Timewatch
Timewatch is a TV show on BBC2. The program has been available since 2023. A total of 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in March 2024.
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Timewatch
Film exploring the extraordinary impact of escapologist Harry Houdini in the early 20th century. Featuring restored archive footage and interviews with historians and illusionists.
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50:00Documentary detailing the killer wave which struck the coast of the Bristol Channel in 1607. Two scientists are increasingly convinced that the wave was actually a tsunami.
Episodes 2023
Documentary drama exploring the last days of Napoleon's life in exile on St Helena, where he fought his final battle with words, presenting himself as the rescuer of France.
An investigative biography of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man at the centre of the political crime of the 20th century, the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
1:00:00Lord Ashdown tells the story of the Cockleshell Heroes, who took part in one of the most audacious commando raids of World War II - to blow up enemy shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
Documentary that re-examines the attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Computer graphics recreate the scene and show how close the plotters came to success.
In January 2007, the MSC Napoli ran aground, spilling its cargo on Branscombe beach in Devon. Author Bella Bathurst discovers the history of 'wrecking'.
59:00Timewatch goes in search of the true story of Bonnie and Clyde, with unprecedented access to gang members' memoirs, family archives and recently released police records.