Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 8
11 episodes · premiered Jan 11, 1989
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- Episode 1: Light in the Dark Jan 11, 1989 · 1h During the Nazi occupation of eastern Poland, a small group of Jews in the city of Lvov tried to save themselves from the death camps by hiding in the sewers beneath the city for more than…
- Episode 2: An Age of Empire Feb 8, 1989 · 50m What effect did Charlie Chaplin have on the sale of tea? What first caused the sudden and surprising popularity of tennis and golf? And to what extent was the middle class of England…
- Episode 3: Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor Apr 5, 1989 · 1h 10m For nearly 50 years the world has been led to believe President Roosevelt's statement that the attack was a total surprise and completely unsuspected by the neutral Americans. But…
- Episode 4: Playing with History May 3, 1989 · 50m Two stories reflect the contribution made to history by non-professionals. BRITISH AND GUARANTEED: A look at those who re-create their childhood and the golden age of British engineering…
- Episode 5: Witnesses May 31, 1989 · 50m Two eyewitness accounts of the past - 500 years apart. The 15th-century letters of Margaret Paston push aside people's misconceptions about medieval women as passive objects. Harriet…
- Episode 6: The Night of the Long Knives Jul 27, 1989 · 1h In July 1962, Harold Macmillan sacked a third of his Cabinet, including Chancellor of the Exchequer and some of his oldest political friends. Did the normally unflappable Macmillan panic?…
- Episode 7: Summer of the Bomb Aug 9, 1989 · 1h Did the atomic bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki really shorten the war and save Allied lives? Based on American archive records, this dramatic account of the decision to use the…
- Episode 8: The Land of Lost Content Sep 6, 1989 · 50m England's land was green but never pleasant. So why do villages and fields conjure up a happy, wholesome past? This film unravels the ironic tale of poverty in countryside and town which…
- Episode 9: Trotsky Oct 4, 1989 · 1h Leon Trotsky was one of the architects of the Russian Revolution and creator of the Red Army. Brilliant and eloquent, and expected to succeed Lenin, he was forced into exile, airbrushed…
- Episode 10: Fascist Legacy: 1: A Promise Fulfilled Nov 1, 1989 · 50m During the Second World War, Italian forces in Yugoslavia murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians. Historians have now exposed the startling political reasons why there was never an…
- Episode 11: Fascist Legacy: 2: A Pledge Betrayed Nov 8, 1989 · 50m At the end of the Second World War, conclusive evidence of war crimes was presented against more than 1,200 high-ranking Italian Fascists. Yet despite constant protests from the…