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6.51988
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Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
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1. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of DianaNow viewing2003-11-0150m
2. The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler50m28 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.
3. The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela50m4 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.
4. Hiroshima50m2.0This 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.
5. The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall50m17 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.
6. Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel50m9 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.
7. Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone50m26 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.- 8. Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie50m
9. First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl50m2 December 1942 and 26 April 1986. The first controlled nuclear chain reaction heralded the atomic age, but Chernobyl's runaway chain reaction was the first warning. How did the most exciting scientific breakthroughs ever lead to the disaster that the world had dreaded?- 10. The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon50m
- 11. Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight50m
- 12. Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell50m
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Days That Shook the World has 3 seasons and 32 episodes.
When did Days That Shook the World first air?
Days That Shook the World first aired in 2003.
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Days That Shook the World is classified as Documentary.