Secrets Declassified with David Duchovny — Season 2
About this season
From black ops and bizarre experiments to deadly cover-ups and nefarious gadgets, David Duchovny pulls the curtain back on all the government secrets in modern history we always suspected, but were never given the answers to.
Episodes (20)
1. Escaping Armageddon
Aired 17 March 2026 • 43 min
In the razor's-edge theater of global brinkmanship, the world has come closer to annihilation than most ever knew. A NATO war game once spooked the Soviets toward a potential nuclear strike, while a daring Cold War project produced a drone-bomber hybrid capable of carrying 16 nuclear weapons. From experimental war machines to the Presidential "Doomsday Plane" built to command America through apocalypse, these are the plans that reveal how near we've stood to the unthinkable.
2. Top Secret Sites
Aired 24 March 2026 • 43 min
Step inside hidden areas where history was steered in secret, from Churchill's wartime bunker, complete with a direct line to FDR concealed inside his private bathroom, to a Soviet weapons base in the desert exposed only by a daring U-2 spy mission.
3. Buried Secrets
Aired 31 March 2026 • 43 min
David Duchovny exposes a clandestine nuclear blast set off deep below Mississippi soil, and secret experiments conducted on citizens in the New York subway system.
4. Black Ops
Aired 7 April 2026 • 43 min
A French Resistance operative hides explosives in baguettes to cripple a Nazi factory, an American soldier parachutes behind enemy lines to destroy critical supply routes, and Ukrainian forces deploy AI-guided drones to strike a Russian bomber fleet.
5. Bizarre Weapons
Aired 14 April 2026 • 43 min
From a British scheme to launch airborne balloons against Nazi Germany, to American bats fitted with incendiary devices, to a covert effort to manipulate monsoon rains in Vietnam.
6. Cracking The Code
Aired 21 April 2026 • 42 min
A stranded American pilot in Vietnam is rescued through a code built around familiar golf courses, while Navajo Code Talkers transmit messages that help turn the tide in the Pacific during WWII.
7. Secret Units
Aired 28 April 2026 • 43 min
Behind official policy often stands unofficial actors. Discover the audacious operations of Red Cell.
8. Extraordinary Experiments
Aired 5 May 2026 • 42 min
Follow the secretive flights of Project Argus, that sent nuclear warheads into space to test whether radiation could cripple Soviet weapons, while Operation LAC covertly released chemical agents over American communities to simulate biological warfare.
9. Smoke and Mirrors
Aired 12 May 2026 • 42 min
David Duchovny takes us into the long-spun elaborate tales governments have employed to blanket their boldest missions, showing us how the illusion works – or until it doesn't.
10. Extreme Extractions
Aired 11 June 2026 • 42 min
Some rescues read like Hollywood - except they were real. In Operation Halyard, villagers and resistance fighters built an airstrip by hand to spirit stranded airmen out of Nazi territory, while Operation Mount Hope saw American forces steal a Soviet helicopter from the African desert under cover of darkness. Decades earlier, the SAS hijacked a train in occupied Italy to liberate 200 prisoners - an extraordinary feat that proved extraction can be as daring as any assault.
11. Masters of Deception
Aired 23 June 2026 • 42 min
To outmaneuver the enemy, you have to sell the illusion. An FBI agent goes so deep undercover he's the best man at a Mafia wedding, while the Stasi deploys a covert network of charmers across borders to win trust and steal secrets. And in Egypt, a German-born Jewish spy poses as a high-flying, champagne-soaked ex-Nazi to infiltrate its missile program for Israel. Different missions, one rule: if they believe you, you're already inside.
12. Rogue Missions
Aired 30 June 2026 • 42 min
Some missions are so risky, they're denied before they even begin. From a covert Mossad operation to abduct a Nazi war criminal in Argentina-identified through the smallest detail, the shape of his ears-to a chilling CIA plot that used a jazz tour as cover for an assassination attempt in the Congo; to one resistance fighter volunteering to be captured and sent to Auschwitz to reveal the horrors within-these operations are proof that the most dangerous missions are often the most unthinkable.
13. Covert Heists
Aired 7 July 2026 • 42 min
14. Cat & Mouse
Aired 14 July 2026 • 42 min
15. Dark Deals
Aired 21 July 2026 • 42 min
16. Hidden Bases
Aired 28 July 2026 • 42 min
17. Spy Gadgets
Aired 4 August 2026 • 42 min
18. Top Secret Tech
Aired 11 August 2026 • 42 min
19. High Strangeness
Aired 18 August 2026 • 42 min
20. Ingenious Disguises
Aired 25 August 2026 • 42 min