Timewatch - 2007-2008
History documentary series
Timewatch - 2007-2008 - Bloody Omaha
History series. Researchers and historians are still arguing about why Omaha Beach was the hardest beach to capture in the D-day landings. Presented by Richard Hammond.
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Timewatch - 2007-2008 - Ten Pound Poms
The stories of the one million post-war Britons who paid ten pounds to emigrate to Australia in one of the biggest planned migrations of the twentieth century.
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Timewatch - 2007-2008 - The First Blitz
In the words of those who lived through it, Timewatch tells the forgotten story of the 'First Blitz' - a three-year aerial bombing campaign on Britain, starting in 1915.
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Timewatch - 2007-2008 - The Greatest Knight
History Series. Dr. Saul David investigates the violent medieval melee tournament. Unlike the better known joust, this was a brutal brawl with few rules.
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Timewatch - 2007-2008 - The People's Coronation
Documentary celebrating the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2nd June 1953, as told by the people who watched, shaped and recorded it.
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Timewatch - 2007-2008 - The Pharaoh's Lost City
History series. More than 3000 years ago, the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten marched his people from his capital Thebes to build a new city in the desert.
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Timewatch - 2007-2008 - The Wreckers
History Series. In January, the MSC Napoli ran aground, spilling its cargo on Branscombe beach in Devon. Author Bella Bathurst discovers the history of 'wrecking'.
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Timewatch - 2007-2008 - Viking Voyage
History series. In July this year, 61 people sailed the world's largest reconstructed viking ship from Denmark to Ireland. This film documents their seven week trip.
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