Days That Shook the World (2003)
Days That Shook the World (2003)
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Plot.
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History.
The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
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Cast & Crew.

David Upshal
Producer / Producer / Executive Producer

Stephen Beckett
Narrator

Tim Smith
Mr. California

Paul Halter
Props

Jason Orr
Art Department Coordinator / Art Department Manager / Production Designer

Kate Woodman
Props

Aaron Marquette
Set Dresser

Tony Wilson
Art Department Assistant

Margaret Flett
Art Department Assistant

Andrew Fletcher
Production Design / Costume Design

James Shaughnessy
Art Direction

Emma Folkins
Art Department Coordinator

Renee Adams
Props

Steven Gray
Director of Photography

Malcolm Paris
Camera Operator

Tim Molema
Additional Camera / Assistant Camera

Andy Jackson
Director of Photography

Colin Godfrey
Director of Photography

Brian McDairmant
Director of Photography

Dirk Nel
Director of Photography

Simon Bedford
Camera Operator

Simon Fanthorpe
Camera Operator

Keith Wood
Camera Operator

Robin Riseley
Director of Photography

Ken Morse
Camera Operator

Amar Barn
Assistant Camera

Rachel Fermi
Still Photographer

Alexei Kulish
Additional Camera

Ed Lindsley
Assistant Camera

Alan Armstrong
Camera Operator

Joe Dyer
Director of Photography

Peter Thorn
Director of Photography

Lee Pulbrook
Director of Photography

Jon Wood
Director of Photography

David South
Additional Camera

Rupe Whiteman
Camera Operator / Associate Producer

Gary Clarke
Director of Photography

Georgia Court
Assistant Camera

Matthew Whiteman
Camera Operator / Director / Writer

Des Seal
Director of Photography

Ian Moss
Assistant Camera

Alan Doyle
Camera Operator

Colin Clarke
Director of Photography

Dan Rack
Additional Photography

Stephen Bennett
Additional Camera / Producer / Associate Producer

Elvis Barukcic
Still Photographer

Sandy Vooght
Makeup & Hair

Vanessa Alves
Makeup Artist

Karen Montgomery
Costume Design / Makeup & Hair

Mouse Cooke-Priest
Makeup & Hair

Melissaa Evans
Makeup & Hair

Sandra Kunad
Makeup & Hair

Shayme Mohamed Mohamed
Makeup & Hair

Lucy Morton
Makeup Artist

Mark Wallace
Costumer

Georgina Gebby
Assistant Makeup Artist

Cameron Doyle
Costume Design

Ellen Kreager
Wardrobe Coordinator

Charlie Jones
Costume Design

Nigel Egerton
Costume Design

Hala Mohamed Mohamed
Makeup & Hair

Valencia Sarmento
Makeup Artist

Lisa George
Makeup Artist

Caitlin Tanner
Makeup & Hair

Gloria Belz
Makeup Artist

Tina Young
Makeup & Hair

Denise Coombes
Wardrobe Supervisor

Vesna Trogrančić
Makeup Artist

Anna-Maria Camcelli
Makeup Artist

Lisa Stewart
Makeup & Hair

Claire Walkowiak
Makeup & Hair

Zekira Smajevic
Costume Design

Claire McAndrew
Makeup Artist

Amy Moorcroft
Makeup & Hair

Peter Dimmock
Thanks

James Nice
Thanks

Diane Oliver
Catering

Lorna Oliver
Catering

Audrey Whiting
Thanks

Nic Young
Director / Writer

Carl Hindmarch
Director / Writer

Paul Murton
Director

Paul Overton
Director / Writer

Matthew Lawson
First Assistant Director

Aiden Quinn
First Assistant Director

Alex Lay
Director / Writer

David Bartlett
Director

Dan Clifton
Director / Producer

Tanya Cheadle
Director / Writer

Richard Bond
Director / Writer

Srik Narayanan
Director / Writer

Angus Cameron
Director

Graham Holtom
Colorist

Nick Anderson
Online Editor

Ann Williams
Archival Footage Research

Christine Whittaker
Archival Footage Research / Archival Footage Coordinator

Steve Bergson
Archival Footage Coordinator

Rory Ferguson
Online Editor

Chris King
Editor

Phyllis Ironside
Editor

Mark Henson
Editor

Masha Oleneva
Archival Footage Coordinator / Archival Footage Research

David Gibson
Editor

Emily West
Editor

Michael Harrowes
Editor

Jim Hamilton
Editor

Jan Leman
Editor

Simon Greenwood
Editor

Susan Brand
Editor

Ross Bradley
Editor

Dermot O'Brien
Editor

Simon Barker
Editor

Jeffry Gordon
Gaffer

Tom Gork
Gaffer

Jamie Moreno
Gaffer

Dave de Haan
Gaffer

Mark Johnson
Electrician

Neil McDonald
Executive Producer

Shahana Meer
