Days That Shook the World: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Days That Shook the World Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean/The Execution of the Rosenbergs
Oct 20, 2005
19 June 1953 and 25 May 1951 The differing fates of the most famous Soviet spies are explored as, in the USA, the Rosenbergs face the electric chair for passing atomic secrets to
Rule of the Gun: The O.K. Corral/Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
Apr 22, 2006
26 October 1881 and 14 February 1929 From the wild west and the mob-run city come two stories that have entered American mythology: the gunfight in the obscure mining town of Tome
Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds/Hitler Diaries
Nov 3, 2005
30 October 1938 and 24 April 1983 Over a million radio listeners panic thinking the nation was being attacked by Martians in Orsen Welles 'War of the Worlds' and one of the world'
The War to End All Wars: The End of World War I
Nov 10, 2005
11 November 1918 This dramatic story of the final days of World War 1 finds soldiers still fighting and Germany turning to anarchy. Meanwhile, in a wood in France, hostile negotia
Let Freedom Rise: The Boston Tea Party/The Independence of India
Nov 17, 2005
6 December 1773 and 14 August 1947 The catalyst and repercussions of freedom from colonial rule are explored in the American 'patriots' raid on a British ship and the web of devas
Battle For The Holy City: The Six-Day War
Nov 24, 2005
7 June 1967 By the third day of a six day war, Israeli forces have destroyed egypt's armies in the Sinai, captured the West Bank and seized the Old City of Jurusalem. But the euph
The Battle of Midway
Dec 1, 2005
4 June 1942 At a tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the massed forces of the US and Japanese fleets meet for a decisive showdown. In the space pf just four minutes, the entire cours