About this season
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
Episodes (4)
1. Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
Aired 25 October 2011 • 60 min
Documentary revealing the secret story of how two men hacked into Hitler's personal super-code machine. Their break turned the Battle of Kursk and powered the D-Day landings.
2. The Most Courageous Raid of World War II
Aired 1 November 2011 • 60 min
Lord Ashdown tells the story of the Cockleshell Heroes, who took part in one of the most audacious commando raids of World War II - to blow up enemy shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
3. Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams
Aired 8 November 2011 • 60 min
James Holland presents an analysis of the 1943 mission to destroy German dams with a brand-new weapon - the bouncing bomb. Extraordinarily, the raid almost never happened.
4. Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story
Aired 15 November 2011 • 60 min
Ben MacIntyre reveals the true story of Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent, Eddie Chapman. Featuring remarkable footage of Chapman three years before his death.