Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 15
13 episodes · premiered Jan 14, 1996
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- Episode 1: Karnak - A Hidden History Jan 14, 1996 · 50m The temple at Karnak in Egypt, founded around 1500 BC, was the greatest religious shrine of the ancient world, taking 2,000 years and the work of 80,000 people to complete. Yet much of…
- Episode 2: Russia's Secret War Jan 21, 1996 · 50m Some historians have always suspected that Stalin was behind the Korean War, but the Soviets have denied involvement. By obtaining documents from recently opened archives and finding new…
- Episode 3: Drake's Last Voyage Jan 28, 1996 · 50m Four hundred years ago today, Sir Francis Drake was buried at sea off the coast of Panama after unsuccessfully trying to recapture past glories. History records that his reputation lay in…
- Episode 4: Bad Boys Feb 4, 1996 · 50m A 1973 documentary from the 'Man Alive' series portrayed the lives of six teenage male offenders and their time in Peper Harow, a community in Surrey that promoted a policy of treatment…
- Episode 5: Voices of Victorian London Feb 11, 1996 · 50m Had documentary film-makers roamed the streets of London in the mid-19th century, they would have encountered an extraordinary range of characters. A rat catcher, a woman who sells dog…
- Episode 6: Special: Haig - The Unknown Soldier Jul 3, 1996 · 50m A special edition of the historical documentary series. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has been lampooned as the worst type of British officer for his command of the army in the First…
- Episode 7: Hannibal and Desert Storm Sep 10, 1996 · 50m When General Norman Schwarzkopf planned and executed the Gulf War's "Desert Storm", he looked to the history books for his strategy and found his inspiration in the distant figure of…
- Episode 8: The History of a Mystery Sep 17, 1996 · 50m Rennes-le-Chateau in southern France is home to one of the century's greatest conspiracy theories. For over a century there have been rumours about treasure buried beneath its streets…
- Episode 9: Gold Rush Memories Sep 24, 1996 · 50m A hundred years ago, gold was discovered on a tributary of the Klondike River in north-west Canada, sparking off an extraordinary stampede across the snowbound passes of the Yukon. Will…
- Episode 10: Stalin's Foreign Slaves Oct 1, 1996 · 50m For half a century the Soviet Union's labour camps made virtual slaves of millions of Russians. Tens of thousands of foreigners were also caught up in this nightmare world. Using…
- Episode 11: Baiting the Bear Oct 8, 1996 · 50m From 1948-64 Curtis E LeMay and Thomas Power controlled the nuclear bombers and missiles of the USA's Strategic Air Command, the most powerful military force the world has ever seen. But…
- Episode 12: Remember Aberfan Oct 15, 1996 · 50m Tonight's documentary visits the small mining village in South Wales where, in October 1966, disaster struck when a coal tip above the village collapsed and crashed down the hillside at…
- Episode 13: Cry Hungary Oct 22, 1996 · 50m Forty years ago this week, thousands of Hungarians demonstrated on the streets of Budapest in protest against Soviet occupation of their country and communist oppression. Subsequent Soviet…