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Timewatch: Season 21

13 episodes Premiered Jan 4, 2002 Updated Sep 28, 2026
Previously on Timewatch

Season 21 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 20.
  • ⚡ 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.
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Season 21 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 21: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (9): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S21·E1 Mytharc

The Making of Adolf Hitler

Jan 4, 2002 · 50 min

Investigates new research on the early years of the Nazi leader, which have always been mired in controversy. Surprising new information comes to light about his first love amid re

S21·E2 Core

The Mystery of the Iron Bridge

Jan 11, 2002 · 49 min

The Iron Bridge is an icon of the Industrial Revolution - the world's first metal structure and an outstanding example of 18th-Century British technical ingenuity. Yet, incredibly,

S21·E3 Core

Death of the Battleship

Jan 18, 2002 · 50 min

The sinking of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse in December 1941 is recognised as one of Britain's greatest maritime disasters. Follow a team of military and civilian divers try

S21·E4 Core

Kill 'Em All: American War Crimes in Korea

Feb 1, 2002 · 50 min

In July 1950, No Gun Ri in Korea witnessed one of the largest civilian massacres in US military history. This film, based on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, hears from eyewitnes

S21·E5 Core

Jubilee Day

Feb 8, 2002 · 50 min

From the Sex Pistols' trip down the Thames to the royal bonfire in Windsor Great Park, from street parties in Fulham to village fetes in Hampshire and Worcestershire, the Queen's S

S21·E6 Core

The Queen and Her Lover

Feb 15, 2002 · 50 min

Love, greed, murder, rape, and political treachery were ingredients in the doomed 16th-century relationship between Mary, Queen of Scots and her lover, the Earl of Bothwell. Dr Sau

S21·E7 Core

Myths of the Titanic

Apr 19, 2002 · 50 min

No maritime tragedy has captured the public's imagination like the sinking of the Titanic. In the week that marks the 90th anniversary of the disaster, rare archive footage, plus l

S21·E8 Mytharc

Battle for Berlin

May 10, 2002 · 50 min

Rape, murder, pillage, and destruction ensued when, in early 1945, the Red Army avenged Germany's invasion of Russia some four years earlier. As historian Antony Beevor documents t

S21·E10 Core

Stalin and the Betrayal of Leningrad

Aug 9, 2002 · 50 min

Over 1,500,000 people died from starvation and disease when Germany besieged Leningrad for 900 days in one of the Second World War's darkest episodes. But even when the Soviets for

S21·E11 Mytharc

The Myth of Custer's Last Stand

Aug 16, 2002 · 50 min

The Little Bighorn in Montana is the site of one of the most famous battles in the history of the American West. For more than a century, flamboyant General George Armstrong Custer

S21·E12 Core

Akhenaten and Nefertiti: The Royal Gods of Egypt

Sep 6, 2002 · 50 min

Using dramatic reconstructions and filmed throughout Egypt, this documentary unravels the story of King Akhenaten, the country's heretic monarch, who 3,300 years ago introduced a n

S21·E13 Core

Murder at Harvard

Dec 14, 2002 · 50 min

In 1849 American society was shaken by the grisly news that a prominent and wealthy Bostonian, George Parkman, had been killed and dismembered. The subsequent trial found a Harvard

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