The Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain stands as the largest armed insurrection on American soil since the Civil War, yet for nearly a century it was virtually absent from the nation's textbooks and public memo...
10 Apr 1h 14min
The Horror of Holmesburg Prison
For more than two decades, incarcerated men inside Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison were used as human test subjects in experiments that sound like something out of a dystopian novel. Beginning in 195...
8 Apr 1h 18min
The SR-71 Blackbird: The Cold War at Mach Three
The SR-71 Blackbird remains the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ever built. It cruised above Mach three, operated at altitudes above eighty-five thousand feet, and for more than two decades it f...
5 Apr 1h 24min
The Berlin Wall
Tonight on Disturbing History, we're going to Berlin. On the morning of August 13th, 1961, the residents of one of the world's great cities woke up to find their home cut in half. Barbed wire had gone...
3 Apr 1h 18min
The Hatfield and McCoy Feud
In this episode of Disturbing History, we take a deep and unflinching look at the Hatfield-McCoy feud, the most infamous family conflict in American history. Spanning nearly three decades along the Tu...
1 Apr 1h 12min
The Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 is one of the most misunderstood events in American history. Most people know the version they learned in school or saw in Inherit the Wind — a noble defense attorney h...
29 Mar 1h 18min
The Bonus Army: America Attacks Its Own
In the summer of 1932, roughly twenty thousand World War One veterans and their families descended on Washington, D.C., to demand early payment of bonus certificates they'd been promised under the Wor...
26 Mar 1h 19min
The Phantom Airships of the 1890's
Decades before Roswell, decades before the term UFO even existed, something was already flying over America that nobody could explain. On the evening of November 17, 1896, citizens of Sacramento, Cali...
23 Mar 1h 20min
