7.0/1018 votes#1 - The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/2003
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Director: Tanya Cheadle
Writer: Tanya Cheadle
7.9/109 votes#2 - The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired Unknown
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 brought about the end of Adolf Hitler and World War 2.
Director: Richard Bond
Writer: Richard Bond
8.2/1027 votes#3 - The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired Unknown
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 cause.
Director: Srik Narayanan
Writer: Srik Narayanan
6.5/1012 votes#4 - Hiroshima
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired Unknown
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 decision-making process reflecting America's real fear that the Japanese would never give up, Japanese eyewitness accounts of the tragedy in Hiroshima, diaries written on board Enola Gay, and the personal testimony of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the man who led the mission so secret not even his crew knew the enormity of what they were doing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1026 votes#5 - The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired Unknown
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 Berlin Wall symbolised the collapse of the ideology.
Director: Paul Murton
Writer: N/A
7.8/1016 votes#6 - Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired Unknown
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 dream of a Jewish homeland becomes a reality and the state of Israel is Born.
Director: Nic Young
Writer: Nic Young
6.9/1012 votes#7 - Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired Unknown
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 later, Howard Carter reads the name on a tomb and makes an amazing discovery.
Director: Carl Hindmarch
Writer: Carl Hindmarch
7.1/1013 votes#8 - First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired Unknown
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 most exciting scientific breakthroughs ever lead to the disaster that the world had dreaded?
Director: Paul Murton
Writer: Jane Quigley
7.0/1012 votes#9 - Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/2004
In September 1970 Terrorists hijacked a number of jetliners, flew them to Jordan and kept numerous hostages to enforce their demands. In December 1988 Pan Am flight 103 was blown from the sky killing all aboard and a number of Lockerbie Scotland residents.
Director: Paul Overton
Writer: Paul Overton
7.4/1012 votes#10 - The Assassination of JFK / Nixon's Last Day
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/30/2003
22 November 1963 and 8 August 1974. No one could have dreamed or anticipated the seismic shocks America suffered in the 20th century with the assassination of its youngest-ever leader and the disgrace and expulsion of its most successful election winner.
Director: David Bartlett
Writer: N/A
6.6/1017 votes#11 - Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/22/2004
It is 19th October 1977 and Concorde taxis onto the runway at Toulouse Airport. Onboard, the crew are preparing for an historic day - the first supersonic test flight to New York. At JFK airport, protestors are waiting with a hostile welcome, but for the Concorde team and the French and British governments it is a moment that represents the end of an exhausting struggle.
Director: Alex Lay
Writer: Alex Lay
7.5/109 votes#12 - Chuck Yeager & Bluebird
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/7/2004
14 October 1947 and 4 January 1967. Compelled by a sense of patriotic duty and driven by incredible bravery, 20 years separate the determined efforts of two mens aim to become the fastest men on the planet.
Director: Matthew Whiteman
Writer: Matthew Whiteman
The Best Episodes of Days That Shook the World Season 1
Every episode of Days That Shook the World Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Days That Shook the World Season 1!
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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Four
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana" is the best rated episode of "Days That Shook the World" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by Tanya Cheadle and written by Tanya Cheadle, it aired on 11/1/2003. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler".