Timewatch - 2008-2009
History documentary series
Timewatch - 2008-2009 - Britain's Forgotten Floods
Simon Haslett and Ted Bryant examine the phenomenon of British tsunamis, believing that the Bristol Channel flood of 1607 was in fact a tsunami. Presented by Vanessa Collingridge.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend
Vanessa Collingridge travels in the footsteps of legendary explorer Captain James Cook to uncover the forces that drove him to success - and ultimately to his own death.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - In Shackleton's Footsteps
A group of men follow in the footsteps of their ancestors who, under the leadership of Ernest Shackleton, tried to become the first men to reach the South Pole.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - Pyramid - The Last Secret
Looking at a radical theory from French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin on how the ancient Egyptians raised huge stone blocks to the top of the Great Pyramid.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - QE2 - The Final Voyage
Over 40 years after her launch, the QE2 is being retired. Timewatch joins her on her final voyage and looks back over four glittering decades on the high seas.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns
A mile off the coast of Alderney lies a shipwreck that could rewrite English naval history. Saul David joins a team of divers as they raise the ship's cannons.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - Stonehenge
An investigation into a radical theory that Stonehenge, far from being a place of burial as is commonly assumed, was in fact a place of healing - a kind of Bronze Age Lourdes.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - The Boxer Rebellion
Timewatch exclusively reveals the dramatic true story behind the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, when Imperial troops and Chinese rebels laid siege to the diplomatic quarter in Beijing.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - The Last Day of World War One
Michael Palin reveals the shocking truth that soldiers continued to be killed in battle for many hours after the First World War Armistice had been signed.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - The Real Bonnie and Clyde
With unprecedented access to gang members' memoirs, family archives and recently released police records, Timewatch goes in search of the true story of Bonnie and Clyde.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - WWI Aces Falling
Edward Mannock and James McCudden were two of Britain's great fighter aces in World War One. This is the story of their battle to survive.
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Timewatch - 2008-2009 - Young Victoria
The story of how an unassuming little girl grew to be Queen Victoria, one of the most powerful women in the world, amid battles with her scheming mother, the Duchess of Kent.
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