Season 5
(2018)
Cast
as Himself - Host / Various Characters
Episodes
Heroines 8.0
January 23, 2018
Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, an…
Dangerous Minds 7.5
January 30, 2018
Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Dictio…
Game Changers 7.5
February 6, 2018
Hip hop is born in 1970s New York City, Berry Gordy founds the massively influential Motown Records, and Nichelle Nicho…
Sex 5.0
February 13, 2018
Margaret Sanger is a pioneering advocate for birth control, the Kinseys create a scale for sexuality, and journalist Gl…
Civil Rights 7.0
February 20, 2018
British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in…
Underdogs 7.5
February 27, 2018
Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and…
Drunk Mystery 7.2
March 6, 2018
Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anony…
World War II 7.5
June 19, 2018
A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment …
Heists 7.0
June 26, 2018
An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a Nazi g…
Animals 8.5
July 3, 2018
A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problem…
The Middle Ages 6.0
July 10, 2018
Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War, Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power, AND Mansa Musa b…
Death 7.0
July 17, 2018
Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers, a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham L…
Halloween 8.5
July 24, 2018
A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the …