Days That Shook the World

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.

All Episodes - Season 1

Episode 1

The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana

Episode 2

The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler

Episode 3

The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela

Episode 4

Hiroshima

Episode 5

The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall

Episode 6

Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel

Episode 7

Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Episode 8

Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie

Episode 9

First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl

Episode 10

The Assassination of JFK / The Resignation of Nixon

Episode 11

Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight

Episode 12

Faster than Sound: Chuck Yeager / Donald Campbell