As of July 2026, Timewatch Season 12 aired in 1993 with 14 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Timewatch Season 12

1993 14 Episodes Documentary ⭐ 7/10

Timewatch Season 12 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it treats its subject with more rigour than the format usually demands. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 8 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Timewatch Season 12 is worth clearing space for. Timewatch Season 12 approaches its subject with the rigour that makes documentary storytelling worth taking seriously. Season 12 of Timewatch includes 14 episodes. It aired from January 1993 to December 1993. Episodes include "Allied to the Mafia", "The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire", "The Stolen Child". It was aired in 1993. Documentary work at this level requires access that is hard to get and storytelling that does justice to it — Timewatch Season 12 has both. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For viewers who want their entertainment to leave them with something, Timewatch Season 12 delivers on both counts. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Getting this level of access rarely happens twice. The kind of documentary that makes you feel informed rather than manipulated.

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🎬 Timewatch Season 12 — Episode Guide

E1
Allied to the Mafia
1993-01-13
The extraordinary story of one of the war's most secret alliances - between the US Naval Intelligence and the Mafia. Denied for 50 years, the pact was in fact begun on the New York waterfront and sealed in the mountains of Sicily. Now the key players speak for the first time about the deal uniting U...
E2
The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire
1993-01-27
Examines the origins of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals startling new evidence of the Irish government's crucial role in the emergence of the Provisional IRA. With the help of interviews with Irish ex-cabinet ministers and former leading members of the Republican movement, it details Du...
E3
The Stolen Child
1993-02-10
During the Second World War the Nazis snatched 200,000 Aryan-looking Polish children from their mothers to replenish the "master race" back in Germany. This film tells the extraordinary story of two cousins who were stolen on the same day, 4-year-old Alojzy and 10-year-old Leon. Alojzy was adopted b...
E4
The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover
1993-02-24
A new profile of the man who was director of the FBI for nearly 50 years. This investigation of Hoover's private life reveals that top gangsters had evidence of his secret, homosexual love life and used it to blackmail him. Tainted by ties to organised crime, Hoover turned a blind eye to the Mafia d...
E5
The Pill: Prescription for Revolution
1993-03-10
Described as "the greatest invention since the wheel" by novelist Angela Carter, the contraceptive pill played a crucial role in the sexual and social revolution of the 60s and 70s. With the help of archive footage from 'Up the Junction', 'Juliet Bravo' and 'Absolutely Fabulous', and interviews with...
E6
Buffalo Bill
1993-03-24
A new look at the legend of William F Cody. From 1883 to 1916, millions of people throughout the world thrilled to the adventures of Buffalo Bill and his Wild West Show, where Indians danced to the rhythms of war and cowboys rode to the rescue. These vivid re-enactments of life on the plains were ac...
E7
Special: Battle of the Bombers
1993-04-07
Fifty years ago Bomber Command launched a massive campaign against Nazi Germany - the Battle of the Ruhr. In this special edition Jonathan Dimbleby explores the military and moral issues posed by a form of warfare which, since the end of the war, has become a matter of great contention. Was Britain'...
E8
On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging
1993-06-02
On 23rd August, 1964, the last person in Britain was hanged. To those involved in it, the process of judicial execution was a 'most secret business', never to be discussed, least of all with the media. But now they have broken their silence. This unique account strips away the mystery and reveals th...
E9
True Story of the Roman Arena
1993-09-15
Julius Caesar courted popular support with spectacular displays of gladiatorial combat. But new archaeological research explains what really went on inside the Roman amphitheatre, and how cruelty and violence became the corner-stone of political and social life. Drawing on contemporary accounts and ...
E10
The Mother of All Battles
1993-09-29
It cost more lives than the British Army lost in the entire Second World War. The Battle of Kursk, south of Moscow, was fought 50 years ago. It was the biggest armoured battle in history. If this is the case, why have few of us ever heard of it? Timewatch investigates.
E11
Hunger Strike: A Hidden History
1993-10-13
On 5 May 1981, Bobby Sands died on hunger strike at the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Nine more prisoners starved themselves to death. Using first-hand testimony, this programme tells the story.
E12
Children of the Third Reich
1993-11-10
In April, a group of 18 people met in a small town halfway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Some were Jewish, the sons and daughters of Holocaust survivors; the rest were German, the children of Nazi war criminals. Producer Catrine Clay interviewed the participants as they faced up to a hitherto unsp...
E13
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993-11-21
Was Lee Harvey Oswald a mentally disturbed gunman acting alone, as the report of the Warren Commission suggested? Was he one of two gunmen, as the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded? Or was he, as he claimed, an innocent fall guy? This Timewatch investigative biography sifts through ...
E14
Chairman Mao the Last Emperor
1993-12-20
Mao Tse-tung ruled China from 1949 until his death in 1976, and this film examines for the first time on television the true extent of his tyranny and the brutality of his regime. His rise to power, and the revolution that swept away the corruption of Chiang Kai-shek, was accompanied with optimism, ...

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