

Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny
From black ops and bizarre experiments to deadly cover-ups and nefarious gadgets, David Duchovny pulls the curtain back on all the government secrets in modern history we always suspected, but were never given the answers to.
Cast

David Duchovny
Self - Host
Seasons

E1Secrets of the Skies
Apr 4, 2025
Forget the moon or the stars – every government has even bigger designs in the race to dominate the furthest corners of the sky. Uncover a plane crash in North Carolina that almost triggered nuclear Armageddon, the story of a UFO attack on a U.S. missile base that was suppressed for decades, and a daring Israeli heist to steal a cutting-edge fighter jet – right from under their enemies’ noses.

E2Black Sites
Apr 11, 2025
What lies beneath? David Duchovny takes us into the top-secret government bases and the clandestine operations they were built to conceal. Discover a deadly poison lab operated by the Soviet Union's infamous "Doctor Death," a vast nuclear missile site buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet, and the U.S. government's doomsday bunker concealed inside a hollowed-out mountain.

E3Extreme Missions
Apr 18, 2025
When is Mission: Impossible more than just a movie? From the gaspingly record-shattering depths submarine divers have plunged to tap a secret Soviet communication line to the Special Ops team of suicidal soldiers sent to hand-deploy A-bombs in enemy territory, newly uncensored evidence will reveal the lengths that the few and the elite have gone to within the most hostile lands, all in the name of completing the mission.

E4Strange Weapons
Apr 25, 2025
While wars may be won by men, they're fought with weapons and every country wanted to leave nothing to chance. Teetering between the apocalyptic and absurd, declassified records will unveil the top secret weapons programs that attempted to bring down the world. Uncovering the Soviet atomic test that shook the Earth with a force 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, the CIA's creation of a gun that fired a shellfish harvested toxin and the Allies' bizarre secret plan to end World War II by feminizing Hitler.

E5Mind Games
May 2, 2025
Imagine a world where you could be compelled to do anything and everything, your government orders. That's not just a post-apocalyptic worst-case scenario, but at one point in time, the reality of state-run programs designed to warp and control minds, both in the lab and on the battlefield. From the CIA's decades-long pursuit of the perfect truth serum to the U.S. Army's secret PsyOps in Vietnam, mind games have long been at play among countries, its enemies, and even its own citizens. Every one, a more alarming deception than the next.

E6Deep Cover
May 9, 2025
The dangerous, emotional and arduous toll of stealth ops has never been felt more deeply than by those who adopted completely separate personas to integrate themselves into a shadowy underworld. From "The Pond", an intelligence operation so secret the CIA was kept in the dark, to a luxury Red Sea diving resort covertly operated by Mossad agents, to the British security services' daring rescue of a double agent in Moscow. These undercover smokescreens were all driven by daring agents in service of executing a greater purpose.

E7Dark Science
May 16, 2025
Stalin's gruesome trials to create a hybrid human-ape super army and the eerie reason East Germany's Stasi collected the scents of dissidents in airtight jars.

E8Deep Space
May 23, 2025
Glimpses into NASA's covert plan to blow up the moon with a nuclear warhead and the Soviet Union's cover-up of history's deadliest space disaster.

E9Spy Tech
May 30, 2025
From the seemingly innocuous children's toy engineered to save an informant, to hirsute-inspired movie disguises, your government's most clandestine inventions are never what you would suspect, and that's exactly why no one never saw them coming.

