Days That Shook the World


Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003 and lasted for three series. Each 60 minute episode explores either one or two significant events from history through a combination of dramatisation, archive footage, and eyewitness accounts.
It was produced by Lion Television and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. It has been broadcast on the BBC, ABC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History.
The BBC released all three series on DVD and published a book written by Hugo Davenport to accompany the first series.
The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.

Episodes

SeriesEpisodeTitle
PilotFirst in Flight: The Wright Brothers/Apollo 11 Moon Landing
11The Coronation of Elizabeth II/The Death of Diana
12The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand/The Death of Adolf Hitler
13The Assassination of Martin Luther King/The Release of Nelson Mandela
14Hiroshima
15The Murder of the Romanovs/The Fall of the Berlin Wall
16Kristallnacht/The Birth of Israel
17Tutankhamun's Tomb/Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
18Black September Hijackings/Lockerbie
19First Nuclear Reaction/Chernobyl
110The Assassination of JFK/The Resignation of Nixon
111Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission/Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
112Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager/Donald Campbell
21Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg/Challenger Disaster
22The Christmas Truce
23Attack on Pearl Harbor
24Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels/The Great Train Robbery
25Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal/Wolf's Lair
26Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo/Yuri Gagarin's Flight
27Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
28Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City bombing
29Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident/Spy swap of Abel, Pryor and Powers
210Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII
31The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean/The Execution of the Rosenbergs
32Rule of the Gun: The O.K. Corral/Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
33Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds/Hitler Diaries
34The War to End All Wars
35Let Freedom Ring: The Boston Tea Party/The Independence of India
36Battle For The Holy City: The Six-Day War
37The Battle of Midway
38The Road To Revolution: The Execution of Ceauşescu/The Iranian Revolution