Timewatch Season 18

If you want a documentary that respects its subject, Timewatch Season 18 is available on streaming right now. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. Its 7/10 TMDB score, built from 8 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Worth watching in order, from the beginning — the cumulative effect is the point. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Timewatch Season 18 is worth clearing space for. What makes Timewatch Season 18 work is a willingness to sit with complexity instead of resolving it neatly. Season 18 of Timewatch includes 12 episodes. It aired from April 1999 to December 1999. Episodes include "Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax", "The Crossing", "Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs". It was aired in 1999. The restraint in Timewatch Season 18 is what makes it trustworthy — it does not need to editorialise to make its point. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Documentary fans who value serious storytelling will find Timewatch Season 18 essential viewing. 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.

🎬 Timewatch Season 18 — Episode Guide

Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax

1999-04-17

In the thirties Grey Owl tricked the establishment into believing he was the world's first eco-warrior. Archie Belaney was in fact a Briton who had emigrated to Canada at 17 and set out on a mission to fool everyone that he was an American Indian.

The Crossing

1999-04-24

In 1944, American submarines attacked two Japanese boats in the South China Sea, unaware that the vessels were crammed with more than 2,000 Allied PoWs. Among more than 1,000 who survived the attack were British gunner Wilf Barnett and Australian engineer Ray Wheeler. In tonight's programme, the pai...

Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs

1999-05-01

A pistol shot at noon in 1889 signaled the start of the first race between thousands of desperate men and women to stake their claim on government land in north-western Oklahoma. Tonight's programme sifts through archival footage and meets descendants of those battling pioneers who still own the lan...

The Lost Temple of Java

1999-05-08

When English explorer Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles travelled to the heart of the Indonesian island of Central Java in the early 1800s, he found a jungle-covered hill littered with a few statues. Spurred on by stories of a lost temple, his careful excavation uncovered a massive structure in the shape ...

Sleeping with the Enemy

1999-05-22

Marcelle and Elise are two elderly French women who live at opposite ends of the country but shared similar experiences in the Second World War. During the German occupation of France, when their husbands deserted them, they had affairs with German soldiers. In 1944, the women suffered public humili...

Before the Titanic

1999-05-29

In 1909 the passenger liners Florida - carrying Italian immigrants to New York - and Republic - carrying American tourists to Europe - collided on a freezing north Atlantic night. The lives of over 1,500 passengers and crew were held in the balance as the ships became dependent on a new technology -...

The Forgotten Volunteers

1999-06-05

Two-and-a-half million Indians fought for Britain in Second World War campaigns from Egypt to the Far East. Subject to some of the most brutal attacks on the Allies and decorated for bravery, they were forgotten by the British and disowned by India. This film recreates the era and interviews survivo...

Letting the Genie out of the Bottle

1999-06-26

Danish politicians sparked a storm of controversy in 1969 by voting to legalise all forms of pornography, becoming the first country to approve such a move. Why did a traditionally religious nation take this step?

The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War

1999-10-02

The series returns. Captured German spies were turned into double agents and used by MI5 to deceive Hitler during the Second World War. Newly released MI5 documents and interviews with former members of MI5 and its top-secret interrogation centre, Camp 020, tell how the double agents played a cruci...

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Ivan the Terrible

1999-11-06

The title bestowed by history on Russia's first tsar has become synonymous with tyranny and mass bloodshed, his 16th-century reign characterised by conquest and cruelty. Yet many in Russia regard him as a national hero where he is known as the Grozny or 'awesome' tsar. Timewatch examines this man of...

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Tales of the Eiffel Tower

1999-11-20

Loathed by the intellectual establishment after its construction in 1889, the Eiffel Tower is now a cherished symbol of Paris. Tonight's film relates the story of the tower's construction and hears from people whose lives are linked to it.

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A Very British Mutiny

1999-12-04

In September 1943, 191 men from Montgomery's 8th Army - who had helped to drive Rommel's troops out of Africa - refused to take part in the Allied fight for Salerno, Italy. Interviews, reconstructions, and previously classified documents show how errors forced the soldiers into a predicament that ca...

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