Timewatch - Season 25 / Year 2006

Timewatch - Season 25 / Year 2006

Season 25 / Year 2006

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Episodes12
DatesJan 20, 2006 - May 19, 2006
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Episodes

The Bog Bodies
Year 2006Episode 160 min

The Bog Bodies

Two crimes committed many years in the past are examined by a team of scientists. The victims are Bog Bodies - Celts perfectly preserved by the peat bog in which they had been buried. Timewatch was grantedexclusive access to film the entire investigation, and this compelling film follows the archaeologists as they establish who these men were, when they lived - and how they died.

Jan 20, 2006
Battle of the River Plate
Year 2006Episode 260 min

Battle of the River Plate

A deadly duel at sea - featuring one of the Second World War's great tactical bluffs - is the focus of this dramatised documentary. Commodore Henry Harwood takes on Captain Hans Langsdorff and the pride of the German navy, the Graf Spee. 2/6.
Jan 27, 2006
The Floating Brothel
Year 2006Episode 360 min

The Floating Brothel

In 1789 the first all-female transport ship set sail from Britain for the struggling colony at Sydney Cove. Three of today's high-flying Australian women trace their ancestry back to the passenger list and find three feisty girls from the Georgian underworld. 3/6.
Feb 3, 2006
Unknown Soldiers
Year 2006Episode 460 min

Unknown Soldiers

France 2003: A unit of the American military that aims to bring home all missing US servicemen sifts through the remains of two First World War soldiers. 4/6.
Feb 24, 2006
Missing in Action
Year 2006Episode 560 min

Missing in Action

Over 1,300 American pilots were declared missing in action as a result of the Vietnam War. Nearly 40 years on, a special unit of the American military (JPAC) revisits the site where the fighter jet of Major Herman Knapp and his co-pilot Lt David Austin was shot down while returning from a bombing raid over Hanoi. With only 30 days allowed to excavate the site, can JPAC find the servicemen's remains and close the case? 5/6.
Mar 3, 2006
The Secret History of Genghis Khan
Year 2006Episode 660 min

The Secret History of Genghis Khan

Documentary looking at the Secret History of the Mongols, said to have been written by Genghis Khan's adopted son, which reveals a very different man to the brutal butcher of Western legend. Not just awomaniser, but a devoted husband. Not just a warrior, but a politician. Not just a conqueror, but a legislator. A man who wanted the lessons he had learnt - good and bad - to be passed onto his successors. Within its pages lies the inside story of how an illiterate nomad inspired his successors to conquer the largest land empire the world has ever seen.

Mar 10, 2006
The Crusader's Lost Fort
Year 2006Episode 760 min

The Crusader's Lost Fort

1179: The Crusaders build a new and supposedly impregnable fortress at a crossing on the Jordan called Jacob's Ford. Within a year of its completion, the castle, which was protected by 1500 Knights Templar, was taken in a siege lasting just five days. Dr Thomas Asbridge is trying to solve the mystery of why the stronghold fell so quickly. 1/6.
Apr 14, 2006
Mystery of the Headless Romans
Year 2006Episode 860 min

Mystery of the Headless Romans

When 30 decapitated Romans were found buried in York in February 2005, archaeologists were baffled by their presence. Had these bodies been beheaded because of Roman superstitions about ghosts or were they victims of a brutal act of revenge or war? Timewatch follows the investigation that has since taken place and shows how experts came to the conclusion that these men were caught in a bloody power feud to succeed Emperor Septimius Severus, who died in the city in AD 211. 2/6.
Apr 21, 2006
Battle for Warsaw
Year 2006Episode 960 min

Battle for Warsaw

For two months in 1944, the men, women and children of Warsaw faced incredible odds in a bid to liberate the Polish city from Nazi occupation. They did so alone, even though Soviet forces arrived on the scene at the height of the conflict. Told through the personal accounts of those who took part, Timewatch investigates why the Red Army failed to join the uprising as it tells the little-known story behind one of history's greatest betrayals. 3/6.
Apr 28, 2006
The Iron Coffin
Year 2006Episode 1060 min

The Iron Coffin

The first ever exchange of fire between iron-clad ships took place on 9 March 1862 and changed the course of the American Civil War. But what was it like to serve inside these primitive battleships, one of which was dubbed "the iron coffin" by its fearful 19th-century crew? 4/6.
May 5, 2006
San Francisco's Great Quake
Year 2006Episode 1160 min

San Francisco's Great Quake

One of America's worst natural disasters struck in the early hours of 18 April 1906. This film marks the centenary of the San Francisco earthquake by revealing the true scale of the catastrophe through the words and images of those who survived. 5/6.
May 12, 2006
The Princess Spy
Year 2006Episode 1260 min

The Princess Spy

Documentary about Noor Inayat Khan, who in 1943 became the first woman wireless operator to be sent into war-torn France. It was the most dangerous job in SOE, Churchill's secret army, and she was not expected to survive long.

The daughter of an Indian mystic and a writer of children's stories in pre-war Paris, she was a curious choice for a secret agent, but became London's vital link with Nazi-occupied Paris. Betrayed, captured and tortured, Noor revealed nothing before she was executed. She was awarded the George Cross for her bravery.

May 19, 2006

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