Days That Shook the World Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Disaster in the Skies: The Hindenburg/Challenger Disaster

The story of the crash of the great airship Hindenburg and the events leading up to the Challenger space shuttle disaster including the efforts of several engineers to prevent the launch of this flight.

Episode 2

The Christmas Truce

Recreates the temporary cessation of hostilities in the trenches of the Western Front in December 1914, including the famous football match between the British and German troops, and the repercussions among the generals.

Episode 3

Attack on Pearl Harbor

60 mins

On-going series aired internationally on the History Channel. Program highlights a pivitol event in history from the perspective of those who witnessed it.

Episode 4

Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels/The Great Train Robbery

Mon, Nov 1, 2004

The story of the theft of over £2million in bank notes from a night mail train in England in 1963 - the biggest theft in world history at that point. The dramatization draws upon the touching story behind the architect of the robbery, Bruce Reynolds.

Episode 5

Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal/Wolf's Lair

22 August 1962 and 20 July 1944 Two assassination attempts that, if successful, might have changed the course of history: the Algerian Secret Army's attempt to shoot President de Gaulle of France and Colonel von Stauffenberg's planting of a bomb under Hitler's desk.

Episode 6

Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo/Yuri Gagarin's Flight

12 April 1633 and 12 April 1961 Two days on which science challenged the conventional view of our place in the universe: April 12, 1633 when Galileo stands trial for heresy for claiming the sun and not the Earth is the centre of the known universe, and exactly 328 years to the day later (1961) when Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin steps from the Earth into space.

Episode 7

Dinosaurs & Duplicity

Country physician Gideon Mantle is an aspiring amateur geologist but it's his wife Mary that finds the first Iguanadon tooth, later considered the first evidence of plant eating Dinosaurs discovered in Great Britain. Contrasted with this tale is the uncovering of the boldest scientific hoax in British scientific history, the counterfeiting of the Piltdown Man. Long considered the missing link proving Darwin's theories.

Episode 8

Terror: Made in America - Assassination of Abraham Lincoln & Oklahoma City Bombing

Mon, Dec 6, 200430 mins

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth and the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVay are profiled.

Episode 9

Cold War Spies

The shooting down of a top secret spy plane ultimately led to a dramatic spy swap on a Berlin bridge. Two Cold War tales are told in this look at a time of international tension and suspicion.

Episode 10

Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII

60 mins

Documentary on the relationship between Anne Bolyn and Edward VIII and his relationship with American Wallis Simpson.