Retreat from Reality

With our greatest Presidents, we have to differentiate between the man and the legend. On the next episode of America: Facts vs Fiction learn FDR may have never had polio and Abraham Lincoln and JFK don’t have all that much in common.

Jamie reveals the truth behind America's biggest economic boom.

The true stories of the Alamo & Custer's Last Stand are very different from the way we remember them. Find out how Davy Crockett really died and why Custer might have been court-martialed if he didn't attacked the Indians that outnumbered him.

Jamie Kaler clears the clouds that surround history in the high seas.

Jamie reveals the truth behind the myths of the 20s and 30s.

Jamie reveals the true history of some of America's greatest generals.

Jamie dives into the myths surrounding our most revered patriotic symbols.

Jamie tells the stories of women who played a part during World War II.

Jamie inspects photos and film footage from the Civil War, WWII and more.

Jamie is heading to Sin City to reveal the obscure truth about Las Vegas.

Jamie takes it to the sky with the histories of famous pioneering aviators.

The truth about great feats of engineering can be clouded by myth. Discover that the Panama Canal doesn't run east and west, but north and south. And that the Transcontinental Railroad wasn't completed at Utah’s Promontory Point.

Jamie reveals the truth about some of America's greatest generals.

A battalion fights against impossible odds at the Battle of the Bulge.

In 1995, there is an international hunt for criminal "Whitey" Bulger.

The Mafia's power grows as they add rogue NYPD cops to the mob payroll.