The Romanovs: Crown. Curse. Cellar.

Episodes

1. 01 Episode 1: The Bones Buried Seventy Meters Away Free2:08 Nearly ninety years after the Romanovs vanished, 44 fragments discovered beside a road promised to identify the two children history could not find.
2. 02 Episode 2: The Family Smiling Before It Vanished Locked1:35 A surviving garden photograph and a tutor's testimony restore five imperial children to life before history reduces them to bones.
3. 03 Episode 3: The City That Became Their Trap Locked1:42 As White forces close on Ekaterinburg, the captive Romanovs become a prize the Bolsheviks cannot risk losing.
4. 04 Episode 4: The Night No One Was Meant to Survive Locked1:32 In the early hours of July 17, 1918, the imperial family's captivity ends—and a century of uncertainty begins.
5. 05 Episode 5: The Investigation That Began Too Late Locked2:01 Days after the killings, Admiral Kolchak orders investigators to reconstruct a crime whose bodies have disappeared.
6. 06 Episode 6: The Detective Who Questioned Everyone Locked1:40 Nikolai Sokolov builds the first great Romanov case file from witnesses, photographs and fragments scattered by civil war.
7. 07 Episode 7: The Files That Escaped Russia Locked1:41 As Soviet silence closes over the murders, copies of the Romanov investigation travel abroad and become the foundation of a forbidden history.
8. 08 Episode 8: The Woman Who Said She Was Anastasia Locked1:38 Anna Anderson transforms missing bodies and Soviet secrecy into the twentieth century's most famous royal survival claim.
9. 09 Episode 9: The Grave Kept Secret for Sixteen Years Locked1:55 Alexander Avdonin finds the Romanov burial site in the Soviet era, then hides its location until the state that concealed the truth collapses.
10. 10 Episode 10: The Royal Relative Hidden in the DNA Locked1:37 Scientists use a living prince and a family pattern inside nine skeletons to test whether the Ural grave contains Russia's last rulers.
11. 11 Episode 11: The Single Letter That Threatened the Case Locked1:42 One disputed point in Nicholas II's mitochondrial DNA sparks a scientific challenge—until his dead brother provides an answer.
12. 12 Episode 12: The Second Grave Beside the Road Locked1:55 A new discovery only seventy meters from the first grave reopens the case of the two Romanov children who never came home.
13. 13 Episode 13: The Three Tests That Ended a Legend Locked1:24 Three independent forms of DNA analysis converge on the missing Romanov children and close the survival mystery that defined a century.
14. 14 Episode 14: The Order That Was Never Found Locked2:10 The Romanovs can finally be identified, but the surviving record stops short of naming the person who ordered their execution.