Days That Shook the World (2003)
- Genre: Documentary
- First Air Date: 2003-11-01
- Last Air Date: 2006-04-22
- Total Seasons: 3
- Total Episodes: 32
- Status: Ended
- Episode Runtime: 60 min.
- Network: BBC Four
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.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II / The Death of Diana | 2003-09-10 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler | 2003-09-17 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela | 2003-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Hiroshima | 2003-10-01 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall | 2003-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel | 2003-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone | 2003-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Fermi / Chernobyl | 2003-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie | 2003-11-12 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Assassination of JFK / Nixon's Last Day | 2003-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight | 2003-11-26 | 60 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Chuck Yeager / Bluebird | 2003-12-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg / Challenger Disaster | 2004-09-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | The Christmas Truce | 2004-10-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn / The Abdication of Edward VIII | 2004-10-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Attack on Pearl Harbor | 2004-10-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels / The Great Train Robbery | 2004-10-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair | 2004-11-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | Reach for the Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight | 2004-11-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur / Piltdown Man | 2004-11-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln / Oklahoma City Bombing | 2004-12-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Cold War Spies: Gary Powers / Rudolf Abel | 2004-12-13 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean / The Execution of the Rosenbergs | 2005-10-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Rule of the Gun: The O.K. Corral / Saint Valentine's Day Massacre | 2005-10-27 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds / Hitler Diaries | 2005-11-03 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | The War to End All Wars: The End of World War I | 2005-11-10 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | Let Freedom Rise: The Boston Tea Party / The Independence of India | 2005-11-17 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Battle for the Holy City: The Six-Day War | 2005-11-24 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | The Battle of Midway | 2005-12-01 | 60 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Road to Revolution: The Execution of Ceauşescu / The Iranian Revolution | 2005-12-08 | 60 min |
| Production | David Upshal | Producer |
