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Ended · 1982–2017

Timewatch

Mystery / History

A series of historical documentaries originally broadcast on BBC Two, but more recently airing on BBC Four.

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Season 1982 · 4 episodes
  1. S1982 E01 · Windsors' War
  2. S1982 E02 · Episode 2
  3. S1982 E03 · Episode 3
  4. S1982 E04 · Episode 4
Season 1983 · 4 episodes
  1. S1983 E01 · Episode 1
  2. S1983 E02 · Episode 2
  3. S1983 E03 · Episode 3
  4. S1983 E04 · Episode 4
Season 1984 · 1 episodes
  1. S1984 E01 · Timewatch
Season 1985 · 2 episodes
  1. S1985 E01 · The Age of Charles II
  2. S1985 E02 · Magic Circles
Season 1986 · 2 episodes
  1. S1986 E01 · The Master Builders
  2. S1986 E02 · Most Dangerous Women
Season 1987 · 2 episodes
  1. S1987 E01 · Fateful Century
  2. S1987 E02 · Judgement in Jerusalem
Season 1988 · 10 episodes
  1. S1988 E01 · Evidence of Neglect
  2. S1988 E02 · Wars of the Word
  3. S1988 E03 · The Man in the Iron Mask
  4. S1988 E04 · The Hunger Winter
  5. S1988 E05 · Dishonour and Death
  6. S1988 E06 · Shreds of Evidence
  7. S1988 E07 · Shadow of the Ripper
  8. S1988 E08 · A Woman's Story
  9. S1988 E09 · Vision of a Conqueror: The Glorious Revolution
  10. S1988 E10 · Bukharin and the Terror
Season 1989 · 11 episodes
  1. S1989 E01 · Light in the Dark
  2. S1989 E02 · An Age of Empire
  3. S1989 E03 · Sacrifice at Pearl Harbour
  4. S1989 E04 · Playing with History
  5. S1989 E05 · Witnesses
  6. S1989 E06 · The Night of the Long Knives
  7. S1989 E07 · Summer of the Bomb
  8. S1989 E08 · The Land of Lost Content
  9. S1989 E09 · Trotsky
  10. S1989 E10 · Fascist Legacy: A Promise Fulfilled
  11. S1989 E11 · Fascist Legacy: A Pledge Betrayed
Season 1990 · 13 episodes
  1. S1990 E01 · An Edge of Conspiracy
  2. S1990 E02 · Napoleon's Last Battle
  3. S1990 E03 · Hungary: The End of Silence
  4. S1990 Special · Dunkirk 1940: The Great Escape
  5. S1990 Special · A Homecoming
  6. S1990 E04 · Accounts of a Forgotten Army
  7. S1990 E05 · Helping the Police with Their Enquiries
  8. S1990 E06 · The Sipán Affair
  9. S1990 E07 · I Don't Want to Be Remembered as a Chair
  10. S1990 E08 · All the King's Jews
  11. S1990 E09 · A War Far from Home
  12. S1990 E10 · One of the Reasons Why
  13. S1990 E11 · White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave
Season 1991 · 14 episodes
  1. S1991 E01 · Savagery and the American Indian - Wilderness
  2. S1991 E02 · Savagery and the American Indian - Civilisation
  3. S1991 E03 · The Man Who Made the Supergun
  4. S1991 E04 · The Reluctant Comrade
  5. S1991 E05 · The Transmission of Roger Bacon
  6. S1991 E06 · Palestine: The First Intifada
  7. S1991 E07 · The Cold War
  8. S1991 E08 · Beside Franco in Spain
  9. S1991 E09 · Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain
  10. S1991 E10 · The Columbus Conspiracy
  11. S1991 E11 · Harvests of Iron: The Watch on the Somme
  12. S1991 E12 · Harvests of Iron: The Theatre of Operations
  13. S1991 E13 · Suffer the Children
  14. S1991 E14 · The Spoils of War
Season 1992 · 20 episodes
  1. S1992 E01 · Battle of the Styles
  2. S1992 E02 · Kwai
  3. S1992 E03 · Churchill's Man?
  4. S1992 E04 · His Own Man
  5. S1992 E05 · Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back
  6. S1992 E06 · The Story of Elizabeth Nietzsche: Forgotten Fatherland
  7. S1992 E07 · The Story of Elizabeth Nietzsche: Mother of the Fatherland
  8. S1992 E08 · SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich
  9. S1992 E09 · Gladio: The Ringmasters
  10. S1992 E10 · Gladio: The Puppeteers
