Timewatch
Season 30
20114 episodes
Episodes
E1Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
2011-10-25 · 60m
Documentary revealing the secret story of how two men hacked into Hitler's personal super-code machine. Their break turned the Battle of Kursk and powered the D-Day landings.
E2The Most Courageous Raid of World War II
2011-11-01 · 60m
Lord Ashdown tells the story of the Cockleshell Heroes, who took part in one of the most audacious commando raids of World War II - to blow up enemy shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
E3Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams
2011-11-08 · 60m
James Holland presents an analysis of the 1943 mission to destroy German dams with a brand-new weapon - the bouncing bomb. Extraordinarily, the raid almost never happened.
E4Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story
2011-11-15 · 60m
Ben MacIntyre reveals the true story of Britain's most extraordinary wartime double agent, Eddie Chapman. Featuring remarkable footage of Chapman three years before his death.