Timewatch - Season 28 / Year 2009

Season 28 / Year 2009

Episodes

Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns

QE2 - The Final Voyage

The Real Bonnie and Clyde
Hollywood portrayed them as the most glamorous outlaws in American history, but the reality of life on the run for Bonnie and Clyde was one of violence, hardship and danger.
With unprecedented access to gang members' memoirs, family archives and recently released police records, Timewatch takes an epic road trip through the heart of Depression-era America, in search of the true story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend

WWI Aces Falling
Edward Mannock VC and James McCudden VC rose from modest backgrounds to become two of Britain's greatest fighter aces in World War One.
As the number of their victories grew, so did their chances of dying inflames. Timewatch tells the story of their battle to survive against the odds, and of the 90-year-old mystery surrounding the death of one of them.

Pyramid - The Last Secret
For centuries archaeologists have been trying to work out how the ancient Egyptians raised huge stone blocks to the top of the Great Pyramid.
This documentary presents a radical theory by French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin. He believes that an internal ramp was used, which is still inside the Pyramid waiting to be discovered. If he is right, it is the greatest discovery since Tutankhamun.

In Shackleton's Footsteps

The Prince and the Plotter

Blitz: The Bombing of Coventry
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