Operation Mincemeat was perhaps the most daring and ingenious espionage ploy of the Second World War, in which Britain's MI5 planted fake war plans on a phony corpse and let it wash up on the shores of the Axis powers ...Using modern forensic methods and the latest historical research, this documentary answers for the first time  great forgeries of history: who carried them out, and under whose or..

The Mystery of the Royal Mummy deals with one of the greatest archaeological hoaxes ever: The discovery of the mummified corpse of a Persian princess from the days of Alexander the Great makes its discoverers heroes overnight. But then first cracks in their story appeared: The mummy turns out to be a fake. Using the latest scientific methods and historical discoveries, the film examines the true s..

In doc series "X-Files History", a historian and a profiler unravel mysterious cases of the past. In "The Piltdown Man" they're on the track of one of the biggest scientific hoaxes in history: Hailed in 1912 as proof of the theory of evolution and an archaeological milestone, the Piltdown skull made its discoverers world-famous before being exposed as a complete hoax decades later.On December 18,..

"X-Files History" unravels mysterious cases of the past. In "The Cranach Connection" a historian and a profiler track down stolen artworks by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach. What makes Cranach so unique? And how were his paintings going to save a bankrupt Communist state?In May of 1980, two priceless Cranach paintings disappeared from a small-town church in East Germany. The thieves left..