Days That Shook the World

  • : 2003
  • : 31
  • : 3
  • BBC Four
  • Documentary History

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Pilot: The Wright Brothers/Apollo 11's Moon Landing
Episode overview
22, 2003
Documentary on days that hold world significance focuses on two remarkable days in aviation history - the date of the first powered flight and the day Apollo 11 landed on the moon.
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II/The Death of Diana
Episode overview
10, 2003
The coronation of the young Queen Elizabeth on June 2nd 1953, the first coronation ever to be televised. Despite the death of Queen Mary on 24 March, the coronation went ahead, as Mary .. show full overview
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The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand/The Death of Hitler
Episode overview
17, 2003
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.
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The Assassination of Martin Luther King/The Release of Nelson Mandela
Episode overview
24, 2003
4 April 1968 and February 1990 How tow men - both intellectuals and determined opposers of racial oppression - came to symbolise the fight foor equality as their lives for their cause.
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Hiroshima
Episode overview
01, 2003
At exactly 5.32am on August 6th 1945, a B29 Bomber, The Enola Gay, took off from a small island in the South Pacific on a clandestine operation. It's mission? To drop a bomb on .. show full overview
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The Murder of the Romanovs/The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Episode overview
08, 2003
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.
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Kristallnacht/The Birth of Israel
Episode overview
15, 2003
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 .. show full overview
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Tutankhamun's Tomb/Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
Episode overview
22, 2003
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 .. show full overview
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Fermi/Chernobyl
Episode overview
05, 2003
2 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 .. show full overview
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Black September Hijackings/ Lockerbie
Episode overview
12, 2003
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 .. show full overview
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The Assassination of JFK/Nixon's Last Day
Episode overview
19, 2003
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 .. show full overview
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Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission/Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
Episode overview
26, 2003
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 .. show full overview
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Chuck Yeager/Bluebird
Episode overview
03, 2003
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.