Episode guide
Timewatch: Specials
12 episodes · premiered Aug 17, 1991
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- Episode 1: My Private War Aug 17, 1991 · 1h 30m The experiences of six German soldiers who survived the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 are vividly captured through the viewfinders of the amateur film cameras they carried…
- Episode 2: Blockade Aug 31, 1991 · 1h 30m When the German army surrounded Leningrad in 1941, it was the beginning of a terrible 900 days of isolation for its citizens. On a meager bread ration and with temperatures of minus 40…
- Episode 3: LBJ: 1: Beautiful Texas Sep 15, 1991 · 1h First of a four-part Timewatch reassessment of the life and work of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who took over as US President following the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963. Part 1…
- Episode 4: LBJ: 2: My Fellow Americans Sep 19, 1991 · 1h The new president reassured a nation stunned by John F Kennedy's assassination and then surprised America with his forceful stand on civil rights and his programme for a Great Society…
- Episode 5: LBJ: 3: We Shall Overcome Sep 22, 1991 · 1h Johnson had galvanised America with his appeal for racial justice and his vision for a 'Great Society'. But at the same time, he had promised not to send American troops to Vietnam…
- Episode 6: LBJ: 4: The Last Believer Sep 26, 1991 · 1h As Johnson's term of office drew to a close, riots raged in the inner cities, and anti-Vietnam protesters demonstrated all over the country. With the United States as close to anarchy as…
- Episode 7: A Homecoming Jul 1, 1990 · 50m The story of Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim, one of the many wealthy Germans whose lands were taken away from them in 1945, and his return to his former home for the first time in 45 years.
- Episode 8: Dunkirk 1940: The 'Great Escape' May 27, 1990 · 50m In May 1940, Hitler's Panzers trapped the armies of Britain and France in a pocket of land around the French port of Dunkirk. Escape seemed impossible, but within nine days more than…
- Episode 9: All the King's Men: Update May 11, 1988 · 1h During the summer of 1943, the SOE's largest network in occupied France collapsed, and more than 400 of the French Resistance were arrested. At the centre of this disaster stood the figure…
- Episode 10: Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry Oct 6, 2009 · 1h On 14 November 1940 the German Luftwaffe dropped so many bombs on Coventry that three quarters of the city was destroyed. Such was the devastation, the Germans coined a term to describe it…
- Episode 11: From Burning to Body Snatching: The Victorian Way of Death May 4, 2001
- Episode 12: Edward VII: Prince of Pleasure Mar 23, 2010 · 59m King Edward VII has always been an enigma. Twentieth-century dynasty builder and sex addict, boorish philistine and civilised cosmopolitan - he was all of these. Using extensive new…