Bibliograph

Days that shook the world, a Lion Television production for BBC in association with The History Channel, season 1

Type

Label

Days that shook the world, a Lion Television production for BBC in association with The History Channel, season 1

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated

Main title

Days that shook the world

Oclc number

232551269

Responsibility statement

a Lion Television production for BBC in association with The History Channel

Runtime

770

Summary

Through dramatic reconstruction, eyewitness accounts, and archive footage, each episode pieces together the stories of the moments in history-- human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs, and calamitous events that have profoundly affected the world

Table Of Contents

Disc 1. Pilot: First in flight: the Wright Brothers and the Moon landing ; The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the death of Diana ; The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and the death of Hitler ; The assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the release of Nelson Mandela ; Hiroshima ; The murder of the Romanovs and the fall of the Berlin Wall ; Kristallnacht and the birth of Israel -- Disc 2. Tutankhamun's tomb and the Rosetta Stone ; The first nuclear reaction and Chernobyl ; Black September and Lockerbie ; The assassination of JFK and the resignation of Nixon ; Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission and the Concorde's first transatlantic flight ; Chuck Yeager and Bluebird

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action

Classification

Contributor