Head of Production

Mark Wright
Production Manager / Line Producer

Richard Bradley
Executive Producer

Adam Kemp
Executive Producer

Chris Kelly
Executive Producer

Stuart Dobbs
Production Coordinator

Aileen Kane
Production Manager

Kate Bareham
Production Manager

Dee Edmonds
Production Coordinator

Robin O'Sullivan
Researcher

Joanne Kneafsey
Production Coordinator

Paul Ashby
Production Coordinator

Bill Locke
Executive Producer

Claire Potter
Assistant Production Manager

Claire Smith
Production Manager

Anna Thomson
Associate Producer

Sophie Orde
Production Coordinator

Abigail Carr
Researcher

Kirsty Robb
Researcher

Lorna Sutton
Researcher

Katie Cochrane
Researcher

Jane Quigley
Producer / Executive Producer / Writer

Jolene Crawford
Producer's Assistant / Associate Producer

Jaine Hilston
Researcher

Kelda Deike
Associate Producer / Producer's Assistant

Graeme Walker
Production Runner / Researcher

Alice Stilgoe
Researcher

Magdy Rashidy
Location Manager

Tessa Gogol
Researcher

Gerard Costello
Associate Producer

Tom Bramley
Associate Producer

Francine Decoursey
Casting Director

George Pagliero
Associate Producer

Patsy Blades
Head of Production

Kate Bullions
Researcher

Angie Alexander
Production Assistant

Phil Mews
Production Coordinator

Amanda Burrell
Associate Producer

Ramiz Huremagic
Location Manager

Mat Marsters
Researcher

Patricia Burns
Researcher

James Lapsley
Production Designer

Claire Stewart
Researcher

Mo Bishop
Researcher

Dana Archip
Production Assistant

Satnam Authi
Researcher

Lucy Hetherington
Executive Producer

Laura Neitzel
Production Coordinator

Romaine Lancaster
Associate Producer

Matt Marsters
Researcher

Dave Gale
Music

Andy Bush
Music

George Foulgham
Sound Mixer

Billy Mahoney
Sound Mixer / Sound

Jon Stanton Dunn
Sound Mixer

Peter Brill
Sound

Alan Hill
Sound Recordist

Grant Lawson
Sound Recordist / Sound

Martin Hertel
Sound

Lee Edwards
Sound

Brett Lofthus
Sound

Tom Harrison
Sound

Chris Bruce
Sound Recordist

Martin Folkes
Sound

Simon Ware
Sound

Nigel Walker
Sound

Christophe Dieterle
Sound

Steve Tottingham
Sound

Dave Lindsay
Sound Recordist

Chris Wright
Sound

Chris Kerrigan
Sound

Nathan Black
Sound Recordist

Joseph Kepler
Sound Recordist

Graham Ross
Sound Recordist

Martin Wilson
Sound

Karl Rudsell
Sound

Peter Verrando
Sound

Tom Rimon
Sound

Andy Black
Sound Recordist

Andrew Marchant
Sound

Tom Gibb
Sound

Clayton Carpenter
Sound

Phil Bax
Sound

Jeff Hodd
Sound Recordist

Mikael Hasler
Sound

Danny McCullough
Sound

Dave Eden
Sound

Olivier Deslandes
Voice-over Artist

Paul Darrow
Voice-over Artist

Caroline Bernstein
Voice-over Artist

Joseph Goebbels
Self (archive footage)

Magda Goebbels
Self (archive footage)

Heinrich Himmler
Self (archive footage)

Simone Huber
(voice)

Goran Kostić
Gavrilo Princip (voice)

Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)

Jill Richardson
Magda Goebbels

Fredrick Ruth
Gottlieb Daimler (voice)

Jasmina Samssuli
(voice)

Tom Wesel
(voice)

Nelson Mandela
Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)

Stephen Beckett
Narrator (voice)

Michael Sun Lee
Yoshito Matsushige

Michael J. Reynolds
General J. T. Farrel

James Hicks
(voice)

Tom Hodgkins
(voice)

Eiji Kusuhara
(voice)

Patrick Poletti
(voice)

Jack Roberts
(voice)

James Bryce
Tsar Nicholas

Lauren C Moore
Grand Duchess

Winston Churchill
Self (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev
Self (archive footage)

Erich Honecker
Self (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin
Self (archive footage)

Victor Sobchak
(voice)

Diran Meghrebian
(voice)

Katya Kamotskaya
(voice)

Gregory Berkolaiko
(voice)

Ralph Kaiser
(voice)

Christiane Voss-Riehle
(voice)

Ruth Glaser
(voice)

James Howick
(voice)

Ross Waiton
(voice)

Keith Whickham
(voice)

Simon Coury
Jean-François Champollion

Cassie Raine
Lady Evelyn Herbert

Nigel Winder
Howard Carter

Katarina Burgess
(voice)

Mindy Lee
(voice)

Eugene Kotchetov
(voice)

Gary Parker
(voice)

Andrea Piovan
(voice)

George Shiskovsky
(voice)

Waleed Elgadi
PFLP Guerilla Soldier

Dougie Dunlop
(voice)

Sheridan McDonald
(voice)

