
From the Legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood to the recent events of the Russian Revolution, history is full of fascinating and evocative unsolved mysteries. They have inspired, intrigued and often confounded us – but how much do we really know about them? And can we separate fact from fiction? In Mystery Files, the dust is blown off the case files of the world’s most famous and iconic mysteries in a dynamic series that asks, what is the truth behind the greatest stories ever told?
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Air Date: 2010-02-01
Michel de Nostradame, a 16th century astrology and seer, lived in Provence, Southern France. He wrote one of the most...
Air Date: 2010-02-01
How do we get close to a killer the police haven't been able to identify for over 100 years? With the help of renowne...
Air Date: 2010-02-02
Robin Hood is one of the first super heroes. Stories of robbing the rich and giving to the poor are legend. Now evide...
Air Date: 2010-02-02
One of Britain’s oldest unsolved mysteries, but what really happened to the Princes in the Tower? The two Princes wer...
Air Date: 2010-02-03
On December 16th 1916, Grigory Rasputin, self-styled faith healer and confident to the Tsar was fatally shot in the b...
Air Date: 2010-02-03
It’s the late 1870s. One of the most infamous outlaws of the American Wild West is Billy the Kid… a teenage killer wh...
Air Date: 2010-02-04
King Arthur- myth, legend or did he actually exist? According to the tales he reputedly led the defence of Britain fr...
Air Date: 2010-02-05
The Renaissance was the greatest flowering of art, mathematics, technology, architecture and astronomy the world has ...
Air Date: 2010-02-08
Abraham Lincoln. The man who rises from obscurity to become the 16th American President and arguably it’s finest. But...
Air Date: 2010-02-09
Cleopatra was Born into a dangerous, scary and violent world where everyone believed the dead lived, gods walked amon...
Air Date: 2010-02-10
In 17th century France, King Louis XIV is perhaps the most powerful man on earth. Known as the Sun King, his court at...
Air Date: 2010-02-11
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Romanov family are at the heart of Russian life. Tsar Nicholas has bee...
Air Date: 2010-02-12
Joan of Arc is one of the patron saints of France and a national and international icon; a young girl who lived in th...