  11. S1992 E11 · Gladio: The Foot Soldiers
  12. S1992 E12 · The Un-Americans: Five Minutes to Midnight
  13. S1992 E13 · The Un-Americans: No Place to Hide
  14. S1992 E14 · The Un-Americans: To Hell with Truth
  15. S1992 E15 · A Diplomat in Japan: A Clash of Cultures
  16. S1992 E16 · A Diplomat in Japan: Witness to a Revolution
  17. S1992 E17 · Cuban Missile Crisis: Defying Uncle Sam
  18. S1992 E18 · Cuban Missile Crisis: Eyeball to Eyeball
  19. S1992 E19 · Sold Down the River
  20. S1992 E20 · Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness
Season 1993 · 14 episodes
  1. S1993 E01 · Allied to the Mafia
  2. S1993 E02 · The Sparks that Lit the Bonfire
  3. S1993 E03 · The Stolen Child
  4. S1993 E04 · The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover
  5. S1993 E05 · The Pill: Prescription for Revolution
  6. S1993 E06 · Buffalo Bill
  7. S1993 E07 · Battle of the Bombers
  8. S1993 E08 · On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging
  9. S1993 E09 · True Story of the Roman Arena
  10. S1993 E10 · The Mother of All Battles
  11. S1993 E11 · Hunger Strike: A Hidden History
  12. S1993 E12 · Children of the Third Reich
  13. S1993 E13 · The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
  14. S1993 E14 · Chairman Mao - The Last Emperor
Season 1994 · 13 episodes
  1. S1994 E01 · Forgotten Heroes - Merchant Seamen at War
  2. S1994 E02 · The Real Rasputin
  3. S1994 E03 · Spies in the Sky
  4. S1994 E04 · Presumed Guilty – A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969
  5. S1994 E05 · Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration
  6. S1994 E06 · Seeds of War
  7. S1994 E07 · The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
  8. S1994 E08 · Hitler's Secret Weapons
  9. S1994 E09 · Flames of War
  10. S1994 E10 · Age of the Sphinx
  11. S1994 E11 · Krushchev – The Peasant Premier
  12. S1994 E12 · Memo from Machiavelli – How to Succeed in British Politics
  13. S1994 E13 · Typhoid Mary
Season 1995 · 12 episodes
  1. S1995 E01 · Out of the Ashes
  2. S1995 E02 · Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam
  3. S1995 E03 · The BBC in Vietnam
  4. S1995 E04 · The Life and Lives of Oscar Wilde
  5. S1995 E05 · Hitler's Death: The Final Report
  6. S1995 E06 · Biafra - Fighting a War without Guns
  7. S1995 E07 · Evidence of Vikings
  8. S1995 E08 · Pocahontas: Her True Story
  9. S1995 E09 · Kamikaze
  10. S1995 E10 · Quiet Revolution
  11. S1995 E11 · The Projection Racket
  12. S1995 E12 · Tanks - Wonder Weapon of WWI?
Season 1996 · 13 episodes
  1. S1996 E01 · Karnak - A Hidden History
  2. S1996 E02 · Russia's Secret War
  3. S1996 E03 · Drake's Last Voyage
  4. S1996 E04 · Bad Boys
  5. S1996 E05 · Voices of Victorian London
  6. S1996 E06 · Haig: The Unknown Soldier
  7. S1996 E07 · Hannibal and Desert Storm
  8. S1996 E08 · The History of a Mystery
  9. S1996 E09 · Gold Rush Memories
  10. S1996 E10 · Stalin's Foreign Slaves
  11. S1996 E11 · Baiting the Bear
  12. S1996 E12 · Remember Aberfan
  13. S1996 E13 · Cry Hungary
Season 1997 · 15 episodes
  1. S1997 E01 · Love Story
  2. S1997 E02 · Before Columbus
  3. S1997 E03 · Secret Memories
  4. S1997 E04 · The Boer War: The First Media War
  5. S1997 E05 · Birth Story
  6. S1997 E06 · Forgotten Allies
  7. S1997 E07 · Back to the Iron Age
  8. S1997 E08 · The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
  9. S1997 E09 · Lords of the Maya
  10. S1997 E10 · Alison: A Personal History
  11. S1997 E11 · The Gentlemen Spies
  12. S1997 E12 · The African Trade
  13. S1997 E13 · Lenin's Secret Files
  14. S1997 E14 · Remember the Ugandan Asians
