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.[1]
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.[2][3]
The BBC released all three series on DVD and published a book written by Hugo Davenport to accompany the first series.[1][4]
The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.[citation needed]
Episodes
| Series | Episode | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Pilot | First in Flight: The Wright Brothers/Apollo 11 Moon Landing | |
| 1 | 1 | The Coronation of Elizabeth II/The Death of Diana |
| 1 | 2 | The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand/The Death of Adolf Hitler |
| 1 | 3 | The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr./The Release of Nelson Mandela |
| 1 | 4 | Hiroshima |
| 1 | 5 | The Murder of the Romanovs/The Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| 1 | 6 | Kristallnacht/The Birth of Israel |
| 1 | 7 | Tutankhamun's Tomb/Deciphering the Rosetta Stone |
| 1 | 8 | Black September Hijackings/Lockerbie |
| 1 | 9 | First Nuclear Reaction/Chernobyl |
| 1 | 10 | The Assassination of JFK/The Resignation of Nixon |
| 1 | 11 | Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission/Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight |
| 1 | 12 | Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager/Donald Campbell |
| 2 | 1 | Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg/Challenger Disaster |
| 2 | 2 | The Christmas Truce |
| 2 | 3 | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| 2 | 4 | Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels/The Great Train Robbery |
| 2 | 5 | Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal/Wolf's Lair |
| 2 | 6 | Reach for the Stars: Trials of Galileo/Yuri Gagarin's Flight |
| 2 | 7 | Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man |
| 2 | 8 | Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City bombing |
| 2 | 9 | Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident/Spy swap of Abel, Pryor and Powers |
| 2 | 10 | Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII |
| 3 | 1 | The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean/The Execution of the Rosenbergs |
| 3 | 2 | Rule of the Gun: The O.K. Corral/Saint Valentine's Day Massacre |
| 3 | 3 | Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds/Hitler Diaries |
| 3 | 4 | The War to End All Wars |
| 3 | 5 | Let Freedom Ring: The Boston Tea Party/The Independence of India |
| 3 | 6 | Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War |
| 3 | 7 | The Battle of Midway |
| 3 | 8 | The Road To Revolution: The Execution of Ceauşescu/The Iranian Revolution |
References
- ^ a b Days that shook the world. The complete series, [United States]: BBC Worldwide Americas Ltd., 2010, ISBN 978-1-4198-9567-8, OCLC 662599390, retrieved 11 February 2021
- ^ Lion Television Ltd; British Broadcasting Corporation (2008), Days that shook the world : 56 remarkable days that shaped world history, BBC : ABC : Roadshow Entertainment, retrieved 20 March 2020
- ^ "Lion finds US home for history format". C21media. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Davenport, Hugo. (2003). Days that shook the world : events that shaped world history. London: BBC. ISBN 0-563-48783-6. OCLC 62263514.
