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America: Facts vs. Fiction

Season 4 · 11 episodes · Apr 15, 2016

  1. Episode 1

    Presidential Special

    Apr 15, 2016

  2. Episode 2

    Epic Interventions

    Apr 16, 2016

  3. Episode 3

    Discovering America

    Apr 23, 2016

  4. Episode 4

    The Great Escape

    Apr 30, 2016

    The "facts" of the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of Little Big Horn vs. the "fiction".

  5. Episode 5

    Tales of Sea and Sky

    May 7, 2016

  6. Episode 6

    Engineering America

    May 14, 2016

  7. Episode 7

    Saluting the Truth

    May 21, 2016

    Profiles of U.S. generals, including George Patton and Ulysses S. Grant. Also: a look back at the Roaring '20s and the lawlessness of the 1930s.

  8. Episode 8

    Striking It Rich

    May 28, 2016

  9. Episode 9

    Bonus Round: Defending the Truth

    Jun 4, 2016

    True tales of women at war, including those that worked at manufacturing jobs, as WASPS, as computers, code breakers and spies and the 500 who died as a result of enemy action. Fact and fiction in historical photographs.

  10. Episode 10

    Bonus Round: All-American Landmarks

    Sep 5, 2016

    Discovering the real truth behind some of America's greatest landmarks.

  11. Episode 11

    Bonus Round: Fall into the Truth

    Oct 27, 2016

    Exposing the truth behind favorite Fall holidays Thanksgiving and Halloween.