Duration: 30'08''
Yuri Gagarin's journey as the first man in space.
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S2E1: Challenger Disaster | Days That Shook the World
Documentaries examining famous air disasters, including the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster in 1986.
S2E1: Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg | Days That Shook the World
Documentaries examining famous air disasters, including the Hindenburg crash in 1937.
S2E10: Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn | Days That Shook the World
A British royal scandal: the trial and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn.
S2E10: The Abdication of Edward VIII | Days That Shook the World
A British royal scandal: the abdication of Edward VIII.
S2E2: The Christmas Truce | Days That Shook the World
An account of Christmas Day in 1914, when German and British soldiers initiated a spontaneous truce across the frontline.
S2E3: Attack on Pearl Harbor | Days That Shook the World
The 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, which changed world history.
S2E4: Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels | Days That Shook the World
The theft of the Crown Jewels on May 9, 1671.
S2E4: The Great Train Robbery | Days That Shook the World
The Great Train Robbery on August 8, 1963.
S2E5: Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal | Days That Shook the World
Assassination attempts by secret organizations, with Adolf Hitler as the intended victim.
S2E5: Wolf's Lair | Days That Shook the World
Assassination attempts by secret organizations, with Charles de Gaulle as the intended victim.
S2E6: Reach for the Stars: Trials of Galileo | Days That Shook the World
Galileo's ideas challenging views of the world.
S2E7: Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur | Days That Shook the World
Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the first discovery of a dino...
S2E7: Piltdown Man | Days That Shook the World
Using dramatized reconstructions, this program recalls the 'Piltdown Man' hoax in 1953.
S2E8: Oklahoma City bombing | Days That Shook the World
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Lockerbie disaster in 1988.
S2E8: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking ...
S2E9: Cold War Spies: 1960 U-2 incident | Days That Shook the World
This program focuses on the shooting down of the US U-2 spy plane in 1960.
S2E9: Spy swap of Abel, Pryor and Powers | Days That Shook the World
This program focuses on the exchange of pilot Gary Powers and Soviet spy Colonel Abel in 1962.
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Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khr...
4: Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 | History File
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader...
1: Deja Vu (1858-1961) | The Vietnam War
Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.
2: Iron Curtain: 1945-1947 | Cold War
The wartime allies demobilise - the United States enjoys its economic strength and resurgence while Britain and the rest of Europe is e...
4: Berlin: 1948-1949 | Cold War
By 1947, the United States placed as a high priority the revival of the German economy, an approach opposed by the Soviet Union. After the in...
9: The Wall: 1958-1963 | Cold War
West Germany, and West Berlin, become more affluent, prompting a surge of East Germans to cross the borders in Berlin, kept open under the ...
12: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khruschev | Twentieth Century History
The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...
14: Red Spring: 1960s | Cold War
Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...
3: Hell Come to Earth (January 1964-December 1965) | The Vietnam War
With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.
Cold War
Both the United States and the Soviet Union drifted apart after the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Russian Civil War and the Paris Peace Conference. Diplomatic and...
22: Star Wars: 1981-1988 | Cold War
Reagan's 1983 ''Evil Empire'' speech sets the tone for a more aggressive US posture against the Soviet Union, and the costly arms race is...
S1E5: The Fall of the Berlin Wall | Days That Shook the World
Exploring the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 from the perspective of a Checkpoint Charlie Stasi guard commander.
The Looking Glass War | Strange Days: Cold War Britain
Dominic Sandbrook examines the Cold War years, looking at the frontline of the conflict as consumerism was pitched aga...
Threads
Grim drama telling the story of a nuclear strike on Britain through the eyes of two families, tracing the events leading up to the War and the decade of devastation ...
11: Vietnam: 1954-1968 | Cold War
After losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the French leave Vietnam. A stream of refugees flee to the south after the Communist north institu...
16: Détente: 1969-1975
Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearful of a US-C...
2: Hungary 1956 | History File
Compilation of secondary schools programme about the Cold War, featuring Berlin Crisis, Hungarian Uprising, rise of Soviet leader Nikita Khrus...
3: Marshall Plan: 1947-1952 | Cold War
For both altruistic and self-serving purposes, the United States provides massive grants of aid to the countries of Europe in the form...
4: 1951 Korea | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields
Peter and Dan Snow, at the border between North and South Korea, tell of two key moments in the years of fighti...
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