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Timewatch

📅 1982 ⭐ 6.9 🕐 1h 0m GB GB
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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.

Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 4 episodes ▼
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Episode 1 1982-09-29
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Episode 2 1982-10-27
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Episode 3 1982-11-24
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Episode 4 1982-12-22
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Season 2 10 episodes ▼
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Episode 1 1983-01-26
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Episode 2 1983-02-23
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Episode 3 1983-03-30
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Episode 4 1983-04-27
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Episode 5 1983-06-01
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Episode 6 1983-06-29
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Episode 7 1983-07-27
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Special: Albert, Prince Consort 1983-09-07
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Episode 9 1983-10-12
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Episode 10 1983-11-01
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Season 3 14 episodes ▼
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The Klagenfurt Affair / The Black Death 1984-01-03
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Episode 2 1984-01-11
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Episode 3 1984-01-31
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Episode 4 1984-03-06
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Episode 5 1984-04-03
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Episode 6 1984-05-01
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The Conquest and the Conqueror 1984-05-08
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Episode 8 1984-06-06
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Episode 9 1984-07-10
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Episode 10 1984-08-07
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Episode 11 1984-09-05
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Episode 12 1984-10-03
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Episode 13 1984-11-07
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Episode 14 1984-12-05
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Season 4 12 episodes ▼
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Episode 1 1985-01-09
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Episode 2 1985-01-30
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Special: The Age of Charles II 1985-02-06
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Episode 4 1985-03-06
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Episode 5 1985-04-03
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The Battle for Berlin 1985-05-08
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Aspects of War 1985-10-10
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Elements of Justice 1985-11-07
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Magic Circles 1985-12-05
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Episode 97
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E98
Episode 98
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E99
Episode 99
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Season 5 10 episodes ▼
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Matter of Record 1986-01-01
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Episode 2 1986-02-06
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The Master Builders 1986-03-06
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Episode 4 1986-04-03
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Special: All the King's Men 1986-05-01
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The Road to War 1986-06-08
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The Price of the Past 1986-10-09
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A Medieval Affair 1986-11-11
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The Human Factor 1986-12-04
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E97
Episode 97
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Season 6 12 episodes ▼
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Codes of Conduct 1987-01-15
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Faces of Cromwell 1987-02-12
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Symptoms of an Age 1987-04-02
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Fateful Century 1987-04-30
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Times of Change 1987-06-25
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Affairs of State 1987-09-16
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Images of a Revolution 1987-10-14
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The Art of Chivalry 1987-11-11
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Judgment in Jerusalem 1987-12-09
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E97
Episode 97
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E98
Episode 98
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E102
Episode 102
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Season 7 12 episodes ▼
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Evidence of Neglect 1988-01-06
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Wars of the Word 1988-02-03
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The Man in the Iron Mask 1988-03-02
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The Hunger Winter 1988-03-30
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Dishonour and Death 1988-06-01
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Verdict on the Shroud 1988-07-27
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Shadow of the Ripper 1988-09-07
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A Woman's Story 1988-10-05
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Visions of a Conqueror: The Glorious Revolution 1988-11-09
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Bukharin and the Terror 1988-12-07
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E95
Episode 95
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E97
Episode 97
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Season 8 11 episodes ▼
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Light in the Dark 1989-01-11
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An Age of Empire 1989-02-08
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Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor 1989-04-05
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Playing with History 1989-05-03
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Witnesses 1989-05-31
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The Night of the Long Knives 1989-07-27
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Summer of the Bomb 1989-08-09
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The Land of Lost Content 1989-09-06
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Trotsky 1989-10-04
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Fascist Legacy: 1: A Promise Fulfilled 1989-11-01
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Fascist Legacy: 2: A Pledge Betrayed 1989-11-08
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Season 9 13 episodes ▼
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An Edge of Conspiracy 1990-01-17
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E2
Napoleon's Last Battle 1990-02-21
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Hungary: The End of Silence 1990-03-21
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Accounts of a Forgotten Army 1990-09-05
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Helping the Police with Their Enquiries 1990-09-19
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The Sipan Affair 1990-10-03