Don Berger
Ollie Atkins

Bonnie Cochrane
Gayle Newman

David Ellis
Malcolm Kilduff

Dan Evers
Bill Newman

Ken Freehill
Richard Nixon

Grant James
Priest

Karl J. Morris
John F. Kennedy

Joe Stokes
Gerald Ford

Glenn Rogers
Dr. Malcolm Perry

Laura Yonker Myers
Jacqueline Kennedy

Mark Vargas
Manolo Sanchez

David Bedella
(voice)

Ian Porter
(voice)

Colin Stinton
(voice)

John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)

Chris Rogers
Oberkommandant / Joseph Sewald

Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson
Self (archive footage)

Gerald Ford
Self (archive footage)

Betty Ford
Self (archive footage)

Tim Perrin
Kemp

Daniel André Pageon
Jean Franchi

Peter Forbes
Brian Walpole

Olivia Fox
Carol Berman

Jeremy Lowe
Chuck Yeager

Kelly Cross
Capt. Jack Ridley

Adnan Tezer
Richard Frost

Abigail Leigh
Glennis Yeager

Kathryn Akin
Glennis Yeager (voice)

Adrian Fear
Guglielmo Marconi / Sir Edward Hulse

Leighton Haberfield
Flight Engineer

Oliver Burns
Herb Morrison

Mark McKerracher
Roger Boisjoly

Dickon Tolson
Charlie Nielsen

Grace Corrigan
Herself - astronaut (archive footage)

Christa McAuliffe
Herself - astronaut (archive footage)

Ron McNair
Himself - astronaut (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan
Himself (archive footage)

Francis Scobee
Himself - astronaut (archive footage)

Patrick Allen
Sir John French

Alan Booty
German Soldier

Stephan Erdman
Karl Meier

Rio Fanning
Horace Smith-Dorrien

Charles Hunt
Douglas Haig

Andrew Venning
Private

Patrick miller
Cordell Hull

Kazu takeda
Cmdr. Fuchida

Dustin Thomas
William Stafford

Peter Guinness
Narrator (voice)

Philip Brodie
Bruce Reynolds (as Phil Brodie)

Duncan Holmes
Frank Dewhurst

Cheryl Mackie
Miss Edwards

Michael Ryan
David Whitby

Sarah Anthony
(as Sarah Shaw)

Tim Smith
Roy James

Felix Wightman

Karl Howard

Darrin Stevens

Ivan Avramenko

Ricardo Agosti

Jacques Sandras-Leibovici

Alain Lefebvre

Kenneth Hughes

Tony Kent

Caesar Vargas

Nick Asheshov

Dzevad Vrabuc

Matthew Bozin

T. Michael Patton

Iona Holden

Ali Mohamed Gaber

John Basiulis

Sandra De Sousa

Ronald Fernee

Blair Willoughby

Boris Rogachevski

David Soar

Nigel Jackson

Pepi Pittl

Corey Marshall

Gareth Stringer

Jim Whitworth

Melanie Rodwell

Yudo Yada

Keita Yada

Harry Tomkins

Robert C. Smith

Jon Slisovich

Anthony Bowden

Maureen Nikani

Molly Housego

Jack Daniels

John Anderson

Admir Aladjuz

David Horton

Pierre Giraud

Carl Fenton

John McQuiston

Dustin Demri-Burns

Lee Wiginton

Dmitri Vakulov

Weetus Cren

Hans Kuhn

Claudia Balsters

Marina Novikova

Kevin Bell

Rodney Kageyama

Ben Healey

Sean Curtis-Ward

Verna Aldridge

Robert Hatchett

Leroy Emerson

Mirza Tanović

Hannah Northedge

Barry Porter

Eddie Randall

Darren Lawrence

Faud Conroy

Adam Long

Brian Palatucci

Peter Coward

John Wallick

Lucy Perkins

Frazer Douglas

John Jones

Anne Mitchell

Bronagh Waugh

Tamuna Cheishvilli

Joerg Stadler

Helmut Jacob

Tom Farr

Tatyana Bugajev

Brent Kanaster

Michael Cunningham

Philip Dunlap

James Donoher

Simon Scholes

Kurt Kleinmann

Jack Wright

Mark Dickson Deans

Gurmil Singh Dahrmi

Louis Alsamori

Aere Adel

David Payne

Max Harvey

Patrick Morton

Robin Hanson

Mel Williamson

Andrew Taylor

Alexei Palamarenko

Niel McCormack

Rafael Haider

K Herzeliya

Crystal Akie Hanano

Pip Utton

Salih Palo

Natalie Walter

Benjamin Till

Steve Roberts

P.J. McCarthy

Amy Lynn Church

Robert Whittington
Media.

Details.
Release DateNovember 1, 2003
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes32
Running Time1h
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
world history
Scripted
Wiki.
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003 and lasted for three series. Each 60-minute episode explores either one or two significant events from history through a combination of dramatisation, archive footage, and eyewitness accounts.
It was produced by Lion Television and distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. It has been broadcast on the BBC, ABC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History.
The BBC released all three series on DVD and published a book written by Hugo Davenport to accompany the first series.
The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
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