Timewatch Season 15

Timewatch Season 15 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it treats its subject with more rigour than the format usually demands. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 8 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Timewatch Season 15 earns its spot. The access Timewatch Season 15 gets is remarkable — and the storytelling does full justice to it. Season 15 of Timewatch includes 13 episodes. It aired from January 1996 to October 1996. Episodes include "Karnak - A Hidden History", "Russia's Secret War", "Drake's Last Voyage". It was aired in 1996. The restraint in Timewatch Season 15 is what makes it trustworthy — it does not need to editorialise to make its point. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Documentary fans who value serious storytelling will find Timewatch Season 15 essential viewing. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. The access the production gets is remarkable, and the storytelling does full justice to it. Worth watching in order, from the beginning.

🎬 Timewatch Season 15 — Episode Guide

Karnak - A Hidden History

1996-01-14

The temple at Karnak in Egypt, founded around 1500 BC, was the greatest religious shrine of the ancient world, taking 2,000 years and the work of 80,000 people to complete. Yet much of what went on behind its walls was kept hidden. With the aid of computer reconstructions and film shot at religious ...

Russia's Secret War

1996-01-21

Some historians have always suspected that Stalin was behind the Korean War, but the Soviets have denied involvement. By obtaining documents from recently opened archives and finding new eyewitnesses, Timewatch has uncovered evidence that Stalin was involved in the war and that over 70,000 members o...

Drake's Last Voyage

1996-01-28

Four hundred years ago today, Sir Francis Drake was buried at sea off the coast of Panama after unsuccessfully trying to recapture past glories. History records that his reputation lay in tatters just eight years after defeating the Spanish Armada. This film retraces his strange final odyssey and fi...

Bad Boys

1996-02-04

A 1973 documentary from the 'Man Alive' series portrayed the lives of six teenage male offenders and their time in Peper Harow, a community in Surrey that promoted a policy of treatment rather than punishment. This film shows the youngsters as they were then and, over two decades later, updates thei...

Voices of Victorian London

1996-02-11

Had documentary film-makers roamed the streets of London in the mid-19th century, they would have encountered an extraordinary range of characters. A rat catcher, a woman who sells dog dirt, and a depressed street clown are brought to life in this programme, capturing their tragic, amusing, and movi...

Special: Haig - The Unknown Soldier

1996-07-03

A special edition of the historical documentary series. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has been lampooned as the worst type of British officer for his command of the army in the First World War. But did he, as accused, send thousands of British to a futile death? On the 80th anniversary of the batt...

Hannibal and Desert Storm

1996-09-10

When General Norman Schwarzkopf planned and executed the Gulf War's "Desert Storm", he looked to the history books for his strategy and found his inspiration in the distant figure of Hannibal. First of a seven-part series.

The History of a Mystery

1996-09-17

Rennes-le-Chateau in southern France is home to one of the century's greatest conspiracy theories. For over a century there have been rumours about treasure buried beneath its streets. This edition of Timewatch sets out to solve the mystery and to separate fact from fiction.

Gold Rush Memories

1996-09-24

A hundred years ago, gold was discovered on a tributary of the Klondike River in north-west Canada, sparking off an extraordinary stampede across the snowbound passes of the Yukon. Will White from Dorset was one of the thousands of amateur prospectors who set out to make their fortune. White's story...

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Stalin's Foreign Slaves

1996-10-01

For half a century the Soviet Union's labour camps made virtual slaves of millions of Russians. Tens of thousands of foreigners were also caught up in this nightmare world. Using newly-released film from the Soviet archives and testimonies of former prisoners, Timewatch traces the history of these s...

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Baiting the Bear

1996-10-08

From 1948-64 Curtis E LeMay and Thomas Power controlled the nuclear bombers and missiles of the USA's Strategic Air Command, the most powerful military force the world has ever seen. But it is now believed that, without the president's knowledge, they built up a huge nuclear arsenal and provoked the...

E12

Remember Aberfan

1996-10-15

Tonight's documentary visits the small mining village in South Wales where, in October 1966, disaster struck when a coal tip above the village collapsed and crashed down the hillside at speed, sweeping everything up which lay in its path. How are the villagers coping with their grief 30 years on? Th...

E13

Cry Hungary

1996-10-22

Forty years ago this week, thousands of Hungarians demonstrated on the streets of Budapest in protest against Soviet occupation of their country and communist oppression. Subsequent Soviet retribution resulted in the deaths of between 3,000 and 5,000 Hungarians. Ex-revolutionaries Bela Liptak, Greg ...

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