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. Who Killed Ivan the Terrible?2005-01-29 · 50mCriminologist David Wilson conducts an investigation into the death of Russia's first dictator, who ruled the country during the 16th century. Beginning with rumours that Ivan was
- 2 2. Murder in Rome2005-03-04 · 50mRome, 81 BC: Sextus Roscius is accused of patricide. If found guilty, he faces a brutal execution. Defending him is a young lawyer - Cicero. Using the actual trial record, this dra
- 3 3. Who Killed Stalin?2005-03-11 · 50mWhen Stalin's death from a brain hemorrhage was announced in March 1953, the true details surrounding his death were immediately suppressed: the Soviet Communist Party's power woul
- 4 4. Princess Margaret: A Love Story2005-03-25 · 50mHer romance with a dashing fighter pilot was the stuff of fairy tales - yet the prospect of marriage between the Queen's sister and Group Captain Peter Townsend, a divorced commone
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5. The Killer Wave of 16072005-04-01 · 50mIt's 9am on 20 January 1607: a 12ft-high wall of water devastates the counties of the Bristol Channel, killing in the region of 2,000. The catastrophe altered the coastline for eve
- 6 6. Britain's Lost Colosseum2005-05-20 · 50mA love of bloody spectacle led the Romans to build amphitheatres all over their Empire. In Britain there were at least 25, the largest in Chester where archaeologists Tony Wilmott
- 7 7. The Year Without Summer2005-05-27 · 50mMount Tambora in eastern Indonesia unleashed the biggest volcanic blast ever in April 1815, a cataclysmic event that could have provoked a change in climate around the world. Thous
- 8 8. The Gunpowder Plot2005-11-04 · 50mIn 1605 a group of angry young Catholic men decided to wipe out the monarchy and government by blowing up the Houses of Parliament. To mark the 400th anniversary of the infamous Gu
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9. Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields2005-11-11 · 50mA focus on the man responsible for the deaths of almost two million Cambodians. Dramatic reconstructions, the testimony of acquaintances, and the words of the Khmer Rouge leader hi
- 10 10. Children of the Doomed Voyage2005-11-18 · 50mOn 17 September 1940 a German U-boat attacked the evacuee ship SS Benares en route to Canada, killing 258 of the 401 on board, including 80 of 100 child passengers. Sixty-five year
- 11 11. Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler2005-11-25 · 50mPsychological analysis of the biggest madman of the 20th century. How in 1943, a team of Harvard psychologists arrived at startlingly accurate conclusions from a profile they drew
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