| Days That Shook the World | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary History |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Upshal Richard Bradley Chris Kelly |
| Producer(s) | David Bartlett Stuart Elliott |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC |
| Original airing | September 17, 2003 |
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on the BBC on September 17, 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. Currently in its third season, it airs on the BBC, The History Channel, and Viasat History. The show also currently airs on Discovery Channel UK on weekdays at 4:00 PM. So far, it is unknown whether a fourth series will be produced.
The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
| Season | Episode | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 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: 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 | World War II |
| 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 |