Timeshift Season 1

If you want a documentary that respects its subject, Timeshift Season 1 is available on right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 5 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Rigorous in a way documentary storytelling does not always commit to. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Timeshift Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Timeshift Season 1 approaches its subject with the rigour that makes documentary storytelling worth taking seriously. Season 1 of Timeshift includes 16 episodes. It aired from October 2002 to March 2003. Episodes include "The Grunwick Strike", "The Cannabis Years", "The Writer's Trade". It was aired in 2002. The restraint in Timeshift Season 1 is what makes it trustworthy — it does not need to editorialise to make its point. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Timeshift Season 1 is the kind of documentary you immediately want to recommend to someone else. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. The access the production gets is remarkable, and the storytelling does full justice to it. Worth watching in order, from the beginning.

🎬 Timeshift Season 1 — Episode Guide

The Grunwick Strike

2002-10-10

Documentary recalling the industrial dispute at the Grunwick film processing business in North London in 1976. Featuring film archive from the time and interviews with key players.

The Cannabis Years

2002-10-12

An in-depth examination of how the debate surrounding cannabis has evolved over the past 50 years.

The Writer's Trade

2002-10-19

Examining the changing image of the novelist over the last 50 years.

The Sailing Sixties

2002-11-09

In the mid 1960s Britain went boating mad. This documentary tells the story of how an extraordinary maritime revolution that was kick-started by waterproof glues developed for bomber aircraft led to a whole generation of DIY dinghy builders, and ended in tragedy with the suicide of amateur yachtsman...

Attenborough: The Controller Years

2002-11-16

Charting the time of our favorite presenter at the head of the then struggling and controversial BBC2. Packed chock full of interviews, clips and reminiscences both old and new, including the very tasty Joan Bakewell of the 60s... Sir David Attenborough's reign as controller of BBC TWO, from 1965 to...

he Rise and Fall of the Comedy Straight Man

2002-11-30

Timeshift celebrates the comedy double act's unsung half, with archive footage of Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill and the Monty Python team. Contributors include Syd Little and Barry Cryer. Narrated by Mark Lamarr.

A Shadow Over Europe

2002-12-03

In 1945, two and a half million ethnic Germans were driven from their homes in Czechoslovakia. Thousands died. Now, as the Czech Republic heads for EU membership, Charles Wheeler reports on how the Czechs made the Sudeten German minority pay for Nazi occupation, and why it became a hot political iss...

Whatever Happened to the Working Class?

2003-02-11

This programme in the Time Shift strand explores the history of the current conflict over class

Notting Hill Riots

2003-01-18

Examining the west London riots of August 1958, which were the catalyst for black actMsm in Britain and inspired the annual carnival.

E10

What Have the Germans Done for Us?

2003-02-16

From VW Beetles to Blue Nun and Kraftwerk, a look at Germany's conrtibution to British life

E11

Greenham Common Changed My Life

2003-02-23

The story of the women who occupied the Greenham Common Peace Camp from 1981 to 2000 - what brought them to Greenham, their protests, conflicts with authority and the life they led at the camp. Contributors include Fiona Bruce, Fay Weldon and Joan Ruddock, all of whom visited the site to show their ...

E12

Car Crazy

2003-03-02

The story of the British love of the motor car from the earliest days of mass production in the 1920s to today's MPVs and post-modern Minis told through a succession of classic models from the Austin 7 and Morris Minor to the Ford Cortina.

E13

The Magic Roundabout Story

2003-03-16

Created by a French animator, the show was reinterpreted for Britain, with classic characters like Dougal. It transformed the careers of actor Eric Thompson and animator Ivor Wood and has spawned a movie.

E14

Malcolm Muggeridge: Swimming Against the Stream

2003-03-24

The controversial broadcaster is profiled by Time Shift. How did the son of a Croydon clerk become one of TV's geniune originals? Interviewees include Cormac Murphy O'Connor.

E15

Gurus

2003-03-30

Time Shift examines how the philosophy of the Indian guru has travelled into mainstream British society.

E16

A Brief Interlude

2003-02-16

A short film about "The Interludes" - a series of short films made by the BBC in the 1940s and 1950s to fill in during technical breakdowns and gaps in the schedules. The most famous ones showed a potter's wheel, a cat playing with a ball of wool and a horse-drawn plough.

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