Episode guide
Timewatch: Season 9
13 episodes · premiered Jan 17, 1990
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- Episode 1: An Edge of Conspiracy Jan 17, 1990 · 50m Was the last prisoner of Spandau Prison in Berlin really Rudolf Hess, one time deputy to Adolf Hitler, or a doppelganger put in his place by the Nazis before his incredible flight to…
- Episode 2: Napoleon's Last Battle Feb 21, 1990 · 1h 5m Timewatch explores the myth of the man who had a vision of a united Europe 175 years ago.
- Episode 3: Hungary: The End of Silence Mar 21, 1990 · 1h The Communist party of Hungary has been forced to surrender its monopoly on truth, but it still controls access to the official archives. Any truths about the past 40 years must…
- Episode 4: Accounts of a Forgotten Army Sep 5, 1990 · 50m In 1945 the German State and its army disappeared. Recently, harrowing tales from Germans who were prisoners in American camps at that time have begun to emerge. A Canadian author has…
- Episode 5: Helping the Police with Their Enquiries Sep 19, 1990 · 50m In the USA it is becoming standard practice for police to call in archaeologists and anthropologists with their skills at excavation and bone analysis to help them unravel murder cases…
- Episode 6: The Sipan Affair Oct 3, 1990 · 50m In January 1987 a band of grave robbers broke into a royal tomb at Sipan in northern Peru. The treasure they plundered was worth millions. Within months it had been smuggled by way of…
- Episode 7: I Don't Want to Be Remembered As a Chair Oct 17, 1990 · 50m On the shore of Sabbathday Lake in Maine lives a religious community of nine men and women. They are the last practising Shakers - members of a sect once persecuted for its dissenting…
- Episode 8: All the King's Jews Oct 31, 1990 · 50m Seven hundred years ago tomorrow - on 1 November 1290 - the Jews were expelled from England. Christopher Andrew unfolds the extraordinary story of England's medieval Jews and discovers the…
- Episode 9: A War Far from Home Nov 14, 1990 · 50m In 1914-15 138,000 Indians fought on the Western Front. More than a quarter were casualties. We know what the ordinary soldier felt about the war in France because his letters home were…
- Episode 10: One of the Reasons Why Nov 28, 1990 · 50m Charles Wheeler tells how the colonial policy of the post-war Labour government led to the start of a 30-year war in Vietnam.
- Episode 11: White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave Dec 12, 1990 · 49m On January 23 1915, black insurgents broke into a house on the biggest plantation in British colonial Nyasaland. The rebels killed the white manager, cut off his head and carried it home…
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