Timewatch Season 22

Right now you can watch Timewatch Season 22 on streaming — and it earns the access it was given. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. 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 22 is worth clearing space for. The access Timewatch Season 22 gets is remarkable — and the storytelling does full justice to it. Season 22 of Timewatch includes 13 episodes. It aired from January 2003 to December 2003. Episodes include "White Slaves, Pirate Gold", "Lost Cities of the Maya", "Rocket and Its Rivals". It was aired in 2003. Timewatch Season 22 lets its subjects speak for themselves rather than shaping them into a predetermined narrative. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Timewatch Season 22 is the kind of documentary you immediately want to recommend to someone else. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. The subject drives every choice here, not the other way around. The kind of production you finish and immediately want to read more about.

🎬 Timewatch Season 22 — Episode Guide

White Slaves, Pirate Gold

2003-01-10

A shipwreck off Devon uncovered much more than a haul of Islamic coins and jewellery - it also revealed a forgotten time when coastal Europe lived in terror of the "Barbary pirates". The story behind the ship, and why over a million Europeans vanished into North Africa in the 250 years from 1570. F...

Lost Cities of the Maya

2003-01-17

For over 1,000 years, Maya kings ruled Central America's jungles. While Europe was just emerging from the Dark Ages, they were great architects, artists, and mathematicians. Then, at the height of their power, they abandoned their cities and vanished. Follow archaeologist Kathryn Reese-Taylor on an ...

Rocket and Its Rivals

2003-01-24

Stephenson's Rocket is famous because of the contest it won in 1829. Few realise it triumphed by default when its two rivals had to withdraw because of faulty parts. Using replica engines, Timewatch gives the rivals a second opportunity to beat The Rocket in a full-scale restaging of the Rainhill Tr...

Ramesses III - Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh

2003-01-31

Ramesses III is remembered as Egypt's last great pharaoh, but the truth was very different. With the help of papyrus that was never intended to survive, the dark workings of a pharaoh in crisis are revealed. It's a story of conspiracy, vengeance, and murder that belies the positive image of his reig...

1914: The War Revolution

2003-02-07

The first action involving the British in the First World War was a cavalry skirmish - German lances against British swords. Within eight weeks, it was transformed into a bloody trench stalemate that would last for three years. Why did the whole nature of warfare change so dramatically during this o...

Concorde: A Love Story

2003-10-19

Due to be taken out of service on Friday, the world's only supersonic passenger plane is finally brought to ground. But our love affair with Concorde looks set to endure for years to come. Celebrity frequent fliers, engineers, pilots, and stewardesses tell the story of an icon.

Zulu: The True Story

2003-10-24

The Battle of Rorke's Drift is routinely presented as a significant British victory of the Zulu wars. Yet on the same day, at the nearby Battle of Isandlwana, heavily equipped British troops were crushed by Zulu warriors bearing little more than spears. Battle re-enactments shot on location and dram...

The Greatest Storm

2003-10-31

Freak weather conditions on 31 January 1953 led to a storm that cut a destructive swathe across the North Sea coastlines of Britain and the Netherlands. Over 2,000 people were killed and thousands left homeless in the worst national peacetime disaster of the 20th century. This documentary charts the...

The Last Tomb Raider

2003-11-07

Circus strongman-turned-adventurer Giovanni Belzoni filled the British Museum with some of ancient Egypt's greatest treasures, including the seven-ton head of Rameses II. But as a result of a bitter feud he died in obscurity, never gaining the recognition he deserved. This docudrama advances the cas...

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Mystery of the Missing Ace

2003-11-14

Revealing the extraordinary detective story behind the disappearance in 1944 of highly decorated pilot Wing Commander Adrian Warburton, whose vanishing at the age of 26 sparked a 60-year mystery. In 2002 a diverse group of historians, archaeologists, and air-crash investigators began to piece togeth...

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Britain's Greatest Hoax

2003-11-21

For 40 years the science world was hoodwinked by a forged "missing link" between ape and man. But who was responsible for the infamous "Piltdown Man" hoax? Timewatch lines up the suspects, including the relic's "discoverer" Charles Dawson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and even staff at the Natural Histor...

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Gallipoli: The First D-Day

2003-11-28

The Second World War Normandy landings helped seal Winston Churchill's reputation as a great wartime leader, but 29 years earlier his first D-Day - the disastrous assault on Gallipoli in 1915 - almost finished his military career. Underwater footage of sunken battleships in the Dardanelles and revea...

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Through Hell for Hitler

2003-12-05

In a dramatised account, Timewatch follows a German soldier caught up in the most destructive conflict in history - Hitler's invasion of Russia. We travel the route that idealistic young Nazi Henry Metelmann took and see how the choices he made meant he emerged from the war a brutalised man. Last i...

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