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About Timewatch
A series of historical documentaries originally broadcast on BBC Two, but more recently airing on BBC Four.
Timewatch episode schedule
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Aired · 298
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 1, 2017 | S2017·E5 | Explorers: Conquest and Calamity |
| July 25, 2017 | S2017·E4 | Dictators and Despots |
| July 18, 2017 | S2017·E3 | The Vikings: Foe or Friend? |
| July 13, 2017 | S2017·E2 | Decoding Disaster |
| February 1, 2017 | S2017·E1 | British Empire: Heroes and Villains |
| November 22, 2016 | S2016·E7 | Russia: A Century of Suspicion |
| November 15, 2016 | S2016·E6 | Women, Sex and Society |
| November 8, 2016 | S2016·E5 | Crime and Punishment |
| February 25, 2016 | S2016·E4 | World War Two |
| February 10, 2016 | S2016·E3 | Queen Elizabeth I |
| February 3, 2016 | S2016·E2 | The Crusades |
| January 27, 2016 | S2016·E1 | Stonehenge |
| February 17, 2015 | S2015·E3 | Roman Britain |
| February 10, 2015 | S2015·E2 | Cleopatra |
| February 3, 2015 | S2015·E1 | The Mary Rose |
| November 15, 2011 | S2011·E4 | Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story |
| November 8, 2011 | S2011·E3 | Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams |
| November 1, 2011 | S2011·E2 | The Most Courageous Raid of WWII |
| October 25, 2011 | S2011·E1 | Code Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes |
| June 10, 2010 | S2010·E1 | Atlantis: The Evidence |
| October 6, 2009 | S2009·E9 | Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry |
| July 4, 2009 | S2009·E8 | The Prince and the Plotter |
| April 4, 2009 | S2009·E7 | In Shackleton's Footsteps |
| March 28, 2009 | S2009·E6 | Pyramid - The Last Secret |
| March 21, 2009 | S2009·E5 | WWI Aces Falling |
| March 14, 2009 | S2009·E4 | Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend |
| March 7, 2009 | S2009·E3 | The Real Bonnie and Clyde |
| February 28, 2009 | S2009·E2 | QE2 - The Final Voyage |
| February 21, 2009 | S2009·E1 | Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns |
| November 1, 2008 | S2008·E11 | The Last Day of World War One |
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| October 18, 2008 | S2008·E10 | Young Victoria |
| October 11, 2008 | S2008·E9 | The Boxer Rebellion |
| October 4, 2008 | S2008·E8 | Britain's Forgotten Floods |
| September 27, 2008 | S2008·E7 | Stonehenge: The Healing Stones |
| February 2, 2008 | S2008·E6 | Ten Pound Poms |
| January 26, 2008 | S2008·E5 | The Pharaoh's Lost City |
| January 19, 2008 | S2008·E4 | The Greatest Knight |
| January 12, 2008 | S2008·E3 | The Wreckers |
| January 6, 2008 | S2008·E2 | Bloody Omaha |
| January 5, 2008 | S2008·E1 | Viking Voyage |
| May 18, 2007 | S2007·E12 | The People's Coronation |
| May 11, 2007 | S2007·E11 | Gladiator Graveyard |
| April 20, 2007 | S2007·E10 | The Wave that Destroyed Atlantis |
| April 16, 2007 | S2007·E9 | The Hidden Children |
| April 6, 2007 | S2007·E8 | Hijack |
| April 2, 2007 | S2007·E7 | Remember the Galahad |
| February 9, 2007 | S2007·E6 | The Last Duel |
| February 2, 2007 | S2007·E5 | Zeppelin: The First Blitz |
| January 26, 2007 | S2007·E4 | Hadrian's Wall |
| January 19, 2007 | S2007·E3 | Killer Cloud |
| January 12, 2007 | S2007·E2 | Beatlemania |
| January 5, 2007 | S2007·E1 | The Hunt for U-864 |
| May 19, 2006 | S2006·E12 | The Princess Spy |
| May 12, 2006 | S2006·E11 | San Francisco's Great Quake |
| May 5, 2006 | S2006·E10 | The Iron Coffin |
| April 28, 2006 | S2006·E9 | Battle for Warsaw |
