Timewatch Season 20 Episodes

Episode 1

The Empire State Story

48 mins

A chronicle of the Empire State Building, the world's tallest skyscraper when opened in 1931. It investigates the building's history through interviews with the people who contributed to the construction of this icon of the American dream.

Episode 2

Himmler, Hitler and the End of the Reich

Episode 3

The King's Servant

Episode 4

Nero's Golden House

Episode 5

Public Enemy Number One

The real life gangster who matched the movies, John Dillinger.

Episode 6

Hitler, Churchill and the Paratroopers

Episode 7

The Last Surrender

In 1974 Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, a 52 year old Japanese officer, made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle. Never having received his formal surrender orders, he had, for nearly thirty years, loyally continued fighting the Second World War. Until now Onoda has never talked to Western Press. The Last Surrender pieces together his complex and ultimately sinister story.

Episode 8

Debutantes

1939 was the last year debutantes were presented at Buckingham Palace before World War II. This documentary interviews many of the women presented that year, upper class British nobility among them, and lets the women and their husbands (now in their later years) look back and tell their stories of that time and what happened to them during and after the war. A clear eyed look at life in Britain among the upper class with excellent archival footage from the era. Elisabeth Diana Percy, Duchess of Northumberland; Kathleen Kennedy; Unity Mitford; Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, and other notables are included.

Episode 9

Strangeways Revisited

Episode 10

Scharnhorst

Episode 11

Roman Soldiers to Be

Episode 12

Bombing Germany

50 mins

Timewatch sheds new light on the final stages of the Allied strategic bombing campaign.