Days That Shook the World: Season 1
Episodes
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
· 50 min
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
The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
· 50 min
4 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 ca
Hiroshima
· 50 min
This 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 d
The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
· 50 min
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
Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
· 50 min
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 dr
Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
· 50 min
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
First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
· 50 min
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 mo