S5 E1 • Heroines

A tribute to the first woman to fight in the Revolutionary War and receive a pension; a museum curator who saved art from the Nazis; Civil War hero Clara Bart.

Première diffusion : 23 janvier 2018

S5 E2 • Dangerous Minds

Taran Killam, Jerry O'Connell and Bob Odenkirk explore the lives of Jack Parsons, occultist cofounder of the Jet Propulsion Lab; W.C. Minor, the man who helped write the Oxford English Dictionary; Rasputin, adviser to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.

Première diffusion : 30 janvier 2018

S5 E3 • Game Changers

The early history of Hip hop; Berry Gordy, the man known for inventing Motown; Nichelle Nichols's activism both on and off the TV screen.

Première diffusion : 6 février 2018

S5 E4 • Sex

A salute to Margaret Sanger's crusade for accessible birth control; the creation of the Kinsey scale; Gloria Steinem's undercover work at The Playboy Club.

Première diffusion : 13 février 2018

S5 E5 • Civil Rights

A tribute to Suffragettes who fought for their rights with jujitsu; the Birmingham Children's March; disability rights activists.

Première diffusion : 20 février 2018

S5 E6 • Underdogs

Fred Rogers and his fight for government-funded children's TV; the female journalist who helped take down John D. Rockefeller's oil monopoly.

Première diffusion : 27 février 2018

S5 E7 • Drunk Mystery

An investigation into Agatha Christie's disappearance; the anonymous letter writer who terrorized the town of Circleville; the mastermind behind America's only unsolved airplane hijacking.

Première diffusion : 6 mars 2018

S5 E8 • World War II

A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops; a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps; Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.

Première diffusion : 19 juin 2018

S5 E9 • Heists

An Italian handyman steals the Mona Lisa; the Santa bandits rob a bank in Texas; Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.

Première diffusion : 26 juin 2018

S5 E10 • Animals

A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court; Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA; a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.

Première diffusion : 3 juillet 2018

S5 E11 • The Middle Ages

Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War; Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power; Mansa Musa brings thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Première diffusion : 10 juillet 2018

S5 E12 • Death

Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers; a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body; an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.

Première diffusion : 17 juillet 2018

S5 E13 • Halloween

A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town; one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween; Vlad the Impaler inspires the classic horror story Dracula.

Première diffusion : 24 juillet 2018