We’ll tackle some of history’s most enduring mysteries - both familiar tales and little-known episodes that have never been told before on television.Click the button to sort the table alphabetically, by name: The series casts its net wide, exploring the corners and backrooms of institutions dedicated to a variety of popular and entertaining subjects - invisible spies, cold-blooded assassins, dinosaurs, the paranormal, the Old West, the Cold War and more. Each hour of this series will take viewers on a captivating, revealing and at times shocking tour of America’s past, revisiting its most crucial events by reexamining what has been left behind. Whether a diary from an Arctic exploration, a stone giant thought to be the remnant of a race of enormous people or a futuristic house that almost changed the world, iconic museum artifacts help us uncover who we are and what we’ve become. Behind each artifact is yet another story to be told and secrets to be revealed - tales brimming with scandal, mystery, murder and intrigue.
Museums are where America displays its wondrous treasures of the past - often strange and curious remnants of the momentous events that have shaped our history. In season four, the show covered stories including high-profile cases such as Raffaello Follieri, Marcus Schrenker, and Sholam Weiss. The series has also produced specials on subjects like Bernie Madoff’s life behind bars, and how organized crime groups earn money. Other topics have included the story behind Nevada’s infamous Mustang Ranch, and rise-and-fall pieces on such highly successful, high-profile businesspeople as boy band impresario Lou Pearlman and Mark Dreier. In addition, stories about common financial crimes that affect scores of everyday citizens are also featured. history examples include WorldCom, HealthSouth and Tyco International. The program focuses on the stories behind some of the biggest corporate and white collar crimes in recent U.S. The program is narrated by Stacy Keach Jr.
American Greed, also called American Greed: Scams, Scoundrels, And Suckers and American Greed: Scams, Schemes, And Broken Dreams, is a weekly American “true crime” television documentary series aired on CNBC.