn't Irish, and the idea of a fun weekend is a recent creation.
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6.4/10(5 votes)
#8 - American Villains
S5:E82/11/2017
Myths litter the stories of America's most infamous bad guys. Al Capone was a philanthropist as well as a hood; Benedict Arnold was a hero as well as a traitor, Jesse James was no wild west Robin Hood; and we've got Billy the Kid's nickname wrong.
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6.8/10(12 votes)
#9 - Patton and Grant
S2:E510/28/2014
The truth about America's greatest generals is obscured by myth. Learn that George Patton's nickname "Blood and Guts" doesn't mean what you might think and that Ulysses S. Grant's reputation as a drunk and a butcher is undeserved.
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6.6/10(5 votes)
#10 - The Atomic Age
S5:E72/11/2017
The real facts of the nuclear age are clouded by myth. Manhattan played a major role in the Manhattan Project; there were closer calls to World War III than the Cuban Missile Crisis; America's nuclear security hinges on a football and a biscuit.
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6.9/10(11 votes)
#11 - The Inventors
S1:E57/31/2013
We don't always know the truth behind the inventors that create the devices we use every day. On America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that Thomas Edison didn't actually invent the light bulb and Benjamin Franklin never "discovered" electricity.
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6.8/10(7 votes)
#12 - Smoking, Drinking and Gambling
S5:E21/21/2017
Myths obscure the real facts about our favorite vices: smoking, drinking and gambling. You won't believe which nation had the first anti-smoking campaign, what those three X's on a jug of moonshine mean, or where our first slot machines appeared.
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6.8/10(7 votes)
#13 - Moments That Changed History
S5:E102/25/2017
Myths and misconceptions surround four pivotal historic moments: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., the Boston Tea Party in 1773, and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
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6.9/10(9 votes)
#14 - The Real West
S5:E41/28/2017
Much of what we know about the old west is myth, not fact, drawn from movies and TV. Gunfights never started with a quick draw, cowboys weren't all white, and Native Americans feared enemies more menacing than settlers and soldiers.
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6.8/10(6 votes)
#15 - Engineering America
S4:E65/14/2016
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7.0/10(13 votes)
#16 - The New World
S1:E78/14/2013
There is more to the explorers who discovered America than we have been told. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fiction learn Christopher Columbus never stepped foot in North America and Hernán Cortés didn't defeat the Aztecs by himself.
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6.8/10(5 votes)
#17 - Discovering America
S4:E34/23/2016
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7.0/10(7 votes)
#18 - Kings of the Sky
S3:E510/27/2015
Charles Lindburg myths and John Glenn fictions
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7.1/10(17 votes)
#19 - Trick or Treat
S1:E47/24/2013
We don't always know the truth behind what scares us. On the next episode of America's Facts Vs. Fictions, learn that our Halloween's origins aren't all that ancient and that Edgar Allan Poe is not the madman that others have made him out to be.
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7.0/10(5 votes)
#20 - The Great Escape
S4:E44/30/2016
The "facts" of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of Little Big Horn vs. the "fiction".
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7.1/10(12 votes)
#21 - Conquering the Sky
S2:E1112/23/2014
The stories of pioneering aviators are often not the truth but flights of fancy. In this episode of America: Facts vs. Fiction, we expose the myths about the Wright brothers' invention of the airplane and America's favorite missing person, Amelia Earhart.
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7.2/10(12 votes)
#22 - Roadside Stories
S1:E88/21/2013
A whole other story is behind the roads and bridges that cross the United States. On this episode of America's Facts Vs. Fictions learn a woman was the driving force behind completing the Brooklyn Bridge and Route 66 wasn't built from scratch.
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7.2/10(9 votes)
#23 - Top Secret Vaults
S3:E611/3/2015
Myths surround America's most secret vaults. The interior of Fort Knox looks nothing like it does in the movie "Goldfinger" and the $250 billion of gold in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is protected by low-tech technology built in 1924.
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7.2/10(8 votes)
#24 - The Rock and the Bridge
S3:E1112/15/2015
Myths obscure the real facts about two San Francisco landmarks: Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. If Alcatraz was so harsh, why did inmates ask to be transferred there? And why did the Navy want to paint the bridge a garish yellow and black?
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7.2/10(7 votes)
#25 - Striking It Rich
S4:E85/28/2016
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