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Secret Wars Uncovered

  • 2020
  • Ended
  • Documentary
  • 1 season
  • 10.0/10

Reveals the facts behind battles we know barely anything about. Digging deep into the archives and quizzing experts and journalists, this UK series takes the audience through some of the most controversial, covered up and shocking military events of recent times.

Latest: Season 1 · 2020

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  1. E1. Crimea

    Jun 19, 2020 · 44m

    The annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 was the biggest in Europe since WWII - but how did they execute it? And what has happened since?

  2. E2. Yemen

    Jun 26, 2020 · 44m

    In March 2019, reports arise of UK Special Boat Service troops killed in Yemen. But they shouldn't be there - so what role did they play in the Yemeni Civil War?

  3. E3. Somalia

    Jul 3, 2020 · 44m

    In October 1993, an elite battle unit of the US army began a fairly straight-forward mission in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. But within minutes, it descended into chaos.

  4. E4. Bosnia

    Jul 10, 2020 · 44m

    On 3 March 1992, Bosnia & Herzegovina gained its independence from Yugoslavia, leading to a complex war fuelled by ethnic tensions fought on many fronts.

  5. E5. Kashmir

    Jul 17, 2020 · 44m

    As it escalates, look at the complex history behind the India-Pakistan border conflict in Kashmir, from the horrors of Partition all the way to rising tension in 2019.

  6. E6. Laos

    Jul 24, 2020 · 44m

    The American involvement in Laos in the 1950s was long kept under wraps - but the story of their efforts to remove the communists, led by the CIA, is a devastating one.

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