Timewatch - Season 25 / Year 2006
Season 25 / Year 2006
Episodes
The Bog Bodies
Two crimes committed many years in the past are examined by a team of scientists. The victims are Bog Bodies - Celts perfectly preserved by the peat bog in which they had been buried. Timewatch was grantedexclusive access to film the entire investigation, and this compelling film follows the archaeologists as they establish who these men were, when they lived - and how they died.
Battle of the River Plate
The Floating Brothel
Unknown Soldiers
Missing in Action
The Secret History of Genghis Khan
Documentary looking at the Secret History of the Mongols, said to have been written by Genghis Khan's adopted son, which reveals a very different man to the brutal butcher of Western legend. Not just awomaniser, but a devoted husband. Not just a warrior, but a politician. Not just a conqueror, but a legislator. A man who wanted the lessons he had learnt - good and bad - to be passed onto his successors. Within its pages lies the inside story of how an illiterate nomad inspired his successors to conquer the largest land empire the world has ever seen.
The Crusader's Lost Fort
Mystery of the Headless Romans
Battle for Warsaw
The Iron Coffin
San Francisco's Great Quake
The Princess Spy
Documentary about Noor Inayat Khan, who in 1943 became the first woman wireless operator to be sent into war-torn France. It was the most dangerous job in SOE, Churchill's secret army, and she was not expected to survive long.
The daughter of an Indian mystic and a writer of children's stories in pre-war Paris, she was a curious choice for a secret agent, but became London's vital link with Nazi-occupied Paris. Betrayed, captured and tortured, Noor revealed nothing before she was executed. She was awarded the George Cross for her bravery.
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