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I Don't Want to Be Remembered As a Chair 1990-10-17
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All the King's Jews 1990-10-31
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A War Far from Home 1990-11-14
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One of the Reasons Why 1990-11-28
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White Man's Grave, Black Man's Grave 1990-12-12
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Episode 50
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Episode 94
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Season 10 21 episodes ▼
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Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness 1991-01-23
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Savagery and the American Indian: 2: Civilisation 1991-01-30
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The Man Who Made the Supergun 1991-02-13
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Reluctant Comrade 1991-02-27
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The Transmission of Roger Bacon 1991-03-13
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Palestine: The First Intifada 1991-03-27
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A Cold War 1991-04-10
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Beside Franco in Spain 1991-09-18
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Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain 1991-10-02
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The Columbus Conspiracy 1991-10-16
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Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme 1991-10-30
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Harvests of Iron: 2: The Theatre of Operations 1991-11-06
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Suffer the Children 1991-11-20
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The Spoils of War 1991-12-18
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E98
Episode 98
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E99
Episode 99
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Episode 100
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Episode 120
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E130
Episode 130
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E140
Episode 140
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Episode 220
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Season 11 20 episodes ▼
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Battle of the Styles 1992-01-15
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Kwai 1992-01-29
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Tito: 1: Churchill's Man? 1992-02-26
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Tito: 2: His Own Man 1992-03-04
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Woolly Al Walks the Kitty Back 1992-03-11
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The Story of Elisabeth Nietzsche: 1: Forgotten Fatherland 1992-04-01
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The Story of Elisabeth Nietzsche: 2: Mother of the Fatherland 1992-04-08
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SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 1992-06-03
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Gladio: 1: The Ringmasters 1992-06-10
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Gladio: 2: The Puppeteers 1992-06-17
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Gladio: 3: The Foot Soldiers 1992-06-24
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The Un-Americans: 1: Five Minutes to Midnight 1992-09-02
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The Un-Americans: 2: No Place to Hide 1992-09-09
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The Un-Americans: 3: To Hell with Truth 1992-09-16
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A Diplomat in Japan: 1: A Clash of Cultures 1992-09-23
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E16
A Diplomat In Japan: 2: Witness to a Revolution 1992-09-30
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E17
Special: The Cuban Missile Crisis: 1: Defying Uncle Sam 1992-10-07
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E18
Special: The Cuban Missile Crisis: 2: Eyeball to Eyeball 1992-10-14
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Sold Down the River 1992-10-21
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Roger Casement - Heart of Darkness 1992-10-28
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Season 12 14 episodes ▼
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Allied to the Mafia 1993-01-13
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The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire 1993-01-27
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The Stolen Child 1993-02-10
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The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover 1993-02-24
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The Pill: Prescription for Revolution 1993-03-10
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Buffalo Bill 1993-03-24
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Special: Battle of the Bombers 1993-04-07
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On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging 1993-06-02
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True Story of the Roman Arena 1993-09-15
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The Mother of All Battles 1993-09-29
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Hunger Strike: A Hidden History 1993-10-13
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Children of the Third Reich 1993-11-10
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The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald 1993-11-21
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Chairman Mao the Last Emperor 1993-12-20
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Season 13 16 episodes ▼
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Forgotten Heroes 1994-01-12
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The Real Rasputin 1994-01-26
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Spies in the Sky 1994-02-09
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Presumed Guilty - A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969 1994-03-09
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Racism or Realism? - A History of Immigration 1994-04-06
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Seeds of War 1994-06-26
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The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition 1994-11-06
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E8
Hitler's Secret Weapons 1994-11-13
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Flames of War 1994-11-20
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E10
Age of the Sphinx 1994-11-27
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Khrushchev - The Peasant Premier 1994-12-04
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Memo from Machiavelli: How to Succeed in British Politics 1994-12-11
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Typhoid Mary 1994-12-18
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E96
Episode 96
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E98
Episode 98
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E99
Episode 99
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Season 14 11 episodes ▼
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Out of the Ashes 1995-01-11
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Uncle Ho and Uncle Sam 1995-03-23
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The BBC in Vietnam 1995-03-30
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The Life and Loves of Oscar Wilde 1995-04-15
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Special: Biafra - Fighting a War without Guns 1995-07-23
