Mystery Files
Mystery Files

Mystery Files

2010 2 Seasons 26 Episodes ⭐ 1.0 Documentary

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?

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?

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Nostradamus

Michel de Nostradame, a 16th century astrology and seer, lived in Provence, Southern France. He wrote one of the most po

EP 2

Jack the Ripper

How do we get close to a killer the police haven't been able to identify for over 100 years? With the help of renowned B

EP 3

Robin Hood

Robin Hood is one of the first super heroes. Stories of robbing the rich and giving to the poor are legend. Now evidence

EP 4

Royal Murder

One of Britain’s oldest unsolved mysteries, but what really happened to the Princes in the Tower? The two Princes were

EP 5

Rasputin

On December 16th 1916, Grigory Rasputin, self-styled faith healer and confident to the Tsar was fatally shot in the back

EP 6

Billy the Kid

It’s the late 1870s. One of the most infamous outlaws of the American Wild West is Billy the Kid… a teenage killer w

EP 7

King Arthur

King Arthur- myth, legend or did he actually exist? According to the tales he reputedly led the defence of Britain from

EP 8

Leonardo da Vinci

The Renaissance was the greatest flowering of art, mathematics, technology, architecture and astronomy the world has eve

EP 9

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln. The man who rises from obscurity to become the 16th American President and arguably it’s finest. But

EP 10

Cleopatra

Cleopatra was Born into a dangerous, scary and violent world where everyone believed the dead lived, gods walked amongst

EP 11

Man in the Iron Mask

In 17th century France, King Louis XIV is perhaps the most powerful man on earth. Known as the Sun King, his court at Ve

EP 12

The Romanovs

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Romanov family are at the heart of Russian life. Tsar Nicholas has been o

EP 13

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc is one of the patron saints of France and a national and international icon; a young girl who lived in the e

EP 1

The Birth of Christ

In fact only two of the four accounts of the life of Christ in the New Testament, the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of M

EP 2

Hitler

This programme analyzes the very latest neurological research into Shell Shock and trauma, it retraces Hitler’s time a

EP 3

Marco Polo

We reveal that despite the book suggesting he spent 20 years in the court of the Chinese emperor, there is no mention of

EP 4

Alexander the Great

After his death, his body became one of the most sacred objects in history. Pilgrims, from the common man to the most po

EP 5

Taj Mahal

Throughout the seventeenth Century several European travelers visit the Taj Mahal. Many of these explorers later publish

EP 6

Isaac Newton

Newton was convinced that he alone had been given a gift to unravel the mysteries of the Universe, whether through scien

EP 7

Saladin

Through the accounts and diaries of Saladin’s closest advisers, the mysteries of the period are uncovered. Saladin’s

EP 8

Captain Kidd

His conviction may not be unjust but it is perhaps unfair and certainly unlucky. Kidd’s actions at sea clearly made th

EP 9

Pope Joan

In Rome today is the street known as Vicus Papissa, ‘the street of the woman pope’. In that avenue is an alcove in w

EP 10

Sitting Bull

In 1890 newspaper headlines read “Custer’s murderer is dead”. The papers tell of the killing of the man who stood

EP 11

The Virgin Queen

Did Dudley and Elizabeth conspire to murder his wife so that they could be together? By piecing together the staircase

EP 12

Zorro

Decades earlier, a popular writer in Mexico, Riva Palacio, was writing stories with a character called El Zorro, and a c

EP 13

Lawrence of Arabia

We reveal an ambitious archaeological project in Southern Jordan, which is providing startling new evidence. The Great A

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Struan Rodger
Struan Rodger
Himself / Narrator