Shadows and Dust

Name: Shadows and Dust
Released: 2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Daniel Oron, James MacPhee

TV Show · Documentary · History

From the Peking Man to fugitive DB Cooper, Columbus' sunken Santa Maria and Cambyses II's missing armies, history's missing pieces are shrouded in mystery. As clues ignite public obsessions, investigators follow a trail through history to recover what has been lost. What is the truth behind these infamous disappearances? Can we ever hope to know the fate of these lost historic treasures?

2026 · 52m

Starring Daniel Oron, James MacPhee

EPISODE 1

The Stolen Amber Room

In 1941 Soviet Russia, the Nazis remove twenty-two priceless amber panels from Catherine Palace and ship them to an unknown location. After the war, an eighty-year quest for their recovery becomes ensnared in a web of cover-ups, shipwrecks.
EPISODE 2

The Florentine Diamond

In 1918 one of the world's largest diamonds vanishes from Vienna's Imperial Treasury. Its disappearance ignites a worldwide scandal, a diplomatic crisis and public speculation. Was the Florentine Diamond stolen by the royals as they fled into exile?
EPISODE 3

DB Cooper

In 1971, a man hijacks a plane and skydives into the dark with a $200,000 ransom; his fate remains a mystery more than half a century later.
EPISODE 4

Roman Concrete

The concrete of the Roman Pantheon has lasted millennia; how did its formula get lost in time? And why can't engineers duplicate its strength?
EPISODE 5

The Santa Maria

Christmas, 1492. Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria sinks off the coast of Hispaniola. Onshore, the crew build the first Spanish settlement of the New World: La Navidad. When Columbus returns to the site, the village has vanished.