Timewatch - Season 23 / Year 2004

Season 23 / Year 2004
Episodes

Britain's X Files

The Lost Liner and the Empire's Gold

The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari

The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship

How Mad Was King George?

Who Killed Rasputin?

The Lost Heroes
On 11 September, 1943, a small team of men set out on what official records described as 'the most daring attack of the Second World War'. The secret mission pitted just a handful of Britishvolunteers against an enemy several thousand strong. Crammed into four-man midget submarines, they battled for eleven days across treacherous Arctic seas. Their objective - an impregnable Norwegian fjord holding a foe one thousand four hundred times their size. The battleship Hitler called 'the Beast' - Tirpitz.

The Mystery of the Black Death

The Black Pharaohs
Documentary telling the story of the Black African Kingdom of Kush and its battles with ancient Egypt for supremacy of the Nile Valley. The kings of Kush ruled Egypt for 100 years and became the most powerfulemperors of the ancient world. Though archaeologists were convinced Kush's influence had been underestimated, they had lacked proof until the recent discovery of an inscription in a tomb that tells of an invasion by a Kushite army.

The Secrets of the Mary Rose

Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle
Exploring the crucial battle of Julius Caesar's bloody campaign to conquer Gaul in 52BC, where Caesar fought the Gaul leader Vercingetorix in one of the greatest sieges in history.
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