| April 21, 2006 | S2006·E8 | Mystery of the Headless Romans |
| April 14, 2006 | S2006·E7 | The Crusader's Lost Fort |
| March 10, 2006 | S2006·E6 | The Secret History of Genghis Khan |
| March 3, 2006 | S2006·E5 | Missing in Action |
| February 24, 2006 | S2006·E4 | Unknown Soldiers |
| February 3, 2006 | S2006·E3 | The Floating Brothel |
| January 27, 2006 | S2006·E2 | Battle of the River Plate |
| January 20, 2006 | S2006·E1 | The Bog Bodies |
| November 25, 2005 | S2005·E12 | Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler |
| November 18, 2005 | S2005·E11 | Children of the Doomed Voyage |
| November 11, 2005 | S2005·E10 | Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields |
| November 4, 2005 | S2005·E9 | The Gunpowder Plot |
| July 1, 2005 | S2005·E8 | Emperor Hirohito |
| May 27, 2005 | S2005·E7 | The Year without Summer |
| May 20, 2005 | S2005·E6 | Britain's Lost Colosseum |
| April 2, 2005 | S2005·E5 | The Killer Wave of 1607 |
| March 26, 2005 | S2005·E4 | Princess Margaret: A Love Story |
| March 11, 2005 | S2005·E3 | Who Killed Stalin? |
| March 4, 2005 | S2005·E2 | Murder in Rome |
| January 29, 2005 | S2005·E1 | Who Killed Ivan the Terrible? |
| November 5, 2004 | S2004·E11 | Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle |
| October 29, 2004 | S2004·E10 | The Secrets of the Mary Rose |
| October 22, 2004 | S2004·E9 | The Black Pharaohs |
| October 15, 2004 | S2004·E8 | The Mystery of the Black Death |
| October 8, 2004 | S2004·E7 | The Lost Heroes |
| October 1, 2004 | S2004·E6 | Who Killed Rasputin? |
| February 6, 2004 | S2004·E5 | How Mad Was King George? |
| January 30, 2004 | S2004·E4 | The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship |
| January 23, 2004 | S2004·E3 | The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari |
| January 16, 2004 | S2004·E2 | The Lost Liner and the Empire's Gold |
| January 9, 2004 | S2004·E1 | Britain's X Files |
| December 5, 2003 | S2003·E13 | Through Hell for Hitler |
| November 28, 2003 | S2003·E12 | Gallipoli: The First D-Day |
| November 21, 2003 | S2003·E11 | Britain's Greatest Hoax - Piltdown Man |
| November 14, 2003 | S2003·E10 | Mystery of the Missing Ace |
| November 7, 2003 | S2003·E9 | The Last Tomb Raider |
| October 31, 2003 | S2003·E8 | The Greatest Storm |
| October 24, 2003 | S2003·E7 | Zulu: The True Story |
| June 29, 2003 | S2003·E6 | Concorde: A Love Story |
| February 7, 2003 | S2003·E5 | 1914: The War Revolution |
| January 31, 2003 | S2003·E4 | Ramesses III: Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh |
| January 24, 2003 | S2003·E3 | Rocket and Its Rivals |
| January 17, 2003 | S2003·E2 | Lost Cities of the Maya |
| January 10, 2003 | S2003·E1 | White Slaves, Pirate Gold |
| December 14, 2002 | S2002·E12 | Murder at Harvard |
| September 6, 2002 | S2002·E11 | Akhenaten and Nefertiti: The Royal Gods of Egypt |
| August 16, 2002 | S2002·E10 | The Myth of Custer's Last Stand |
| August 9, 2002 | S2002·E9 | Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad |
| May 10, 2002 | S2002·E8 | Battle for Berlin |
| May 4, 2002 | S2002·E7 | The Victorian Way of Death |
| April 19, 2002 | S2002·E6 | Myths of the Titanic |
| February 8, 2002 | S2002·E5 | Jubilee Day |
| February 1, 2002 | S2002·E4 | Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea |
| January 18, 2002 | S2002·E3 | Death of the Battleship |
| January 11, 2002 | S2002·E2 | Mystery of the Iron Bridge |
| January 4, 2002 | S2002·E1 | The Making of Adolf Hitler |
| August 23, 2001 | S2001·E12 | Bombing Germany |
| June 8, 2001 | S2001·E11 | Roman Soldiers to Be |
