Back from the Dead

Series & Episodes

• Samurai: Back from the Dead

  First broadcast: Sunday 18 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4

  The unearthing of a gruesome grave filled with thousands of skeletons at Kamakura in Japan could hold the answers to the mystery surrounding the true origins of one of the most feared and revered warriors of all time: the Samurai.

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• Crusaders: Back from the Dead

  First broadcast: Sunday 11 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4

  Excavations along the Israel/Jordan border are unearthing skeletons and rewriting the history of the First Crusade.

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• Nelson's Navy: Back from the Dead

  First broadcast: Sunday 04 September 2011, 8PM on Channel 4

  Three-hundred-and-fifty skeletons, exhumed from Royal Navy graveyards from the age of Nelson's Navy, are throwing an extraordinary new light on how these sailors lived, fought, outwitted their enemy, and, from the oldest to youngest, suffered for victory.

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