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Theo Wilson time-travels to the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, where the underdog Russian army is about to pull off a victory that will turn the tide of the war in favor of Allied forces.

I Was There

Battle of Stalingrad

Theo Wilson travels back in time to April 19, 1995, when Oklahoma City is rocked by a two-ton fertilizer bomb shortly after 9 a.m. ; Theo investigates the layers of this complicated story.

Oklahoma City Bombing

Al Capone and a turf war triggered by American thirst for liquor turns into the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which was a bloody execution in a garage in downtown Chicago in 1929.

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

How John Lewis led the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday.

Bloody Sunday

With an audience of 2.5 million school children, the Challenger exploded in the sky, taking the lives of seven astronauts; with red flags and multiple chances to stop it, exploring why the Challenger ever took off.

Challenger Disaster

Theo Wilson time travels to 1865 and immerses himself in the events that lead John Wilkes Booth to hatch a plan to kill President Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln's Assassination

Theo Wilson finds himself in the lair of America's first famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes; Theo follows Holmes' dark road from con man to the owner of a fiendishly engineered murder castle.

Killer in the White City

Theo Wilson time-travels to the mid-1800s, where he finds Jesse James; Wilson separates myth from reality in Jesse's career and charts how a thirst for fame, riches and revenge led James toward his fated murder by a member of his own gang.

The Death of Jesse James

Theo Wilson travels back in time to Salem, Mass., in 1692, where the village is self-destructing over allegations of witchcraft among dozens of its citizens.

Salem Witch Trials

Theo Wilson time-travels to Russia on April 26, 1986, as workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant are in the throes of a disaster that will put the lives of millions of Soviet citizens and Europeans in jeopardy.

Chernobyl Disaster

Theo Wilson time-travels back to 1889 to the bucolic river shores of Johnstown, Pa., where the biggest flood in U.S. history is about to be unleashed.

Johnstown: America's Deadliest Flood

Theo Wilson finds himself aboard the world's most luxurious airship, the Hindenburg, where he must solve the mystery of what leads to its fiery fall from the sky.

Hindenburg Disaster

Revisiting a series of critical historical events, disasters, triumphs and true stories to learn unexpected facts in an engaging, fast-moving, and often unpredictable way.

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