| June 1, 2001 | S2001·E10 | Scharnhorst |
| May 25, 2001 | S2001·E9 | Strangeways Revisited |
| May 18, 2001 | S2001·E8 | Debutantes |
| May 11, 2001 | S2001·E7 | The Last Surrender |
| February 16, 2001 | S2001·E6 | Hitler, Churchill and the Paratroopers |
| February 9, 2001 | S2001·E5 | Public Enemy Number One |
| February 2, 2001 | S2001·E4 | Nero's Golden House |
| January 26, 2001 | S2001·E3 | The King's Servant |
| January 19, 2001 | S2001·E2 | Himmler, Hitler and the End of the Reich |
| January 12, 2001 | S2001·E1 | The Empire State Story |
| April 29, 2000 | S2000·E2 | Brazil: An Inconvenient History |
| January 8, 2000 | S2000·E1 | The Germans We Kept |
| December 4, 1999 | S1999·E12 | A Very British Mutiny |
| November 20, 1999 | S1999·E11 | Tales of the Eiffel Tower |
| November 6, 1999 | S1999·E10 | Ivan the Terrible |
| October 2, 1999 | S1999·E9 | The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War |
| June 26, 1999 | S1999·E8 | Letting the Genie Out of the Bottle |
| June 5, 1999 | S1999·E7 | The Forgotten Volunteers |
| May 29, 1999 | S1999·E6 | Before the Titanic |
| May 22, 1999 | S1999·E5 | Sleeping with the Enemy |
| May 8, 1999 | S1999·E4 | The Lost Temple of Java |
| May 1, 1999 | S1999·E3 | Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs |
| April 24, 1999 | S1999·E2 | The Crossing |
| April 17, 1999 | S1999·E1 | Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax |
| November 3, 1998 | S1998·E12 | An American Firefight |
| October 27, 1998 | S1998·E11 | The British in India |
| October 27, 1998 | S1998·E10 | Banking with Hitler |
| October 13, 1998 | S1998·E9 | The Pilgrim Obsession |
| October 6, 1998 | S1998·E8 | Lloyd George's War |
| September 29, 1998 | S1998·E7 | Sex and War |
| May 12, 1998 | S1998·E6 | Aborigine - A Collision of Conscience |
| May 5, 1998 | S1998·E5 | Las Vegas and the Mormons |
| April 28, 1998 | S1998·E4 | The Roman Way of War |
| April 21, 1998 | S1998·E3 | The Oklahoma Outlaw |
| April 14, 1998 | S1998·E2 | Grammar School Boys |
| April 7, 1998 | S1998·E1 | Hitler and the Invasion of Britain |
| December 16, 1997 | S1997·E15 | In Search of Cleopatra |
| December 9, 1997 | S1997·E14 | Remember the Ugandan Asians |
| December 2, 1997 | S1997·E13 | Lenin's Secret Files |
| November 25, 1997 | S1997·E12 | The African Trade |
| November 18, 1997 | S1997·E11 | The Gentlemen Spies |
| November 11, 1997 | S1997·E10 | Alison: A Personal History |
| November 4, 1997 | S1997·E9 | Lords of the Maya |
| October 28, 1997 | S1997·E8 | The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai |
| April 18, 1997 | S1997·E7 | Back to the Iron Age |
| April 1, 1997 | S1997·E6 | Forgotten Allies |
| March 25, 1997 | S1997·E5 | Birth Story |
| March 18, 1997 | S1997·E4 | The Boer War: The First Media War |
| March 11, 1997 | S1997·E3 | Secret Memories |
| March 4, 1997 | S1997·E2 | Before Columbus |
| February 25, 1997 | S1997·E1 | Love Story |
| October 22, 1996 | S1996·E13 | Cry Hungary |
| October 15, 1996 | S1996·E12 | Remember Aberfan |
| October 8, 1996 | S1996·E11 | Baiting the Bear |
| October 1, 1996 | S1996·E10 | Stalin's Foreign Slaves |
| September 24, 1996 | S1996·E9 | Gold Rush Memories |
| September 17, 1996 | S1996·E8 | The History of a Mystery |
| September 10, 1996 | S1996·E7 | Hannibal and Desert Storm |
| July 3, 1996 | S1996·E6 | Haig: The Unknown Soldier |
| February 11, 1996 | S1996·E5 | Voices of Victorian London |
| February 4, 1996 | S1996·E4 | Bad Boys |
| January 28, 1996 | S1996·E3 | Drake's Last Voyage |
| January 21, 1996 | S1996·E2 | Russia's Secret War |
