Timewatch

Episode 4

Film 1: Sir Thomas More, the Tudor statesman who lost his head on the scaffold in 1535, was made a saint in 1937; now the heroic reputation of the 'man for all ...

Episode 3

'IF THE SPANISH ARMADA HAD LANDED ...' What would have happened if on Monday 7 August 1558 a Spanish Army had marched on London from the invasion beaches of Mar...

Episode 2

THE CHINA OF THE MANCHU EMPERORS and the signing of the treaties which gave Britain Hong Kong. Why do the Chinese regard these treaties as unequal? SCOTLAND AN...

Episode 1

WINDSORS' WAR: The continuing controversy surrounding the war-time role of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Victims of a bad press, they remained tactfully sile...

From Burning to Body Snatching: The Victorian Way of Death

Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry

On 14 November 194 the German Luftwaffe dropped so many bombs on Coventry that three quarters of the city was destroyed. Such was the devastation, the Germans c...

All the King's Men: Update

During the summer of 194, the SOE 's largest network in occupied France collapsed, and more than 4 of the French Resistance were arrested. At the centre of this...

Dunkirk 194: The 'Great Escape'

In May 194, Hitler's Panzers trapped the armies of Britain and France in a pocket of land around the French port of Dunkirk. Escape seemed impossible, but withi...

A Homecoming

The story of Count Adolf Heinrich von Arnim, one of the many wealthy Germans whose lands were taken away from them in 194, and his return to his former home for...

LBJ: 4: The Last Believer

As Johnson 's term of office drew to a close, riots raged in the inner cities, and anti-Vietnam protesters demonstrated all over the country. With the United St...

LBJ: : We Shall Overcome

Johnson had galvanised America with his appeal for racial justice and his vision for a 'Great Society' . But at the same time, he had promised not to send Amer...

LBJ: 2: My Fellow Americans

The new president reassured a nation stunned by John F Kennedy's assassination and then surprised America with his forceful stand on civil rights and his progra...

LBJ: 1: Beautiful Texas

First of a four-part Timewatch reassessment of the life and work of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who took over as US President following the assassination of John F K...

Blockade

When the German army surrounded Leningrad in 1941, it was the beginning of a terrible 9 days of isolation for its citizens. On a meager bread ration and with te...

My Private War

The experiences of six German soldiers who survived the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 are vividly captured through the viewfinders of the amateur film ca...