Through dramatic reconstructions, eye-witness accounts and archive footage, each episode in the Days That Shook the World BBC TV series pieces together the thrilling stories of the landmarks of our time; the moments in history - human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs and calamitous events - that have profoundly affected the way the world thinks and acts.

A look back at 56 of the most significant days in modern history - hour by hour, as the events unfolded. As the clock ticks, the events of the day climax, and we learn just what happened and how the day affected the course of history. 

All 3 Seasons included - episodes:

The Wright Brothers
Apollo 11's Moon Landing
The Coronation of Elizabeth II
The Death of Diana
The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
The Death of Adolf Hitler
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
The Release of Nelson Mandela
Hiroshima
The Murder of the Romanovs
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Kristallnacht
The Birth of Israel
Tutankhamun's Tomb
Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
Black September Hijackings
Lockerbie
First Nuclear Reaction
Chernobyl
The Assassination of JFK
The Resignation of Nixon
Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission
Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight 
Chuck Yeager
Donald Campbell
The Hindenburg
Challenger Disaster
The Christmas Truce
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Theft of the Crown Jewels
The Great Train Robbery
The Real Day of the Jackal
Wolf's Lair
Trials of Galileo
Yuri Gagarin's Flight
Discovery of the First Dinosaur
Piltdown Man
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Oklahoma City Bombing
Gary Powers
Rudolf Abel
The Execution of Anne Boleyn
The Abdication of Edward VIII
The Defection of Burgess & MacLean
The Execution of the Rosenbergs
The O.K. Corral
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The War of the Worlds
Hitler Diaries
The End of World War I 
The Boston Tea Party
The Independence of India
Battle For The Holy City: The Six-Day War
The Battle of Midway
The Execution of Ceau