  15. S1997 E15 · In Search of Cleopatra
Season 1998 · 12 episodes
  1. S1998 E01 · Hitler and the Invasion of Britain
  2. S1998 E02 · Grammar School Boys
  3. S1998 E03 · The Oklahoma Outlaw
  4. S1998 E04 · The Roman Way of War
  5. S1998 E05 · Las Vegas and the Mormons
  6. S1998 E06 · Aborigine - A Collision of Conscience
  7. S1998 E07 · Sex and War
  8. S1998 E08 · Lloyd George's War
  9. S1998 E09 · The Pilgrim Obsession
  10. S1998 E10 · Banking with Hitler
  11. S1998 E11 · The British in India
  12. S1998 E12 · An American Firefight
Season 1999 · 12 episodes
  1. S1999 E01 · Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax
  2. S1999 E02 · The Crossing
  3. S1999 E03 · Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs
  4. S1999 E04 · The Lost Temple of Java
  5. S1999 E05 · Sleeping with the Enemy
  6. S1999 E06 · Before the Titanic
  7. S1999 E07 · The Forgotten Volunteers
  8. S1999 E08 · Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle
  9. S1999 E09 · The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War
  10. S1999 E10 · Ivan the Terrible
  11. S1999 E11 · Tales of the Eiffel Tower
  12. S1999 E12 · A Very British Mutiny
Season 2000 · 2 episodes
  1. S2000 E01 · The Germans We Kept
  2. S2000 E02 · Brazil: An Inconvenient History
Season 2001 · 13 episodes
  1. S2001 Special · The Victorian Way of Death: From Body Snatching to Burning
  2. S2001 E01 · The Empire State Story
  3. S2001 E02 · Himmler, Hitler and the End of the Reich
  4. S2001 E03 · The King's Servant
  5. S2001 E04 · Nero's Golden House
  6. S2001 E05 · Public Enemy Number One
  7. S2001 E06 · Hitler, Churchill and the Paratroopers
  8. S2001 E07 · The Last Surrender
  9. S2001 E08 · Debutantes
  10. S2001 E09 · Strangeways Revisited
  11. S2001 E10 · Scharnhorst
  12. S2001 E11 · Roman Soldiers to Be
  13. S2001 E12 · Bombing Germany
Season 2002 · 12 episodes
  1. S2002 E01 · The Making of Adolf Hitler
  2. S2002 E02 · Mystery of the Iron Bridge
  3. S2002 E03 · Death of the Battleship
  4. S2002 E04 · Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea
  5. S2002 E05 · Jubilee Day
  6. S2002 E06 · Myths of the Titanic
  7. S2002 E07 · The Victorian Way of Death
  8. S2002 E08 · Battle for Berlin
  9. S2002 E09 · Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad
  10. S2002 E10 · The Myth of Custer's Last Stand
  11. S2002 E11 · Akhenaten and Nefertiti: The Royal Gods of Egypt
  12. S2002 E12 · Murder at Harvard
Season 2003 · 14 episodes
  1. S2003 E01 · White Slaves, Pirate Gold
  2. S2003 E02 · Lost Cities of the Maya
  3. S2003 E03 · Rocket and Its Rivals
  4. S2003 E04 · Ramesses III: Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh
  5. S2003 E05 · 1914: The War Revolution
  6. S2003 Special · Chaplin and Hitler: The Tramp and the Dictator
  7. S2003 E06 · Concorde: A Love Story
  8. S2003 E07 · Zulu: The True Story
  9. S2003 E08 · The Greatest Storm
  10. S2003 E09 · The Last Tomb Raider
  11. S2003 E10 · Mystery of the Missing Ace
  12. S2003 E11 · Britain's Greatest Hoax - Piltdown Man
  13. S2003 E12 · Gallipoli: The First D-Day
  14. S2003 E13 · Through Hell for Hitler
Season 2004 · 11 episodes
  1. S2004 E01 · Britain's X Files
  2. S2004 E02 · The Lost Liner and the Empire's Gold
  3. S2004 E03 · The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari
  4. S2004 E04 · The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship
  5. S2004 E05 · How Mad Was King George?
  6. S2004 E06 · Who Killed Rasputin?
  7. S2004 E07 · The Lost Heroes
  8. S2004 E08 · The Mystery of the Black Death
  9. S2004 E09 · The Black Pharaohs
  10. S2004 E10 · The Secrets of the Mary Rose