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E6
Evidence of Vikings 1995-10-08
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The True Story of Pocahontas 1995-10-15
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Kamikaze 1995-10-22
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Quiet Revolution 1995-10-29
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The Projection Racket 1995-11-05
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Tanks - Wonder Weapon of WW1? 1995-11-12
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Season 15 13 episodes ▼
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Karnak - A Hidden History 1996-01-14
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Russia's Secret War 1996-01-21
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Drake's Last Voyage 1996-01-28
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Bad Boys 1996-02-04
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Voices of Victorian London 1996-02-11
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Special: Haig - The Unknown Soldier 1996-07-03
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Hannibal and Desert Storm 1996-09-10
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The History of a Mystery 1996-09-17
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Gold Rush Memories 1996-09-24
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Stalin's Foreign Slaves 1996-10-01
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Baiting the Bear 1996-10-08
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E12
Remember Aberfan 1996-10-15
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Cry Hungary 1996-10-22
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Season 16 15 episodes ▼
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Love Story 1997-02-25
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Before Columbus 1997-03-04
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Secret Memories 1997-03-11
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The Boer War: The First Media War 1997-03-18
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Birth Story 1997-03-25
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Forgotten Allies 1997-04-01
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Back to the Iron Age 1997-04-18
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The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai 1997-10-28
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Lords of the Maya 1997-11-04
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Alison: A Personal History 1997-11-11
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The Gentlemen Spies 1997-11-18
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The African Trade 1997-11-25
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E13
Lenin's Secret Files 1997-12-02
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E14
Remember the Ugandan Asians 1997-12-09
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In Search of Cleopatra 1997-12-16
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Season 17 13 episodes ▼
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Hitler and the Invasion of Britain 1998-04-07
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Grammar School Boys 1998-04-14
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The Oklahoma Outlaw 1998-04-21
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The Roman Way of War 1998-04-28
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Las Vegas and the Mormons 1998-05-05
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Aborigine: A Collision of Conscience 1998-05-12
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Sex and War 1998-09-29
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Lloyd George's War 1998-10-06
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The Pilgrim Obsession 1998-10-13
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Banking with Hitler 1998-10-20
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The British in India 1998-10-27
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An American Firefight 1998-11-03
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Operation Sealion 1998-11-10
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Season 18 12 episodes ▼
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Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax 1999-04-17
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The Crossing 1999-04-24
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Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs 1999-05-01
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The Lost Temple of Java 1999-05-08
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Sleeping with the Enemy 1999-05-22
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Before the Titanic 1999-05-29
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The Forgotten Volunteers 1999-06-05
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Letting the Genie out of the Bottle 1999-06-26
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The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War 1999-10-02
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E10
Ivan the Terrible 1999-11-06
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Tales of the Eiffel Tower 1999-11-20
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A Very British Mutiny 1999-12-04
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Season 19 2 episodes ▼
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The Germans We Kept 2000-01-08
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Myths of Nelson's Navy 2000-07-25
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Season 20 12 episodes ▼
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The Empire State Story 2001-01-12
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Himmler, Hitler, and the End of the Reich 2001-01-19
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The King's Servant 2001-01-26
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Nero's Golden House 2001-02-02
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Public Enemy Number One 2001-02-09
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Hitler, Churchill, and the Paratroopers 2001-02-16
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The Last Surrender 2001-05-11
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Debutantes 2001-05-18
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Strangeways Revisited 2001-05-25
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Scharnhorst 2001-06-01
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Roman Soldiers to Be 2001-06-08
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E12
Bombing Germany 2001-08-23
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Season 21 13 episodes ▼
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The Making of Adolf Hitler 2002-01-04
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The Mystery of the Iron Bridge 2002-01-11
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Death of the Battleship 2002-01-18
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Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea 2002-02-01
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Jubilee Day 2002-02-08
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The Queen and Her Lover 2002-02-15
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Myths of the Titanic 2002-04-19
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Battle for Berlin 2002-05-10
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Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad 2002-08-09
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The Myth of Custer's Last Stand 2002-08-16
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Akhenaten and Nefertiti: The Royal Gods of Egypt 2002-09-06
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Murder at Harvard 2002-12-14
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Episode 90
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Season 22 13 episodes ▼
