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In 2003, archaeologists set out to solve two ancient murder mysteries. The victims were incredibly rare bog bodies. Timewatch discovers who these men were, when they lived and how they died.
Dramatised documentary telling the gripping story of a deadly duel at sea and one of the best intelligence bluffs of WWII. Commodore Henry Harwood takes on Captain Hans Langsdorff and the pride of the German navy, the Graf Spee, in a battle of courage and wit. One would return home a hero, while the other would lose his reputation, his ship, and ultimately his life.
Three modern day women trace their ancestors and uncover the rags-to-respectability tale of three feisty convict women who bucked the system and became the unlikely founding mothers of modern Australia. Timewatch follows this extraordinary story which starts with The Lady Juliana, the all-female transport ship sent out to Australia, and its cargo of whores, thieves and canny con artists who saved a dying colony and redeemed themselves.
When the remains of two soldiers from World War One were discovered in a field in France in 2003, a unique unit of the American military was called in to identify them. This case proved to be one of their greatest challenges.
Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam War, a unique unit of the American military goes in search of two pilots who were shot down in 1967 while returning from a dangerous bombing mission over Hanoi.
Timewatch examines The Secret History of the Mongols, said to have been written by the Khan's adopted son, to reveal how an illiterate nomad inspired his successors to conquer the largest land empire the world had ever seen.
In October 1178 Baldwin set out to construct a castle which would destabilise Saladin's nascent empire and shift the balance of power in his own favour - the fortress of Jacob's Ford.
His new castle was designed to be a defensive tool as well as an offensive weapon, to severely inhibit Saladin's ability to invade the Latin kingdom while simultaneously undermining the sultan's security in Damascus. If completed, this fortress could thwart Saladin's ambitions for an empire stretching into northern Syria and Mesopotamia.
Timewatch investigates the discovery of 30 decapitated Romans in York. Who were they and what happened? An expert team takes us on this fantastic detective story that goes right to the heart of the Roman world.
The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 saw its people take on the might of the Nazis. Timewatch examines one of the most heroic, and tragic, military operations undertaken by any resistance movement in World War Two.
Documentary about an epic battle which changed the course of the American Civil War and transformed the face of naval warfare forever. It was the world's first combat between the ironclads, The Monitor and The Merrimack, but the technology which made these ships almost invincible also changed the nature of life on the seas. Shut out from daylight, depending on their machine for the air they breathe, the crew of the Monitor immediately feared their own vessel, naming her the iron coffin.
In the early hours of Wednesday 18 April, 1906, America's greatest ever natural disaster struck San Francisco. Told through the words and images of those who were there, Timewatch marks the centenary by revealing the true extent of the catastrophe.
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.
