Days That Shook the World

*Days That Shook the World*
Days That Shook the World
Genre	Documentary; History
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	30
Production
Executive producers	David Upshal; Richard Bradley; Chris Kelly
Producers	David Bartlett; Stuart Elliott
Running time	60 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	17 September 2003

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.