Days That Shook the World
Season 1, Episode 5: The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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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.
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