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Days That Shook the World (2003)

Documentary · History

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.

IMDb rating
7.4 (267 votes)
Seasons
3
Language
EN
Type
TV series

Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 3 seasons indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (2003)

7.23 avg 13 episodes 7.1 → 6.9

Ep 1: 7.1 · 19 votesEp 2: 7.7 · 11 votesEp 3: 8.3 · 29 votesEp 4: 6.8 · 12 votesEp 5: 7.0 · 29 votesEp 6: 7.8 · 17 votesEp 7: 6.9 · 13 votesEp 8: 7.1 · 14 votesEp 9: 6.9 · 14 votesEp 10: 7.5 · 12 votesEp 11: 6.6 · 18 votesEp 12: 7.4 · 10 votesEp 13: 6.9 · 12 votes
Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Wright Brothers First Flight/Apollo Moon Landing7.119
2The Coronation/The Death of Diana7.711
3The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand/The Death of Hitler8.329
4The Assassination of Rev Martin Luther King/The Release of Nelson Mandela6.812
5Hiroshima7.029
6The Romanovs/The Berlin Wall7.817
7Kristallnacht/The Birth of Israel6.913
8Tutankhamun's Tomb/Deciphering the Rosetta Stone7.114
9First Nuclear Reaction/Chernobyl6.914
10Black September Hijackings/Lockerbie7.512
11The Assassination of JFK/The Resignation of Nixon6.618
12Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission/Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight7.410
13Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager and Donald Campbell6.912

Season 2 (2004)

7.66 avg 9 episodes 7.4 → 6.9 50 min avg

Ep 1: 7.4 · 16 votesEp 2: 8.0 · 9 votesEp 3: 6.9 · 21 votesEp 4: 8.0 · 11 votesEp 6: 8.3 · 12 votesEp 7: 7.8 · 8 votesEp 8: 7.4 · 16 votesEp 9: 8.2 · 8 votesEp 10: 6.9 · 16 votes
Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Disaster in the Skies: The Hindenburg/Challenger Disaster7.416
2The Christmas Truce8.09
3Attack on Pearl Harbor6.921
4Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels/The Great Train Robbery8.011
6Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo/Yuri Gagarin's Flight8.312
7Dinosaurs & Duplicity7.88
8Terror: Made in America - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln & Oklahoma City Bombing7.416
9Cold War Spies8.28
10Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII6.916

Season 3 (2004)

7.87 avg 9 episodes 7.9 → 8.3 60 min avg

Ep 1: 7.9 · 13 votesEp 2: 8.5 · 14 votesEp 3: 7.2 · 15 votesEp 4: 7.4 · 10 votesEp 5: 8.1 · 8 votesEp 6: 7.1 · 9 votesEp 7: 8.9 · 16 votesEp 8: 7.4 · 10 votesEp 10: 8.3 · 8 votes
Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1The Cost of Betrayal: The Defection of Burgess & MacLean/The Execution of the Rosenbergs7.913
2Rule of the Gun: The O.K. Corral/Saint Valentine's Day Massacre8.514
3Fact or Fiction: The War of the Worlds and the Hitler Diaries7.215
4The War to End All Wars7.410
5Let Freedom Ring: The Boston Tea Party/The Independence of India8.18
6Battle for the Holy City7.19
7The Battle of Midway8.916
8The Road to Revolution: The Execution of Ceaucescu/The Iranian Revolution7.410
10Reach for the Stars: Trials of Galileo/Yuri Gagarin's Flight8.38