E10Unholy Alliances
Jun 6, 2025
They say better the devil you know, but what happens when you have to hold hands with him? When governments strike dark deals with cults, mobs, and even sworn enemies, frosty relationships and mounting tensions are tested head on. From the CIA's attempt to enlist the Chicago Mob to assassinate Castro, to the only World War II battle where U.S. troops fought alongside the German Army, to Vladimir Putin's recruitment of a convicted murderer as his personal assassin, which sacrifices are worth the bigger picture?
E1Escaping Armageddon
Mar 17, 2026
In the razor's-edge theater of global brinkmanship, the world has come closer to annihilation than most ever knew. A NATO war game once spooked the Soviets toward a potential nuclear strike, while a daring Cold War project produced a drone-bomber hybrid capable of carrying 16 nuclear weapons. From experimental war machines to the Presidential "Doomsday Plane" built to command America through apocalypse, these are the plans that reveal how near we've stood to the unthinkable.
E2Top Secret Sites
Mar 24, 2026
Step inside hidden areas where history was steered in secret, from Churchill's wartime bunker, complete with a direct line to FDR concealed inside his private bathroom, to a Soviet weapons base in the desert exposed only by a daring U-2 spy mission.
E3Buried Secrets
Mar 31, 2026
David Duchovny exposes a clandestine nuclear blast set off deep below Mississippi soil, and secret experiments conducted on citizens in the New York subway system.
E4Black Ops
Apr 7, 2026
A French Resistance operative hides explosives in baguettes to cripple a Nazi factory, an American soldier parachutes behind enemy lines to destroy critical supply routes, and Ukrainian forces deploy AI-guided drones to strike a Russian bomber fleet.
E5Bizarre Weapons
Apr 14, 2026
From a British scheme to launch airborne balloons against Nazi Germany, to American bats fitted with incendiary devices, to a covert effort to manipulate monsoon rains in Vietnam.
E6Cracking The Code
Apr 21, 2026
A stranded American pilot in Vietnam is rescued through a code built around familiar golf courses, while Navajo Code Talkers transmit messages that help turn the tide in the Pacific during WWII.
E7Secret Units
Apr 28, 2026
Behind official policy often stands unofficial actors. Discover the audacious operations of Red Cell.
E8Extraordinary Experiments
May 5, 2026
Follow the secretive flights of Project Argus, that sent nuclear warheads into space to test whether radiation could cripple Soviet weapons, while Operation LAC covertly released chemical agents over American communities to simulate biological warfare.
E9Smoke and Mirrors
May 12, 2026
David Duchovny takes us into the long-spun elaborate tales governments have employed to blanket their boldest missions, showing us how the illusion works – or until it doesn't.
E10Extreme Extractions
Jun 11, 2026
Some rescues read like Hollywood - except they were real. In Operation Halyard, villagers and resistance fighters built an airstrip by hand to spirit stranded airmen out of Nazi territory, while Operation Mount Hope saw American forces steal a Soviet helicopter from the African desert under cover of darkness. Decades earlier, the SAS hijacked a train in occupied Italy to liberate 200 prisoners - an extraordinary feat that proved extraction can be as daring as any assault.
E11Masters of Deception
Jun 18, 2026
To outmaneuver the enemy, you have to sell the illusion. An FBI agent goes so deep undercover he's the best man at a Mafia wedding, while the Stasi deploys a covert network of charmers across borders to win trust and steal secrets. And in Egypt, a German-born Jewish spy poses as a high-flying, champagne-soaked ex-Nazi to infiltrate its missile program for Israel. Different missions, one rule: if they believe you, you're already inside.
E12Rogue Missions
Jun 25, 2026
Some missions are so risky, they're denied before they even begin. From a covert Mossad operation to abduct a Nazi war criminal in Argentina-identified through the smallest detail, the shape of his ears-to a chilling CIA plot that used a jazz tour as cover for an assassination attempt in the Congo; to one resistance fighter volunteering to be captured and sent to Auschwitz to reveal the horrors within-these operations are proof that the most dangerous missions are often the most unthinkable.
E13Covert Heists
Jul 2, 2026
E14Cat & Mouse
Jul 9, 2026
E15Dark Deals
Jul 16, 2026
E16Hidden Bases
Jul 23, 2026
E17Spy Gadgets
Jul 30, 2026
E18Top Secret Tech
Aug 6, 2026
E19High Strangeness
Aug 13, 2026
E20Ingenious Disguises
Aug 20, 2026
Videos
Storyline
From black ops and bizarre experiments to deadly cover-ups and nefarious gadgets, David Duchovny pulls the curtain back on all the government secrets in modern history we always suspected, but were never given the answers to.
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