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
Kate Woodman
Props
Jason Orr
Art Department Manager / Art Department Coordinator / Production Designer
'Jungle Jim' Shaughnessy
Art Direction
Aaron Marquette
Set Dresser
Emma Folkins
Art Department Coordinator
Tony Wilson
Art Department Assistant
Renee Adams
Props
Margaret Flett
Art Department Assistant
Andrew Fletcher
Production Design / Costume Design
Steven Gray
Director of Photography
Malcolm Paris
Camera Operator
Tim Molema
Assistant Camera / Additional Camera
Brian McDairmant
Director of Photography
Andy Jackson
Director of Photography
Colin Godfrey
Director of Photography
Simon Bedford
Camera Operator
Dan Rack
Additional Photography
Colin Clarke
Director of Photography
Stephen Bennett
Additional Camera / Producer / Associate Producer
Amar Barn
Assistant Camera
Gary Clarke
Director of Photography
Georgia Court
Assistant Camera
Elvis Barukcic
Still Photographer
Simon Fanthorpe
Camera Operator
Alan Doyle
Camera Operator
Lee Pulbrook
Director of Photography
Ian Moss
Assistant Camera
Robin Riseley
Director of Photography
Ken Morse
Camera Operator
Alan Armstrong
Camera Operator
Matthew Whiteman
Camera Operator / Director / Writer
Ed Lindsley
Assistant Camera
Peter Thorn
Director of Photography
Alexei Kulish
Additional Camera
Dirk Nel
Director of Photography
Joe Dyer
Director of Photography
Rupe Whiteman
Camera Operator / Associate Producer
Keith Wood
Camera Operator
David South
Additional Camera
Des Seal
Director of Photography
Jon Wood
Director of Photography
Rachel Fermi
Still Photographer
Sandy Vooght
Makeup & Hair
Vanessa Alves
Makeup Artist
Karen Montgomery
Makeup & Hair / Costume Design
Claire McAndrew
Makeup Artist
Lisa Stewart
Makeup & Hair
Vesna Trogrančić
Makeup Artist
Nigel Egerton
Costume Design
Shayme Mohamed Mohamed
Makeup & Hair
Amy Moorcroft
Makeup & Hair
Ellen Kreager
Wardrobe Coordinator
Tina Young
Makeup & Hair
Georgina Gebby
Assistant Makeup Artist
Cameron Doyle
Costume Design
Claire Walkowiak
Makeup & Hair
Mark Wallace
Costumer
Lisa George
Makeup Artist
Denise Coombes
Wardrobe Supervisor
Zekira Smajevic
Costume Design
Charlie Jones
Costume Design
Lucy Morton
Makeup Artist
Mouse Cooke-Priest
Makeup & Hair
Melissaa Evans
Makeup & Hair
Valencia Sarmento
Makeup Artist
Anna-Maria Camcelli
Makeup Artist
Hala Mohamed Mohamed
Makeup & Hair
Gloria Belz
Makeup Artist
Caitlin Tanner
Makeup & Hair
Sandra Kunad
Makeup & Hair
Diane Oliver
Catering
Peter Dimmock
Thanks
James Nice
Thanks
Audrey Whiting
Thanks
Lorna Oliver
Catering
Paul Murton
Director
Nic Young
Director / Writer
Carl Hindmarch
Director / Writer
Alex Lay
Director / Writer
Dan Clifton
Director / Producer
Tanya Cheadle
Director / Writer
Richard Bond
Director / Writer
Angus Cameron
Director
David Bartlett
Director
Matthew Lawson
First Assistant Director
Aiden Quinn
First Assistant Director
Paul Overton
Director / Writer
Srik Narayanan
Director / Writer
Graham Holtom
Colorist
Nick Anderson
Online Editor
Ann Williams
Archival Footage Research
Christine Whittaker
Archival Footage Coordinator / Archival Footage Research
Rory Ferguson
Online Editor
Steve Bergson
Archival Footage Coordinator
Mark Henson
Editor
Chris King
Editor
Phyllis Ironside
Editor
Masha Oleneva
Archival Footage Research / Archival Footage Coordinator
Emily West
Editor
Ross Bradley
Editor
Dermot O'Brien
Editor
Michael Harrowes
Editor
Susan Brand
Editor
Simon Barker
Editor
Simon Greenwood
Editor
Jim Hamilton
Editor
David Gibson
Editor
Jan Leman
Editor
Dave de Haan
Gaffer
Jeffry Gordon
Gaffer
Jamie Moreno
Gaffer
Mark Johnson
Electrician
Tom Gork
Gaffer
Neil McDonald
Executive Producer
Shahana Meer
Head of Production
Mark Wright
Production Manager / Line Producer
Richard Bradley
Executive Producer
Adam Kemp
