As of July 2026, Timewatch Season 27 aired in 2008 with 11 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Timewatch Season 27

2008 11 Episodes Documentary ⭐ 7/10

Timewatch Season 27 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it treats its subject with more rigour than the format usually demands. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 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. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Timewatch Season 27 is worth clearing space for. Timewatch Season 27 approaches its subject with the rigour that makes documentary storytelling worth taking seriously. Season 27 of Timewatch includes 11 episodes. It aired from January 2008 to November 2008. Episodes include "Viking Voyage", "Bloody Omaha", "The Wreckers". It was aired in 2008. Timewatch Season 27 lets its subjects speak for themselves rather than shaping them into a predetermined narrative. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Timewatch Season 27 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. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. The subject drives every choice here, not the other way around. The kind of production you finish and immediately want to read more about.

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🎬 Timewatch Season 27 — Episode Guide

E1
Viking Voyage
2008-01-05
In July 2007, 61 men and women set off on an extraordinary voyage to sail the world's largest reconstructed Viking ship from Denmark to Ireland. This film follows their seven-week journey and reveals the emotional and physical challenges the crew face as they cope with having less than a square metr...
E2
Bloody Omaha
2008-01-06
The D-Day landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy on 6 June 1944 is widely regarded as a great victory, but the operation was almost an unimaginable disaster. Very little actually went to plan on the day - the majority of the landing craft missed their targets while US troops suffered heavy casualties. H...
E3
The Wreckers
2008-01-12
In January 2007 the MSC Napoli ran aground, spilling its cargo on a Devon beach. Opportunists plundered the ship's booty while the authorities struggled to police the scene. But the looters of the Napoli were reviving a tradition that stretched back centuries: wrecking. Author Bella Bathurst goes in...
E4
The Greatest Knight
2008-01-19
The medieval mêlée tournament was a brutal free-for-all with sharpened weapons, few rules, and one undisputed champion: William Marshal. Military historian Dr Saul David journeys into Marshal's knightly world, training as he did, trying out his weapons, and charting his epic rise from a money-grabbi...
E5
The Pharaoh's Lost City
2008-01-26
More than 3,000 years ago the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten marched his people from Thebes to a desert plain beside the Nile. Within 20 years a huge new city was constructed dedicated to the Pharaoh's new god. This would be a place of abundance overseen by Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti. After 25 years...
E6
Ten Pound Poms
2008-02-02
Some 30,000 Brits head for Australia each year - just a fraction of the one million who gambled on the ten-pound assisted-passage scheme through the 1950s and 60s, in one of the largest planned migrations of the 20th century. One of the conditions of the deal was that they stay for a minimum of two ...
E7
Stonehenge
2008-09-27
Experts have always believed that Britain's most iconic ancient monument was designed as a burial site. Two years ago a radical new theory emerged suggesting that Stonehenge was a place of healing rather than interment - a Bronze Age equivalent of Lourdes. During the first dig at the site in 50 year...
E8
Britain's Forgotten Floods
2008-10-04
The Asian tsunami of 2004 was a devastating natural disaster of epic proportions. Many believe a huge wave on this scale couldn't hit Europe - are they wrong? In 1607, an enormous flood engulfed Somerset and Monmouthshire claiming a huge number of lives. Professors Simon Haslett and Ted Bryant belie...
E9
The Boxer Rebellion
2008-10-11
Peking, June 1900: The "Society of Right and Harmonious Fists", known by Europeans as the Boxers, entrapped more than 3,000 foreigners and Chinese Christians in the diplomatic quarter, in a bid to free China from the influence of the "Western devils". Ended by a Western relief army after 55 days, th...
E10
Young Victoria
2008-10-18
How did an unassuming little girl become the most powerful woman in the world? At her birth, few believed Princess Victoria would one day be crowned Queen, but following a number of untimely deaths and the failure of her uncles to father any children, she became heir to the throne. But the battle be...
E11
The Last Day of World War One
2008-11-01
Michael Palin tells the explosive, poignant story of the First World War's final day, which marks the start of the BBC's 90 Years of Remembrance season. Taking a solemn trudge around the former battlefields of northern Europe, he recounts events leading up to that last morning and reveals how soldie...

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