影片聚焦第二次世界大战盟军策划的“绞肉行动”，歼灭德军数十万，为二战胜利奠定基础。1943年，盟军决定打破希特勒对被占领的欧洲地区的统治，情报官员埃文（科林·费尔斯 饰）和查尔斯（马修·麦克费登 饰）想出了一个妙不可言的假情报策略：用一具携带虚假机密的尸体误导德军，将其注意力引向希腊。希特勒中计后，盟军登陆了西西里岛，歼灭近20万德军，为欧洲战场的胜利奠定了坚实的基础。

　　希区柯克又一部根据舞台剧改编的作品，编剧是大才子诺尔·考沃德，为了抢时间，在《下坡路》还没杀青的时候，希区柯克就带着剧组去法国出外景了。影片讲述了丈夫发现女主角被画家求爱而提出离婚，她又经历了一段新的婚姻但还是以离婚收场。片中有一个希区柯克相当得意的段落，男主角向女主角求婚的段落从头至尾都是通过一个接线员来展示的。另外，希区柯克在片中是否客串也成为影史谜团之一，有兴趣的朋友可以注意网球场这个段落，看看是否真是希胖现身。

　　过去的遗物隐藏着秘密，刻在黄金、石器和鲜血之上，我们可以解锁，这是历史最伟大宝藏的秘密。一座和到来同样突然地消失的古城发生了什么？一张耶稣时代的藏宝图，有60个藏宝处，它们在哪儿？培尔-拉美西斯，消失在历史中的城市，神秘的命运终于被揭开。年轻国王图坦卡蒙的墓穴带着吸引了全世界想象力的黄金宝藏，然而墓穴满是阻碍学者们的谜团。基督教的终极遗物无缘无故就失踪了，我们的调查员会在古文献和掩埋的废墟中查找线索，来揭开全新的发现。希腊哲学家柏拉图记录的传说，亚特兰蒂斯，真的存在吗？

　　Episode 1 - Ark of the Covenant
　　The hunt for the truth about the most famous lost treasure of them all. Did the Ark of the Covenant really exist? What it did look like? What was the power that it was said to hold? And what happened to it? Where is it now?
　　Episode 2 - Bust of Nefertiti
　　The extraordinary story behind one of the most famous images from the ancient world. Who was Queen Nefertiti? Who made the blue-crowned bust which turned her into a modern icon? Could the Nefertiti bust be a fake?
　　Episode 3 - Great Pyramid
　　Armed with a four and a half thousand year old diary, and a radical new approach. Engineer Peter James and leading archaeologist Mark Lehner set out to solve Ancient Egypt’s greatest mystery. How was the Great Pyramid built?
　　Episode 4 - Easter Island Heads
　　Unlocking the mysteries of the most recognizable statues on earth.  How were the thousand giant stone heads of Easter Island made, and why? Why did the Islanders topple all of them, except one?
　　Episode 5 - Blackbeard's Ship
　　Off the coast of North Carolina, nautical archaeologists, historians and scientists study the artifacts of a 300 year old shipwreck. Positively identified as Blackbeard’s flagship, our investigators set about to uncover what the ship’s remains can tell us about history’s most notorious pirate.
　　Episode 6 - Spear of Destiny
　　In a search that spans four countries and 20 centuries, we investigate the legend of the Spear of Destiny. First mentioned in the New Testament, the spear is said to have pierced the side of Jesus. Believed to have special powers, kings and conquerors from Charlemagne to Hitler tried to possess it.