Timewatch - Season 9 / Year 1990
Season 9 / Year 1990
Network
Episodes11
DatesJan 17, 1990 - Dec 12, 1990
Episodes
Year 1990Episode 160 min
An Edge of Conspiracy
Was the last prisoner of Spandau Prison in Berlin really Rudolf Hess, one time deputy to Adolf Hitler, or a doppelganger put in his place by the Nazis before his incredible flight to Britain in 1941? Claims have been made in recent years that the body of the man who died in Spandau Prison in 1987 at the age of 93 bore none of the chest wounds suffered by the real Hess in the First World War. Christopher Andrew talks to wartime witnesses and forensic experts in a personal investigation to establish whether the strange case of Rudolf Hess is a genuine example of the conspiracy theory of history.
Jan 17, 1990
Year 1990Episode 260 min
Napoleon's Last Battle
Timewatch explores the myth of the man who had a vision of a united Europe 175 years ago.
Feb 21, 1990
Year 1990Episode 360 min
Hungary: The End of Silence
The Communist party of Hungary has been forced to surrender its monopoly on truth, but it still controls access to the official archives. Any truths about the past 40 years must, therefore, come from the people themselves: witnesses, participants and victims, whose accounts are being gathered by historians, sociologists and film-makers. The history they recall has already had its effect on the pace of reform.
Mar 21, 1990
Year 1990Episode 460 min
Accounts of a Forgotten Army
In 1945 the German State and its army disappeared. Recently, harrowing tales from Germans who were prisoners in American camps at that time have begun to emerge. A Canadian author has alleged that nearly a million German soldiers died while prisoners of the Allies. His figures are disputed, but did the American authorities, with images of concentration camps fresh in their minds, set out to punish Germans?
Sep 5, 1990
Year 1990Episode 560 min
Helping the Police with Their Enquiries
In the USA it is becoming standard practice for police to call in archaeologists and anthropologists with their skills at excavation and bone analysis to help them unravel murder cases. Now a British police force is looking at what the academics can offer them.
Sep 19, 1990
Year 1990Episode 660 min
The Sipán Affair
In January 1987 a band of grave robbers broke into a royal tomb at Sipan in northern Peru. The treasure they plundered was worth millions. Within months it had been smuggled by way of London to Los Angeles. Timewatch examines the international trade in antiquities, and uncovers a tale of ancient gold and modern greed.
Oct 3, 1990
Year 1990Episode 760 min
I Don't Want to Be Remembered as a Chair
On the shore of Sabbathday Lake in Maine lives a religious community of nine men and women. They are the last practising Shakers - members of a sect once persecuted for its dissenting beliefs and celibate lifestyle. Granted unique access, Timewatch explores their struggle to maintain their religious and historic identity while furniture made by previous generations of Shakers breaks saleroom records around the world.
Oct 17, 1990
Year 1990Episode 860 min
All the King's Jews
Seven hundred years ago tomorrow - on 1 November 1290 - the Jews were expelled from England. Christopher Andrew unfolds the extraordinary story of England's medieval Jews and discovers the English roots of European anti-Semitism.
Oct 31, 1990
Year 1990Episode 960 min
A War Far from Home
In 1914-15 138,000 Indians fought on the Western Front. More than a quarter were casualties. We know what the ordinary soldier felt about the war in France because his letters home were translated and censored. The programme tells the story of those men who fought and died for a country whose language, culture and traditions were alien to them.
Nov 14, 1990
Year 1990Episode 1060 min
One of the Reasons Why
Charles Wheeler tells how the colonial policy of the post-war Labour government led to the start of a 30-year war in Vietnam.
Nov 28, 1990
Year 1990Episode 1160 min
White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave
Dr Livingstone's dream of Africa - 'the white man's grave' - as a land of Christianity and commerce died one night in 1915 on estates planted by the doctor's own heirs. This film tells the extraordinary story of a planter called William Livingstone, a preacher called John Chilembwe and the tragic events that brought them together.
Dec 12, 1990
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