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Wednesday, 15 November 2006

Documentary series outlining key dates in world history

Days That Shook the World was a series of one-hour programmes that showed dramatic movie-like reconstructions of various dates in history. Each programme was split into two half hours that showed reconstructions of two different dates that were connected in some way.

The reconstructions made extensive use of background music and split-screens in a film-like way. Actors played the key historical figures, but they spoke very little in the actual scenes. Instead, the characters would mainly communicate with the viewer by means of voiceovers of actual quotes made by the person that they were portraying. Usually, the events that unfolded over the course of the day in question would be explained by the programme's narrator, Peter Guinness.

The first series was broadcast in 2003 and consisted of the following episodes. Sometimes, the hour long programmes were split into half hour programmes that followed one individual day in history. The following lists show each individual day that appeared in the programme.

  • The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • The death of Hitler
  • The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
  • The death of Princess Diana
  • The assassination of Martin Luther King
  • The release of Nelson Mandela
  • The first flight of Concorde
  • Marconi's first transatlantic radio message
  • The assassination of the Romanovs
  • The fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Kristallnacht
  • The founding of the state of Israel
  • The first atomic reaction
  • The Chernobyl disaster
  • The Black September attacks
  • The Lockerbie bombing
  • The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
  • The deciphering of hieroglyphics using the Rosetta Stone
  • The assassination of JFK
  • The expulsion of Nixon
  • The first super sonic flight
  • Donald Campbell's last record attempt

The second series was broadcast in 2004.

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