The Best Government Secrets Documentaries

Conspiracies & Cover-Ups - 12 free documentaries about government secrets.

Start with Inside The Military’s Secret Psychic Unit (21 min, Real Stories), then Alabama’s Biggest Secret - Operation Paperclip 🇺🇸 (62 min, Peter Santenello). All 12 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on government secrets is Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner.

• Inside The Military’s Secret Psychic Unit (21 min, Real Stories)
• Alabama’s Biggest Secret - Operation Paperclip 🇺🇸 (62 min, Peter Santenello)
• Hawaii's Stolen Kingdom: Uncovering an American Conspiracy (53 min, Real Stories)
• Top Secret Government Experiments (S1, E8) | The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd (42 min, HISTORY)
• Declassified: The Cold War Nuclear Near-Misses Covered Up By The US (52 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• Secrets Behind the Biggest Government Conspiracies | The Proof Is Out There (51 min, HISTORY)
• America's Cold War Nuclear Cover Ups Declassified (104 min, Real Stories)
• Yemen's COVID Cover-Up (27 min, FRONTLINE PBS)
• Declassified: The Lost H-Bombs Of The Cold War (52 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• CIA Cold War Conspiracies | NASA's Unexplained Files (21 min, Science Channel)
• The CIA’s Plan to Sterilize 11 Million Americans (139 min, Wonder)
• Accounts of a Nuclear Whistleblower (14 min, Aeon)

Top-Rated Books About Government Secrets

1. Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
2. All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein (3.7/5) - View on Amazon
3. Poisoner in Chief by Stephen Kinzer - View on Amazon
4. Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen - View on Amazon
5. The Burglary by Betty Medsger - View on Amazon
6. Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by James H. Jones - View on Amazon
7. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden (4.5/5) - View on Amazon
8. The devil's chessboard by David Talbot - View on Amazon