| January 14, 1996 | S1996·E1 | Karnak - A Hidden History |
| November 12, 1995 | S1995·E12 | Tanks - Wonder Weapon of WWI? |
| November 5, 1995 | S1995·E11 | The Projection Racket |
| October 29, 1995 | S1995·E10 | Quiet Revolution |
| October 22, 1995 | S1995·E9 | Kamikaze |
| October 15, 1995 | S1995·E8 | Pocahontas: Her True Story |
| October 8, 1995 | S1995·E7 | Evidence of Vikings |
| July 23, 1995 | S1995·E6 | Biafra - Fighting a War without Guns |
| April 30, 1995 | S1995·E5 | Hitler's Death: The Final Report |
| April 15, 1995 | S1995·E4 | The Life and Lives of Oscar Wilde |
| March 30, 1995 | S1995·E3 | The BBC in Vietnam |
| March 23, 1995 | S1995·E2 | Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam |
| January 11, 1995 | S1995·E1 | Out of the Ashes |
| December 18, 1994 | S1994·E13 | Typhoid Mary |
| December 11, 1994 | S1994·E12 | Memo from Machiavelli – How to Succeed in British Politics |
| December 4, 1994 | S1994·E11 | Krushchev – The Peasant Premier |
| November 27, 1994 | S1994·E10 | Age of the Sphinx |
| November 20, 1994 | S1994·E9 | Flames of War |
| November 13, 1994 | S1994·E8 | Hitler's Secret Weapons |
| November 6, 1994 | S1994·E7 | The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition |
| October 26, 1994 | S1994·E2 | The Real Rasputin |
| June 26, 1994 | S1994·E6 | Seeds of War |
| April 6, 1994 | S1994·E5 | Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration |
| March 9, 1994 | S1994·E4 | Presumed Guilty – A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969 |
| February 9, 1994 | S1994·E3 | Spies in the Sky |
| January 12, 1994 | S1994·E1 | Forgotten Heroes - Merchant Seamen at War |
| December 20, 1993 | S1993·E14 | Chairman Mao - The Last Emperor |
| November 21, 1993 | S1993·E13 | The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald |
| November 10, 1993 | S1993·E12 | Children of the Third Reich |
| October 13, 1993 | S1993·E11 | Hunger Strike: A Hidden History |
| September 29, 1993 | S1993·E10 | The Mother of All Battles |
| September 15, 1993 | S1993·E9 | True Story of the Roman Arena |
| June 2, 1993 | S1993·E8 | On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging |
| April 7, 1993 | S1993·E7 | Battle of the Bombers |
| March 24, 1993 | S1993·E6 | Buffalo Bill |
| March 10, 1993 | S1993·E5 | The Pill: Prescription for Revolution |
| February 24, 1993 | S1993·E4 | The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover |
| February 10, 1993 | S1993·E3 | The Stolen Child |
| January 27, 1993 | S1993·E2 | The Sparks that Lit the Bonfire |
| January 13, 1993 | S1993·E1 | Allied to the Mafia |
| October 28, 1992 | S1992·E20 | Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness |
| October 21, 1992 | S1992·E19 | Sold Down the River |
| October 14, 1992 | S1992·E18 | Cuban Missile Crisis: Eyeball to Eyeball |
| October 7, 1992 | S1992·E17 | Cuban Missile Crisis: Defying Uncle Sam |
| September 23, 1992 | S1992·E15 | A Diplomat in Japan: A Clash of Cultures |
| September 20, 1992 | S1992·E16 | A Diplomat in Japan: Witness to a Revolution |
| September 16, 1992 | S1992·E14 | The Un-Americans: To Hell with Truth |
| September 9, 1992 | S1992·E13 | The Un-Americans: No Place to Hide |
| September 2, 1992 | S1992·E12 | The Un-Americans: Five Minutes to Midnight |
| June 24, 1992 | S1992·E11 | Gladio: The Foot Soldiers |
| June 17, 1992 | S1992·E10 | Gladio: The Puppeteers |
| June 10, 1992 | S1992·E9 | Gladio: The Ringmasters |
| June 3, 1992 | S1992·E8 | SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich |
…and 68 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.