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The 10 episodes of History Detectives Season 5 are available on DVD. Browse below for your favorite episode.

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Episode 1: In this episode; a woman in Oregon, has a projection screen that may have helped save the Free World; a man in Florida purchased a record that may be a rare recording of a popular radio program; and a woman bought a painting at a garage sale twenty years ago that may have helped to secure women's right to vote.
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Episode 2: In this episode a family in Nebraska has found a puzzling $6 bill that they are eager to learn about; a man in New York has a British 10-shilling note that is an autograph hunter's dream; and a woman in North Carolina owns an unassuming pin that, according to lore, is made of metal drawn from the Liberty Bell.
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Episode 3: In this episode a Civil War enthusiast in Pennsylvania, owns a striking vintage photograph of the first national social group to challenge the color barrier; in Washington, DC, a photo archivist has discovered what may be a momentous piece of history; and a bar Reno, Nevada may house the Jack Dempsey fight bell.
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Episode 4: In this episode host Tukufu Zuberi translates 300-year-old documents from the Spanish treasury in Seville; a student found a book emblazoned with the name and address of the legendary anarchist Lucy Parsons; and an Oregon man thinks he may have a typewriter that belonged to the famous WWII journalist Ernie Pyle.
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Episode 5: In this episode a man from San Francisco discovered a stash of posters announcing the Great Mexican War; a man inherited a curious autograph book that belonged to a woman named Nora Holt, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance; and host Elyse Luray tries to find the truth behind the story of the Muhlenberg Robe.
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Episode 6: In this episode a woman has fabric she believes came from the NC-4, a U.S. Navy "flying boat" commissioned to alert U.S. destroyers to German submarines; a man may own a altimeter from Howard Hughes fiery airplane crash; and a collector may have a fragment from the dawn of American military airpower.
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Episode 7: In this episode a Nebraska man obtained a curious letter from his grandfather from the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, a man in California owns a 1932 Ford roadster that he suspects was used for dry-lake racing, and a zoo in New Jersey houses a iron eagle that may have once graced the old Grand Central Station.
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Episode 8: In this episode a Tampa man made a potentially extraordinary discovery in a stack of old photos, a hand-drawn map that a New Jersey woman picked up at an estate sale may be of the Underground Railroad, and an Ohio man owns some artifacts that he believes date back to a kamikaze attack on the U.S.S.
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Episode 9: In this episode a Staten Island woman has a saddle she believes was once owned by cowboy Bill Pickett, a Washington man has a flag that he claims once draped the casket of President William McKinley, and a contributor in New York, has many film cans he believes may contain German home movies of Nazi officials.
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Episode 10: In this episode a man in Massachusetts has documents that may be linked a secret weapon from the U.S. Cold War arsenal, a comic book collector in New York is curious to learn the identity of a cartoonist, and a contributor in New York has a scrapbook of documents connected with the top-secret Manhattan Project.
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