Days That Shook the World
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| Days That Shook the World | |
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| Genre | History |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
David Upshal Richard Bradley Chris Kelly |
| Producer(s) | David Bartlett |
| Broadcast | |
| Original airing | 2003-09-17 |
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| IMDb profile | |
Days That Shook The World is a British documentary television series that first aired on September 17, 2003, is currently in its third season, and airs on BBC, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007. It is currently being shown on Discovery Channel UK on weekdays at 4pm. It is unknown at this point if a fourth series will be made
[edit] Episodes
| Season | Episode | Title |
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| Pilot | First in Flight: The Wright Brothers/Apollo 11's 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/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: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel |
| 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: The End of World War I |
| 3 | 5 | Let Freedom Rise: 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 |
