Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 16
15 episodes · premiered Feb 25, 1997
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- Episode 1: Love Story Feb 25, 1997 · 50m A Second World War love affair between German housewife Lilly Wust and young Jewish lesbian Felice Schragenheim.
- Episode 2: Before Columbus Mar 4, 1997 · 50m Christopher Columbus is popularly believed to have been, in 1492, the first European to discover America. However, some historians are convinced the New World was known before he set sail…
- Episode 3: Secret Memories Mar 11, 1997 · 50m A wireless operator who survived torture and a Nazi concentration camp, a 20-year-old sabotage expert, and an MI6 agent who filmed his own undercover operations are just three of the…
- Episode 4: The Boer War: The First Media War Mar 18, 1997 · 50m The Boer War of 1899-1902 saw correspondents and cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time. Diaries, memoirs, photographs and films form part of an examination of…
- Episode 5: Birth Story Mar 25, 1997 · 50m For centuries babies were born at home, their mothers assisted through the birth by other women. But 50 years ago, childbirth was taken out of the home and into hospitals. The transition…
- Episode 6: Forgotten Allies Apr 1, 1997 · 50m When war broke out in South East Asia in 1941, one hill tribe - the Christian, English-speaking Karen - distinguished itself in the fight against Japan. Karen helped halt the Japanese…
- Episode 7: Back to the Iron Age Apr 18, 1997 · 50m Tonight's documentary reassesses a project from 1977 designed to find out more about prehistoric life. For over a year a group of young people lived and worked on a replica of an Iron Age…
- Episode 8: The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai Oct 28, 1997 · 50m Forty years ago a war movie created a legend. Timewatch now tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Toosey, the British officer in Burma whose job it was to supply the Japanese with a…
- Episode 9: Lords of the Maya Nov 4, 1997 · 50m As Christianity became a dominant religious force in Europe, a religious movement was shaping the ancient Mayan civilisation of central America. It was based upon the arrival of a…
- Episode 10: Alison: A Personal History Nov 11, 1997 · 50m In 1988 the third film about the inspirational life of Alison French, who has cerebral palsy, saw her get married to Mark John. Ten years and two children later, she talks candidly about…
- Episode 11: The Gentlemen Spies Nov 18, 1997 · 50m The first secret documents released by MI5 to the Public Records Office cover its establishment by the mysterious Vernon Kell, code-named "K", in 1909, and the fight to counter the German…
- Episode 12: The African Trade Nov 25, 1997 · 50m Transatlantic slavery was responsible for the largest long-distance forced migration in history. Europeans did not venture into the interior of Africa until after abolition, so how did…
- Episode 13: Lenin's Secret Files Dec 2, 1997 · 50m Secret files documenting the life of Lenin were hidden away for decades by Soviet authorities in a labyrinth of vaults deep underground, behind blast-proof steel doors specially…
- Episode 14: Remember the Ugandan Asians Dec 9, 1997 · 50m Twenty-five years ago the Ugandan Asians arrived in Britain, having been expelled from their own country. Greeted warmly on their arrival, they also saw the harsh face of Britain, with the…
- Episode 15: In Search of Cleopatra Dec 16, 1997 · 50m Explores the myths that still surround the legendary Egyptian queen, and attempts to unravel the truth behind a life - and death - that helped to shape the civilised world for the next 500…