  11. S2004 E11 · Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle
Season 2005 · 12 episodes
  1. S2005 E01 · Who Killed Ivan the Terrible?
  2. S2005 E02 · Murder in Rome
  3. S2005 E03 · Who Killed Stalin?
  4. S2005 E04 · Princess Margaret: A Love Story
  5. S2005 E05 · The Killer Wave of 1607
  6. S2005 E06 · Britain's Lost Colosseum
  7. S2005 E07 · The Year without Summer
  8. S2005 E08 · Emperor Hirohito
  9. S2005 E09 · The Gunpowder Plot
  10. S2005 E10 · Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields
  11. S2005 E11 · Children of the Doomed Voyage
  12. S2005 E12 · Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler
Season 2006 · 12 episodes
  1. S2006 E01 · The Bog Bodies
  2. S2006 E02 · Battle of the River Plate
  3. S2006 E03 · The Floating Brothel
  4. S2006 E04 · Unknown Soldiers
  5. S2006 E05 · Missing in Action
  6. S2006 E06 · The Secret History of Genghis Khan
  7. S2006 E07 · The Crusader's Lost Fort
  8. S2006 E08 · Mystery of the Headless Romans
  9. S2006 E09 · Battle for Warsaw
  10. S2006 E10 · The Iron Coffin
  11. S2006 E11 · San Francisco's Great Quake
  12. S2006 E12 · The Princess Spy
Season 2007 · 12 episodes
  1. S2007 E01 · The Hunt for U-864
  2. S2007 E02 · Beatlemania
  3. S2007 E03 · Killer Cloud
  4. S2007 E04 · Hadrian's Wall
  5. S2007 E05 · Zeppelin: The First Blitz
  6. S2007 E06 · The Last Duel
  7. S2007 E07 · Remember the Galahad
  8. S2007 E08 · Hijack
  9. S2007 E09 · The Hidden Children
  10. S2007 E10 · The Wave that Destroyed Atlantis
  11. S2007 E11 · Gladiator Graveyard
  12. S2007 E12 · The People's Coronation
Season 2008 · 11 episodes
  1. S2008 E01 · Viking Voyage
  2. S2008 E02 · Bloody Omaha
  3. S2008 E03 · The Wreckers
  4. S2008 E04 · The Greatest Knight
  5. S2008 E05 · The Pharaoh's Lost City
  6. S2008 E06 · Ten Pound Poms
  7. S2008 E07 · Stonehenge: The Healing Stones
  8. S2008 E08 · Britain's Forgotten Floods
  9. S2008 E09 · The Boxer Rebellion
  10. S2008 E10 · Young Victoria
  11. S2008 E11 · The Last Day of World War One
Season 2009 · 9 episodes
  1. S2009 E01 · Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns
  2. S2009 E02 · QE2 - The Final Voyage
  3. S2009 E03 · The Real Bonnie and Clyde
  4. S2009 E04 · Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend
  5. S2009 E05 · WWI Aces Falling
  6. S2009 E06 · Pyramid - The Last Secret
  7. S2009 E07 · In Shackleton's Footsteps
  8. S2009 E08 · The Prince and the Plotter
  9. S2009 E09 · Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry
Season 2010 · 1 episodes
  1. S2010 E01 · Atlantis: The Evidence
Season 2011 · 4 episodes
  1. S2011 E01 · Code Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
  2. S2011 E02 · The Most Courageous Raid of WWII
  3. S2011 E03 · Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams
  4. S2011 E04 · Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story
Season 2012 · 0 episodes
    Season 2015 · 3 episodes
    1. S2015 E01 · The Mary Rose
    2. S2015 E02 · Cleopatra
    3. S2015 E03 · Roman Britain
    Season 2016 · 7 episodes
    1. S2016 E01 · Stonehenge
    2. S2016 E02 · The Crusades
    3. S2016 E03 · Queen Elizabeth I
    4. S2016 E04 · World War Two
    5. S2016 E05 · Crime and Punishment
    6. S2016 E06 · Women, Sex and Society
    7. S2016 E07 · Russia: A Century of Suspicion
    Season 2017 · 5 episodes
    1. S2017 E01 · British Empire: Heroes and Villains
    2. S2017 E02 · Decoding Disaster
    3. S2017 E03 · The Vikings: Foe or Friend?
    4. S2017 E04 · Dictators and Despots
    5. S2017 E05 · Explorers: Conquest and Calamity

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