Timewatch: Season 16
Season 16 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Timewatch Season 15.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 16 Progress Shield
Love Story
Feb 25, 1997 · 50 min
A Second World War love affair between German housewife Lilly Wust and young Jewish lesbian Felice Schragenheim.
Before Columbus
Mar 4, 1997 · 50 min
Christopher Columbus is popularly believed to have been, in 1492, the first European to discover America. However, some historians are convinced the New World was known before he s
Secret Memories
Mar 11, 1997 · 50 min
A wireless operator who survived torture and a Nazi concentration camp, a 20-year-old sabotage expert, and an MI6 agent who filmed his own undercover operations are just three of t
The Boer War: The First Media War
Mar 18, 1997 · 50 min
The Boer War of 1899-1902 saw correspondents and cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time. Diaries, memoirs, photographs and films form part of an examinati
Birth Story
Mar 25, 1997 · 50 min
For centuries babies were born at home, their mothers assisted through the birth by other women. But 50 years ago, childbirth was taken out of the home and into hospitals. The tran
Forgotten Allies
Apr 1, 1997 · 50 min
When war broke out in South East Asia in 1941, one hill tribe - the Christian, English-speaking Karen - distinguished itself in the fight against Japan. Karen helped halt the Japan
Back to the Iron Age
Apr 18, 1997 · 50 min
Tonight's documentary reassesses a project from 1977 designed to find out more about prehistoric life. For over a year a group of young people lived and worked on a replica of an I
The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
Oct 28, 1997 · 50 min
Forty years ago a war movie created a legend. Timewatch now tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Toosey, the British officer in Burma whose job it was to supply the Japanese with
Lords of the Maya
Nov 4, 1997 · 50 min
As Christianity became a dominant religious force in Europe, a religious movement was shaping the ancient Mayan civilisation of central America. It was based upon the arrival of a
Alison: A Personal History
Nov 11, 1997 · 50 min
In 1988 the third film about the inspirational life of Alison French, who has cerebral palsy, saw her get married to Mark John. Ten years and two children later, she talks candidly
The Gentlemen Spies
Nov 18, 1997 · 50 min
The first secret documents released by MI5 to the Public Records Office cover its establishment by the mysterious Vernon Kell, code-named "K", in 1909, and the fight to counter the
The African Trade
Nov 25, 1997 · 50 min
Transatlantic slavery was responsible for the largest long-distance forced migration in history. Europeans did not venture into the interior of Africa until after abolition, so how
Lenin's Secret Files
Dec 2, 1997 · 50 min
Secret files documenting the life of Lenin were hidden away for decades by Soviet authorities in a labyrinth of vaults deep underground, behind blast-proof steel doors specially st
Remember the Ugandan Asians
Dec 9, 1997 · 50 min
Twenty-five years ago the Ugandan Asians arrived in Britain, having been expelled from their own country. Greeted warmly on their arrival, they also saw the harsh face of Britain,
In Search of Cleopatra
Dec 16, 1997 · 50 min
Explores the myths that still surround the legendary Egyptian queen, and attempts to unravel the truth behind a life - and death - that helped to shape the civilised world for the