Timewatch - Season 15 / Year 1996

Timewatch - Season 15 / Year 1996

Season 15 / Year 1996

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DatesJan 14, 1996 - Oct 22, 1996
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Karnak - A Hidden History
Year 1996Episode 160 min

Karnak - A Hidden History

The temple at Karnak in Egypt, founded around 1500 BC, was the greatest religious shrine of the ancient world, taking 2,000 years and the work of 80,000 people to complete. Yet much of what went on behind its walls was kept hidden. With the aid of computer reconstructions and film shot at religious sites in Egypt, Timewatch reveals its fascinating hidden history.
Jan 14, 1996
Russia's Secret War
Year 1996Episode 260 min

Russia's Secret War

Some historians have always suspected that Stalin was behind the Korean War, but the Soviets have denied involvement. By obtaining documents from recently opened archives and finding new eyewitnesses, Timewatch has uncovered evidence that Stalin was involved in the war and that over 70,000 members of the Soviet military took part.
Jan 21, 1996
Drake's Last Voyage
Year 1996Episode 360 min

Drake's Last Voyage

Four hundred years ago today, Sir Francis Drake was buried at sea off the coast of Panama after unsuccessfully trying to recapture past glories. History records that his reputation lay in tatters just eight years after defeating the Spanish Armada. This film retraces his strange final odyssey and finds that, contrary to prevailing belief, it was a shrewdly planned venture thwarted by ill fortune. The truth lies with the Guayou Indians of Colombia, in the letters of the men who sailed with him, and with those who tried to stop him.
Jan 28, 1996
Bad Boys
Year 1996Episode 460 min

Bad Boys

A 1973 documentary from the 'Man Alive' series portrayed the lives of six teenage male offenders and their time in Peper Harow, a community in Surrey that promoted a policy of treatment rather than punishment. This film shows the youngsters as they were then and, over two decades later, updates their stories. Was the radical Peper Harow rehabilitation experiment a success? Have the men managed to break the cycle of violence that was such a part of their lives?
Feb 4, 1996
Voices of Victorian London
Year 1996Episode 560 min

Voices of Victorian London

Had documentary film-makers roamed the streets of London in the mid-19th century, they would have encountered an extraordinary range of characters. A rat catcher, a woman who sells dog dirt, and a depressed street clown are brought to life in this programme, capturing their tragic, amusing, and moving stories. Based on transcribed interviews with a wide range of working people as part of a survey of London labour and life by Henry Mayhew, the Victorian journalist and founder of Punch magazine.
Feb 11, 1996
Haig: The Unknown Soldier
Year 1996Episode 660 min

Haig: The Unknown Soldier

A special edition of the historical documentary series. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has been lampooned as the worst type of British officer for his command of the army in the First World War. But did he, as accused, send thousands of British to a futile death? On the 80th anniversary of the battle of the Somme, Timewatch explores a newly emerging historical debate.
Jul 3, 1996
Hannibal and Desert Storm
Year 1996Episode 760 min

Hannibal and Desert Storm

When General Norman Schwarzkopf planned and executed the Gulf War's "Desert Storm", he looked to the history books for his strategy and found his inspiration in the distant figure of Hannibal. First of a seven-part series.
Sep 10, 1996
The History of a Mystery
Year 1996Episode 860 min

The History of a Mystery

Rennes-le-Chateau in southern France is home to one of the century's greatest conspiracy theories. For over a century there have been rumours about treasure buried beneath its streets. This edition of Timewatch sets out to solve the mystery and to separate fact from fiction.
Sep 17, 1996
Gold Rush Memories
Year 1996Episode 960 min

Gold Rush Memories

Documentary following the story of Will White, an amateur prospector who joined the stampede to the Klondike River for the Gold Rush.

Sep 24, 1996
Stalin's Foreign Slaves
Year 1996Episode 1060 min

Stalin's Foreign Slaves

For half a century the Soviet Union's labour camps made virtual slaves of millions of Russians. Tens of thousands of foreigners were also caught up in this nightmare world. Using newly-released film from the Soviet archives and testimonies of former prisoners, Timewatch traces the history of these slave-labour camps.
Oct 1, 1996
Baiting the Bear
Year 1996Episode 1160 min

Baiting the Bear

From 1948-64 Curtis E LeMay and Thomas Power controlled the nuclear bombers and missiles of the USA's Strategic Air Command, the most powerful military force the world has ever seen. But it is now believed that, without the president's knowledge, they built up a huge nuclear arsenal and provoked the Kremlin. Timewatch has uncovered a secret plan that risked a Third World War in the sixties.
Oct 8, 1996
Remember Aberfan
Year 1996Episode 1260 min

Remember Aberfan

Tonight's documentary visits the small mining village in South Wales where, in October 1966, disaster struck when a coal tip above the village collapsed and crashed down the hillside at speed, sweeping everything up which lay in its path. How are the villagers coping with their grief 30 years on? This respectful documentary commemorates the disaster and features archive footage alongside contemporary interviews with some of the survivors and the bereaved parents.
Oct 15, 1996
Cry Hungary
Year 1996Episode 1360 min

Cry Hungary

Forty years ago this week, thousands of Hungarians demonstrated on the streets of Budapest in protest against Soviet occupation of their country and communist oppression. Subsequent Soviet retribution resulted in the deaths of between 3,000 and 5,000 Hungarians. Ex-revolutionaries Bela Liptak, Greg Pongratz, and Imre Mecs reunite to watch Jeremy Bennett's 1986 film 'Cry Hungary' and discuss how far the ideals of the revolution were achieved.
Oct 22, 1996

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