Season 13

episodes

1. 1. Forgotten Heroes 1994-01-12 50 min One In four British merchant seamen died during the Second World War. Life on board ship was dangerous, poorly paid and carried a far higher casualty rate than any of the armed services. Yet their bra...
2. 2. The Real Rasputin 1994-01-26 50 min When Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin was murdered in 1916, rumour and political expediency set to work to paint him as a villain, responsible for the downfall of the Romanov empire, an insane alcoholic ca...
3. 3. Spies in the Sky 1994-02-09 50 min Since 1949, dozens of planes and up to 200 US, British and allied air-crew have been lost in an undeclared aerial espionage war between the western powers and the Soviet Union. Many of them were belie...
4. 4. Presumed Guilty - A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969 1994-03-09 50 min In the decades leading up to reform of the divorce laws in 1969, thousands of women suffered the injustices of a system that treated a failed marriage as a criminal offence. Timewatch tells the storie...
5. 5. Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration 1994-04-06 50 min While the British government publicly operated an open-door policy to immigrants, in private it was terrified about the growing black population. Documents released under the 30-year rule and obtained...
6. 6. Seeds of War 1994-06-26 60 min The question of how the First World War was started has been one of the great controversies of the 20th century. The flashpoint was the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Hapsbu...
7. 7. The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition 1994-11-06 50 min An entire popular mythology has made the Spanish Inquisition a byword for human evil - sadistic, fanatical and omnipotent. But in reality it was none of these things. How did the truth come to be so d...
8. 8. Hitler's Secret Weapons 1994-11-13 50 min In the final few months of the Second World War, Hitler's revolutionary V1 and V2 missiles terrorised southern England. In London alone, 25,000 homes were levelled and 8,000 people killed as this coun...
9. 9. Flames of War 1994-11-20 50 min A film about the horrors of the English Civil War, using letters, diaries and memoirs of ordinary people in 17th-century England. The historical characters of Parliamentarian Lord Saye and Sele, and R...
10. 10. Age of the Sphinx 1994-11-27 50 min The tale of one man's attempt to rewrite the history of the world by redating Egypt's greatest mystery, the Sphinx. Until now, no one can say for sure why, when or by whom the famous statue was carved...
11. 11. Khrushchev - The Peasant Premier 1994-12-04 60 min In the centenary year of his birth, and using previously unseen home movies, this film explores the contradictions of the Ukrainian peasant's son. He contributed to the crises in Berlin and Cuba, yet...
12. 12. Memo from Machiavelli: How to Succeed in British Politics 1994-12-11 50 min Niccolo Machiavelli's name is synonymous with political intrigue, but recent analysis of his work suggests that he was a political pragmatist whose best-known book 'The Prince' is as relevant today as...
13. 13. Typhoid Mary 1994-12-18 55 min Story of the woman judged to be such a danger to public health that she was incarcerated by the city of New York for 23 years. In the winter of 1906, Dr George Soper was summoned to Oyster Bay, Long I...
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