Days That Shook the World - Season 1

Days That Shook the World - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes12
DatesSep 10, 2003 - Dec 3, 2003
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Episodes

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II / The Death of Diana
Season 1Episode 160 min

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II / The Death of Diana

Sep 10, 2003
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
Season 1Episode 260 min

The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler

28 June 1914 and April 1945. The Story Behind two pistol shots: the single bullet, fired by a young Serb nationalist that triggered World War 1 and the self-administered shot that brought about the end of Adolf Hitler and World War 2.
Sep 17, 2003
The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
Season 1Episode 360 min

The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela

4 April 1968 and February 1990. How two men - both intellectuals and determined opposers of racial oppression - came to symbolise the fight for equality as their lives for their cause.
Sep 24, 2003
Hiroshima
Season 1Episode 460 min

Hiroshima

This episode dramatises the minute by minute events leading up to the world's first ever atomic bombing. Based on extracts from President Truman's personal diaries which show the decision-making process reflecting America's real fear that the Japanese would never give up, Japanese eyewitness accounts of the tragedy in Hiroshima, diaries written on board Enola Gay, and the personal testimony of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the man who led the mission so secret not even his crew knew the enormity of what they were doing.
Oct 1, 2003
The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall

17 July 1918 and 9 November 1989. The Murder of the Russian royal family marked Russia's irrevocable move from a monarchy to a Communist state. Seventy Years later, the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolised the collapse of the ideology.
Oct 8, 2003
Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
Season 1Episode 660 min

Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel

9 November 1938 and 14 May 1948. Just ten years after the Nazis openly attacked Jews and their property - a huge step on the nightmare spiral to the Holocaust, the 2000 year old dream of a Jewish homeland becomes a reality and the state of Israel is Born.
Oct 15, 2003
Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
Season 1Episode 760 min

Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

26 November 1922 and 17 September 1822. Two days that brought ancient Egypt dramatically to life. In 1822, Jean-Francois champollion cracks Egyptian hieroglyphs. One hundred years later, Howard Carter reads the name on a tomb and makes an amazing discovery.
Oct 22, 2003
Fermi / Chernobyl
Season 1Episode 860 min

Fermi / Chernobyl

Nov 5, 2003
Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie
Season 1Episode 960 min

Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie

In September 1970 Terrorists hijacked a number of jetliners, flew them to Jordan and kept numerous hostages to enforce their demands. In December 1988 Pan Am flight 103 was blown from the sky killing all aboard and a number of Lockerbie Scotland residents.
Nov 12, 2003
The Assassination of JFK / Nixon's Last Day
Season 1Episode 1060 min

The Assassination of JFK / Nixon's Last Day

22 November 1963 and 8 August 1974. No one could have dreamed or anticipated the seismic shocks America suffered in the 20th century with the assassination of its youngest-ever leader and the disgrace and expulsion of its most successful election winner.
Nov 19, 2003
Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight

It is 19th October 1977 and Concorde taxis onto the runway at Toulouse Airport. Onboard, the crew are preparing for an historic day - the first supersonic test flight to New York. At JFK airport, protestors are waiting with a hostile welcome, but for the Concorde team and the French and British governments it is a moment that represents the end of an exhausting struggle.
Nov 26, 2003
Chuck Yeager / Bluebird
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Chuck Yeager / Bluebird

14 October 1947 and 4 January 1967. Compelled by a sense of patriotic duty and driven by incredible bravery, 20 years separate the determined efforts of two mens aim to become the fastest men on the planet.
Dec 3, 2003

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