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Cities of the Underworld

TVPG • Science & Technology, Documentaries, History • TV Series • 2006

Skyscrapers loom overhead, taxis honk their horns and street vendors shout as they peddle their wares. But the buzz of the city above is nothing compa...more

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1 season available (13 episodes)

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(13 episodes)

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Episodes

Season3

Episode 1

City of Blood

Don explores London from the bottom up as he sheds light on one of the darkest periods of the city's history. From body snatchers and serial killers to occult clubs and pagan rituals, Victorian Londoners lived by their own rules.

Episode 2

Tunnels of Hell

Don discovers what it was like to live through the Battle of Okinawa as he explores a beehive of combat tunnels and dives into a naval destroyer sunk deep into the waters off the coast of Japan.

Episode 3

Real Mafia Underground

Don travels to Sicily to trace the Mafia's roots back to when they were a vigilante society in an underground network.

Episode 4

Secret Sin City

Don reveals how Las Vegas was transformed from a barren desert into a mobster metropolis. He also uncovers the underground vaults, secret surveillance and the latest technology used by casinos to beat the cheaters.

Episode 5

Hitler's Trenches

Don travels to Belgium, where he explores the subterranean web of trenches and tunnels that made World War I one the most brutal wars in history.

Episode 6

Barbarians' Lair

Don examines the end of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Dark Ages as he slips beneath the streets of Europe to explore Templar torture chambers, a lost Roman village and the winding tunnels used by Medieval "ghost knights."

Episode 7

Land of Manson

From Charles Manson's heat-blasted desert lair to a subterranean war room surveying the next big earthquake, Don goes below the most congested avenues of Los Angeles to uncover the City of Angels' darkest secrets.

Episode 8

Gladiators: Blood Sport

Don peels back the layers to uncover the origins of the gladiators as he explores ancient Roman crypts, subterranean chambers used for pagan worship and the school that taught the famed slave warriors how to survive -- and kill.

Episode 9

Secret Holy Land

Don explores underground engineering marvels, subterranean cathedrals and the possible resting place of the Ark of the Covenant in the world's second oldest Christian nation -- Ethiopia.

Episode 10

San Fran Secrets

From the West Coast's largest ammunitions depot to the human trafficking tunnels winding below Chinatown, Don uncovers evidence of San Francisco's sordid past beneath its picturesque hills.

Episode 11

Tomb Of The Lost Mummies

Don embarks on an underground quest to explore the engineering might of the pyramids. During his journey, Don examines an eerily detailed roadmap to the afterlife and discovers a lost tomb filled with 2,000-year-old mummies.

Episode 12

Turkey Center

Don uncovers the truth behind the mysterious legends of Turkey. He reveals how a nation at war moved underground to survive, a king's plot to build one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and a healing spa of the gods.

Episode 13

Alcatraz Down Under

Don heads underground to explore Australia's dark past. He tours a 19th-century prison, uncovers a secret stash of WWII chemical weapons and gains access to a sordid subterranean fort where soldiers were trained to resist torture.

Cities of the Underworld