Episode list

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.

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

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.

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.

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