Timewatch - Season 24 / Year 2005

Timewatch - Season 24 / Year 2005

Season 24 / Year 2005

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Episodes12
DatesJan 29, 2005 - Nov 25, 2005
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Episodes

Who Killed Ivan the Terrible?
Year 2005Episode 160 min

Who Killed Ivan the Terrible?

Criminologist David Wilson conducts an investigation into the death of Russia's first dictator, who ruled the country during the 16th century. Beginning with rumours that Ivan was strangled by enemies close to him, the historical murder mystery then takes Wilson across Russia and on to the court of Queen Elizabeth I. Forensic science finally reveals the way in which Ivan was dispatched - but who was responsible?
Jan 29, 2005
Murder in Rome
Year 2005Episode 260 min

Murder in Rome

Rome, 81 BC: Sextus Roscius is accused of patricide. If found guilty, he faces a brutal execution. Defending him is a young lawyer - Cicero. Using the actual trial record, this drama reconstructs one of the most celebrated murder trials in history. NEW SERIES 1/5.
Mar 4, 2005
Who Killed Stalin?
Year 2005Episode 360 min

Who Killed Stalin?

Russia's brutal dictator fell into a coma in 1953. Many wanted him dead. So who was responsible? Simon Sebag Montefiore visits Moscow to meet Stalin's friends and family and unearths documents in the secret Soviet archive that suggest foul play. 2/5.
Mar 11, 2005
Princess Margaret: A Love Story
Year 2005Episode 460 min

Princess Margaret: A Love Story

Her romance with a dashing fighter pilot was the stuff of fairy tales - yet the prospect of marriage between the Queen's sister and Group Captain Peter Townsend, a divorced commoner, divided opinion. In 1955 she ended two years of tabloid speculation by choosing duty over love - but was it a needless sacrifice?
Mar 26, 2005
The Killer Wave of 1607
Year 2005Episode 560 min

The Killer Wave of 1607

At 9am on 20 January 1607, a massive wave devastated the counties of the Bristol Channel. It came without warning, sweeping all before it. The flooding stretched inland as far as the Glastonbury Tor. Twohundred square miles of Somerset, Devon, Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire were inundated. Up to 2,000 people died. Yet for 400 years, the killer wave of 1607 has been forgotten. Timewatch relives the terror and the human tragedy of 1607 and follows the research of two scientists who are increasingly convinced that the wave was not simply a freak storm but a tsunami.

Apr 2, 2005
Britain's Lost Colosseum
Year 2005Episode 660 min

Britain's Lost Colosseum

The Romans loved their bloody spectacles with gladiators and wild beasts, so they built amphitheatres all over their empire. In Britain there were at least 25 and the largest was in Chester, a fortress city ofhuge importance. What exactly did it look like and was it built by Emperor Vespasian, the man who built the Colosseum in Rome?

May 20, 2005
The Year without Summer
Year 2005Episode 760 min

The Year without Summer

Two experts try to piece together how the biggest volcanic eruption ever recorded, at Mount Tambora in eastern Indonesia in 1815, brought about worldwide climate change and altered the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

May 27, 2005
Emperor Hirohito
Year 2005Episode 860 min

Emperor Hirohito

Jul 1, 2005
The Gunpowder Plot
Year 2005Episode 960 min

The Gunpowder Plot

Nov 4, 2005
Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields
Year 2005Episode 1060 min

Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields

Nov 11, 2005
Children of the Doomed Voyage
Year 2005Episode 1160 min

Children of the Doomed Voyage

Nov 18, 2005
Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler
Year 2005Episode 1260 min

Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler

Documentary which looks at how, during WWII, the Americans tried to get inside the mind of Hitler by ordering a team of Harvard psychologists to draw up a profile of him.

Nov 25, 2005

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