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White Slaves, Pirate Gold 2003-01-10
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Lost Cities of the Maya 2003-01-17
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Rocket and Its Rivals 2003-01-24
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E4
Ramesses III - Behind the Myth of a Pharaoh 2003-01-31
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E5
1914: The War Revolution 2003-02-07
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Concorde: A Love Story 2003-10-19
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Zulu: The True Story 2003-10-24
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The Greatest Storm 2003-10-31
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The Last Tomb Raider 2003-11-07
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Mystery of the Missing Ace 2003-11-14
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Britain's Greatest Hoax 2003-11-21
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Gallipoli: The First D-Day 2003-11-28
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E13
Through Hell for Hitler 2003-12-05
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Season 23 11 episodes ▼
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Britain's X-Files 2004-01-09
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The Lost Liner and the Empire's Gold 2004-01-16
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The Secrets of Enzo Ferrari 2004-01-23
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The Mysteries of the Medieval Ship 2004-01-30
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E5
How Mad Was King George? 2004-02-06
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E6
Who Killed Rasputin? 2004-10-01
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E7
The Lost Heroes 2004-10-08
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E8
The Mystery of the Black Death 2004-10-15
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E9
The Black Pharaohs 2004-10-22
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The Secrets of the Mary Rose 2004-10-29
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Julius Caesar's Greatest Battle 2004-11-05
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Season 24 11 episodes ▼
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Who Killed Ivan the Terrible? 2005-01-29
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E2
Murder in Rome 2005-03-04
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E3
Who Killed Stalin? 2005-03-11
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Princess Margaret: A Love Story 2005-03-25
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E5
The Killer Wave of 1607 2005-04-01
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Britain's Lost Colosseum 2005-05-20
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The Year Without Summer 2005-05-27
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The Gunpowder Plot 2005-11-04
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E9
Pol Pot: The Journey to the Killing Fields 2005-11-11
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Children of the Doomed Voyage 2005-11-18
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Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler 2005-11-25
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Season 25 12 episodes ▼
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The Bog Bodies 2006-01-20
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E2
The Battle of the River Plate 2006-01-27
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E3
The Floating Brothel 2006-02-03
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The Unknown Soldiers 2006-02-24
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Missing in Action 2006-03-03
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The Secret History of Genghis Khan 2006-03-10
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E7
The Crusaders' Lost Fort 2006-04-14
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E8
Mystery of the Headless Romans 2006-04-21
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E9
Battle for Warsaw 2006-04-28
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E10
The Iron Coffin 2006-05-05
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E11
San Francisco's Great Quake 2006-05-12
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E12
The Princess Spy 2006-05-19
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Season 26 12 episodes ▼
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The Hunt for U864 2007-01-05
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E2
Beatlemania 2007-01-12
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E3
Killer Cloud 2007-01-19
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Hadrian's Wall 2007-01-26
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E5
The First Blitz 2007-02-02
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E6
The Last Duel 2007-02-09
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E7
Special: Remember the Galahad 2007-04-02
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E8
Hijack 2007-04-13
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E9
The Wave That Destroyed Atlantis 2007-04-20
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E10
The Hidden Children 2007-04-27
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E11
Gladiator Graveyard 2007-05-11
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E12
The People's Coronation 2007-05-18
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Season 27 11 episodes ▼
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Viking Voyage 2008-01-05
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E2
Bloody Omaha 2008-01-06
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E3
The Wreckers 2008-01-12
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E4
The Greatest Knight 2008-01-19
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E5
The Pharaoh's Lost City 2008-01-26
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E6
Ten Pound Poms 2008-02-02
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E7
Stonehenge 2008-09-27
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E8
Britain's Forgotten Floods 2008-10-04
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E9
The Boxer Rebellion 2008-10-11
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E10
Young Victoria 2008-10-18
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E11
The Last Day of World War One 2008-11-01
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Season 28 8 episodes ▼
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Queen Elizabeth's Lost Guns 2009-02-21
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E2
QE2: The Final Voyage 2009-02-28
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E3
The Real Bonnie and Clyde 2009-03-07
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E4
Captain Cook: The Man Behind the Legend 2009-03-14
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E5
WW1 Aces Falling 2009-03-21
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E6
Pyramid: The Last Secret 2009-03-28
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E7
In Shackleton's Footsteps 2009-04-04
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E8
The Prince and the Plotter 2009-07-04
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Season 29 1 episode ▼
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Atlantis: The Evidence 2010-06-02
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Season 30 4 episodes ▼
E1
Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes 2011-10-25
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E2
The Most Courageous Raid of World War II 2011-11-01
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E3
Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams 2011-11-08
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E4
Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story 2011-11-15
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