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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

Join host Don Wildman as he travels to Sicily to trace the mafia's roots back to when they were a vigilante secret society in an underground network. The original mafia was created to hold trials against corrupt city officials and execute the accused.

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

After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe was plunged into chaos for centuries, with vicious carnage and rampant disease regularly raging through the streets. However, below the streets was another world designed to keep the people alive.

Episode 7

Land of Manson

He was the mastermind of the most notorious murders in U.S. history. He terrified the world and plunged the city of Los Angeles into a state of paranoia and fear.

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

Under The Rock

While most people think of San Francisco as a haven for peace-loving hippies, this city by the Bay is actually one of the biggest military defense installations in America.

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

Gods of War

Lying at the crossroads of the East and West, Turkey has a history marked by conquest and conflict. Empires clashed over this land and its trade routes.

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