Timewatch (1982)
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
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- 1 1. My Private War1991-08-17 · 1h 30mThe experiences of six German soldiers who survived the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 are vividly captured through the viewfinders of the amateur film cameras they carried t
- 2 2. Blockade1991-08-31 · 1h 30mWhen the German army surrounded Leningrad in 1941, it was the beginning of a terrible 900 days of isolation for its citizens. On a meager bread ration and with temperatures of minu
- 3 3. LBJ: 1: Beautiful Texas1991-09-15 · 1h 0mFirst of a four-part Timewatch reassessment of the life and work of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who took over as US President following the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963. Part
- 4 4. LBJ: 2: My Fellow Americans1991-09-19 · 1h 0mThe new president reassured a nation stunned by John F Kennedy's assassination and then surprised America with his forceful stand on civil rights and his programme for a Great Soci
- 5 5. LBJ: 3: We Shall Overcome1991-09-22 · 1h 0mJohnson had galvanised America with his appeal for racial justice and his vision for a 'Great Society'. But at the same time, he had promised not to send American troops to Vietnam
- 6 6. LBJ: 4: The Last Believer1991-09-26 · 1h 0mAs Johnson's term of office drew to a close, riots raged in the inner cities, and anti-Vietnam protesters demonstrated all over the country. With the United States as close to anar
- 7 7. A Homecoming1990-07-01 · 50mThe story of Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim, one of the many wealthy Germans whose lands were taken away from them in 1945, and his return to his former home for the first time in
- 8 8. Dunkirk 1940: The 'Great Escape'1990-05-27 · 50mIn May 1940, Hitler's Panzers trapped the armies of Britain and France in a pocket of land around the French port of Dunkirk. Escape seemed impossible, but within nine days more th
- 9 9. All the King's Men: Update1988-05-11 · 1h 0mDuring the summer of 1943, the SOE's largest network in occupied France collapsed, and more than 400 of the French Resistance were arrested. At the centre of this disaster stood th
- 10 10. Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry2009-10-06 · 1h 0mOn 14 November 1940 the German Luftwaffe dropped so many bombs on Coventry that three quarters of the city was destroyed. Such was the devastation, the Germans coined a term to des
- 11 11. From Burning to Body Snatching: The Victorian Way of Death2001-05-04
- 12 12. Edward VII: Prince of Pleasure2010-03-23 · 59mKing Edward VII has always been an enigma. Twentieth-century dynasty builder and sex addict, boorish philistine and civilised cosmopolitan - he was all of these. Using extensive ne
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