Season 1
(2003)
Cast
Episodes
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II & The Death of Diana 0.0
November 1, 2003
The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand / The Death of Hitler 0.0
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28 June 1914 and April 1945. The Story Behind two pistol shots: the single bullet, fired by a young Serb nationalist th…
The Assassination of Martin Luther King / The Release of Nelson Mandela 0.0
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4 April 1968 and February 1990. How two men - both intellectuals and determined opposers of racial oppression - came to…
Hiroshima 2.0
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This episode dramatises the minute by minute events leading up to the world's first ever atomic bombing. Based on extra…
The Murder of the Romanovs / The Fall of the Berlin Wall 0.0
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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 monarc…
Kristallnacht / The Birth of Israel 0.0
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9 November 1938 and 14 May 1948. Just ten years after the Nazis openly attacked Jews and their property - a huge step o…
Tutankhamun's Tomb / Deciphering the Rosetta Stone 0.0
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26 November 1922 and 17 September 1822. Two days that brought ancient Egypt dramatically to life. In 1822, Jean-Francoi…
First Nuclear Reaction / Chernobyl 0.0
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2 December 1942 and 26 April 1986. The first controlled nuclear chain reaction heralded the atomic age, but Chernobyl's…
Black September Hijackings / Lockerbie 0.0
November 5, 2004
In September 1970 Terrorists hijacked a number of jetliners, flew them to Jordan and kept numerous hostages to enforce …
The Assassination of JFK / Nixon's Last Day 0.0
October 30, 2003
22 November 1963 and 8 August 1974. No one could have dreamed or anticipated the seismic shocks America suffered in the…
Marconi's First Transatlantic Radio Transmission / Concorde's First Transatlantic Flight 0.0
January 22, 2004
It is 19th October 1977 and Concorde taxis onto the runway at Toulouse Airport. Onboard, the crew are preparing for an …
Chuck Yeager & Bluebird 0.0
January 7, 2004
14 October 1947 and 4 January 1967. Compelled by a sense of patriotic duty and driven by incredible bravery, 20 years s…