TV Guide American Heroes Channel Friday

The Vatican is one of the most secretive institutions on earth, protecting not only its elite reputation, but it's faithful members, with reckless abandon.

An examination is presented into some of the world's most iconic and clandestine institutions, featuring a look into some of America's most infamous cults.

A look is taken into some of the world's most iconic institutions and stories, featuring the United States' quest to create super soldiers during the Cold War.

An examination of where most of today's gold is located, and who holds the ownership rights to this precious metal, long treasured and fought over by man.

The Vatican is one of the most secretive institutions on earth, protecting not only its elite reputation, but it's faithful members, with reckless abandon.

An in-depth examination is taken into the possibility that aliens built the pyramids and the controversial writings of Swiss author Erich von Daniken.

An in-depth and behind-the-scenes examination is taken into the secrets that surround some of the United States' Founding Fathers.

A criminal attempts to turn his life around and build a reputation as a successful car salesman after spending years in prison for robbery and assault.

A convict intercepts a prison van transporting a state prisoner, ambushes the two guards on duty, and shoots them during an attempt to free a prisoner.

After being fired from her job as a caregiver for an elderly widow, a woman and her daughter decide to steal jewelry from the 77-year-old woman.

A man is able to escape from prison on seven different occasions in an attempt to avoid serving his five life sentences for a spree of robberies in Florida.

Police officers hunt a mother of three after she robs a bank in rural Indiana and then flees with her children and girlfriend to Mexico.

A con artist eludes authorities while accomplishing various feats under different identities, including administering mass while posing as a Catholic priest.

After being arrested and forcing his way out of jail, a criminal goes on the run and relies on connections to help him escape to Mexico through drug tunnels.

A wanted fugitive meets a woman and is able to settle down into a quiet suburban life for a length of time until the FBI gets wind of his whereabouts.

A young robber manages to escape from prison by cutting the bars to his cell with smuggled knife blades and then goes on the run with help from his family.

A Tennessee man becomes hunted by the police after his makeshift meth lab blows up and he kills another man during a fight over money.

After learning that the police are looking for them, two teenage brothers record an audio tape threatening to kill anyone who tries to apprehend them.

A young man is sent to prison after confessing to murdering his mother and three siblings, but he pulls off a daring escape and flees into the wilderness.

A serial thief attempts to support his new girlfriend by robbing civilians, but problems arise when a burglary goes wrong and a target is killed in the process.

A fugitive is apprehended by authorities but escapes from prison by hiding in a trash bin, forcing him to go on the run a second time.

A Miami woman makes a living by stealing from tourists entering the city, but problems arise when a robbery goes awry and a tourist is killed.

A con artist convinces his girlfriend to forge bad checks and then murders both her and her son in order to make a clean escape to New Orleans.

When a fugitive joins the American Nazi Party, he shows his devotion by killing a neighbor, but his life of crime later ends in an intense police showdown.

A man eludes the police after terrorizing his Florida neighborhood with over a dozen break-ins; a woman goes on the run after severely beating her ex-boyfriend.

A Miami woman makes a living by stealing from tourists entering the city, but problems arise when a robbery goes awry and a tourist is killed.

A con artist convinces his girlfriend to forge bad checks and then murders both her and her son in order to make a clean escape to New Orleans.

When a fugitive joins the American Nazi Party, he shows his devotion by killing a neighbor, but his life of crime later ends in an intense police showdown.

A man eludes the police after terrorizing his Florida neighborhood with over a dozen break-ins; a woman goes on the run after severely beating her ex-boyfriend.

A serial thief attempts to support his new girlfriend by robbing civilians, but problems arise when a burglary goes wrong and a target is killed in the process.