Secrets of the Imperial War Museum
For the first time the Imperial War Museum allows cameras behind the scenes. Revealing the pressures faced and satisfaction felt by experts and volunteers as they work to preserve objects and stories from our wartime past.
- 2021-2021
- 1 season
- Documentary
For the first time the Imperial War Museum allows cameras behind the scenes. Revealing the pressures faced and satisfaction felt by experts and volunteers as they work to preserve objects and stories from our wartime past.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2021
Episode 1
Belfast
HMS Belfast undergoes maintenance, painting and the lifeboat is taken away for restoration. An IWM film archive curator discovers the identity of a WW1 soldier in a movie. A WW2 auxiliary firefighter's uniform goes on display in London.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
A new WW2 Blitz exhibit is constructed in IWM London. Churchill's siren suit, an ambulance from Basra and a Mosquito are inspected, while a Mk1 Spitfire is prepared for the Duxford air show.
Episode 3
Husky
A Husky goes on display at Duxford, while Tamzine, a Dunkirk evacuation 'little boat' goes on display at IWM London. Artworks, a Dunkirk diary, a Harrier, Spitfire and Catalina also feature.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
A collection of WW1 letters from the trenches, bomb art installation, a firefighting exercise, checking the cabling on the suspended aircraft at Duxford.
Episode 5
Episode #1.5
The Holocaust exhibition at IWM London, some WW1 trench artifacts from the archives and scaring crows from the airfield at Duxford.
Episode 6
Episode #1.6
A mannequin display for a German greatcoat, Churchill's chair and bedroom in the subterranean war rooms, the first Jamaican pilot for the RFC and Rex's Dickin Medal.