Days That Shook the World(2003)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2003-11-01
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 9
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 32
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
Keywords
world history
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 12E01
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana
Air Date: 2003-11-01
No episode overview available.
E02
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
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28 June 1914 and April 1945. The Story Behind two pistol shots: the single bullet, fired by a young Serb nationalist ...
E03
The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
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4 April 1968 and February 1990. How two men - both intellectuals and determined opposers of racial oppression - came ...
E04
Hiroshima
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This episode dramatises the minute by minute events leading up to the world's first ever atomic bombing. Based on ext...
E05
The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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17 July 1918 and 9 November 1989. The Murder of the Russian royal family marked Russia's irrevocable move from a mona...
E06
Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
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9 November 1938 and 14 May 1948. Just ten years after the Nazis openly attacked Jews and their property - a huge step...
E07
Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
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26 November 1922 and 17 September 1822. Two days that brought ancient Egypt dramatically to life. In 1822, Jean-Franc...
E08
Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie
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No episode overview available.
E09
First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
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2 December 1942 and 26 April 1986. The first controlled nuclear chain reaction heralded the atomic age, but Chernobyl...
E10
The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon
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No episode overview available.
E11
Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
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No episode overview available.
E12
Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell
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No episode overview available.
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