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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Mob Code

    • August 15, 2022
    • Sky History

    Armed with just a pencil and paper, suburban mother Elizebeth Friedman cracks the codes that bring down the mob, save countless lives in World War II, and prevent a Nazi invasion of America.

  • S01E02 The Killer Code

    • August 22, 2022
    • Sky History

    The desperate bid to break the complex coded messages of the Zodiac, America's most mysterious serial killer.

  • S01E03 The Japanese Super Code

    • August 29, 2022
    • Sky History

    A naval officer with a penchant for crosswords attempts stop the Japanese onslaught and turn the War in the Pacific in America's favor following the horror of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

  • S01E04 The Lost Civilization

    • September 5, 2022
    • Sky History

    The deciphering of a mysterious ancient language and the unlocking its secrets is a 50-year obsessive journey that rewrites history.

  • S01E05 The Gang Code

    • September 12, 2022
    • Sky History

    Criminal gangs across the world use highly encrypted phones to stay under the radar; the police are always one step behind until a team of investigators works out how to turn the phones against the criminals and catch them red-handed.

  • S01E06 The Cold War Code

    • September 19, 2022
    • Sky History

    America's top-secret team of codebreakers cracks the Soviet Union's unbreakable code to unmask spies at the very highest levels of government.

  • S01E07 The Code That Won the Great War

    • September 26, 2022
    • Sky History

    An encrypted German telegram could save Britain in its darkest hour; a team of eccentric geniuses attempts to decode the message in time, even if revealing its contents may forever damage Britain's relationship with its ally, America.

  • S01E08 The Human Code

    • October 3, 2022
    • Sky History

    The roller-coaster ride of cracking humanity's most complex and important code - the Human Genome. Unravelling its secrets pushes modern science to its very limits - pitting molecular biologists against big business in the race to stop mankind's own genetic code being sold.