Executive Producer
Stuart Dobbs
Production Coordinator
Chris Kelly
Executive Producer
Aileen Kane
Production Manager
Kate Bareham
Production Manager
Robin O'Sullivan
Researcher
Dee Edmonds
Production Coordinator
Joanne Kneafsey
Production Coordinator
Kirsty Robb
Researcher
Abigail Carr
Researcher
Sophie Orde
Production Coordinator
Claire Potter
Assistant Production Manager
Anna Thomson
Associate Producer
Paul Ashby
Production Coordinator
Katie Cochrane
Researcher
Lorna Sutton
Researcher
Claire Smith
Production Manager
Bill Locke
Executive Producer
Jolene Crawford
Producer's Assistant / Associate Producer
Kelda Deike
Producer's Assistant / Associate Producer
Graeme Walker
Researcher / Production Runner
Jaine Hilston
Researcher
Jane Quigley
Producer / Executive Producer / Writer
Patsy Blades
Head of Production
Phil Mews
Production Coordinator
Amanda Burrell
Associate Producer
Laura Neitzel
Production Coordinator
Tom Bramley
Associate Producer
Ramiz Huremagic
Location Manager
Matt Marsters
Researcher
Satnam Authi
Researcher
Romaine Lancaster
Associate Producer
Angie Alexander
Production Assistant
Gerard Costello
Associate Producer
Lucy Hetherington
Executive Producer
Mat Marsters
Researcher
Francine Decoursey
Casting Director
Patricia Burns
Researcher
Alice Stilgoe
Researcher
George Pagliero
Associate Producer
Kate Bullions
Researcher
Dana Archip
Production Assistant
James Lapsley
Production Designer
Magdy Rashidy
Location Manager
Claire Stewart
Researcher
Mo Bishop
Researcher
Tessa Gogol
Researcher
Dave Gale
Music
Andy Bush
Music
George Foulgham
Sound Mixer
Billy Mahoney
Sound Mixer / Sound
Jon Stanton Dunn
Sound Mixer
Grant Lawson
Sound Recordist / Sound
Peter Brill
Sound
Alan Hill
Sound Recordist
Martin Folkes
Sound
Graham Ross
Sound Recordist
Steve Tottingham
Sound
Chris Wright
Sound
Simon Ware
Sound
Clayton Carpenter
Sound
Chris Kerrigan
Sound
Lee Edwards
Sound
Chris Bruce
Sound Recordist
Joseph Kepler
Sound Recordist
Brett Lofthus
Sound
Martin Wilson
Sound
Andy Black
Sound Recordist
Jeff Hodd
Sound Recordist
Dave Lindsay
Sound Recordist
Christophe Dieterle
Sound
Danny McCullough
Sound
Mikael Hasler
Sound
Phil Bax
Sound
Tom Harrison
Sound
Martin Hertel
Sound
Tom Rimon
Sound
Andrew Marchant
Sound
Nathan Black
Sound Recordist
Karl Rudsell
Sound
Nigel Walker
Sound
Tom Gibb
Sound
Peter Verrando
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)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Chris Rogers
Oberkommandant / Joseph Sewald
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
Caesar Vargas
Dayton Knoll
James Donaher
Karl Howard
Ronald Fernee
Leon Majkenda
Lee Wiginton
John Basiulis
Joerg Stadler
Helmut Jacob
Nick Asheshov
Yudo Yada
John Kanaster
Dzevad Vrabuc
Bud Bell
Collins Nugkana
T. Michael Patton
Terry McGarr
Tony Kent
Alain Lefebvre
Jacques Sandras-Leibovici
Ricardo Agosti
Matthew Bozin
Ivan Avramenko
Ali Mohamed Gaber
Sandra De Sousa
Kenneth Hughes
Darrin Stevens
Jon Ree
Hannah Northedge
Gareth Stringer
Paul Mossop
Lee Jones
Stephen Armstrong
Lutz Michael
John Peters
William Bruno
Richard Arbit
Jameel Khoury
Corey Marshall
Pepi Pittl
Nigel Jackson
David Soar
Boris Rogachevski
Blair Willoughby
John McQuiston
Carl Fenton
Pierre Giraud
David Horton
Admir Aladjuz
John Anderson
Jack Daniels
Molly Housego
Maureen Nikani
Anthony Bowden
Jon Slisovich
Robert C. Smith
Harry Tomkins
Keita Yada
Melanie Rodwell
Patrick Morton
Mirza Tanović
Leroy Emerson
Robert Hatchett
Verna Aldridge
Sean Curtis-Ward
Ben Healey
Rodney Kageyama
Kevin Bell
Marina Novikova
Claudia Balsters
Hans Kuhn
Weetus Cren
Dmitri Vakulov
Dustin Demri-Burns
Philip Gaudin
Hugh Hayes
John Mannings
Nejil Negah
Mary Mearing
Michael Beaty
Eddie Randall
Barry Porter
Jim Whitworth
Max Harvey
Peter Coward
Ralph Brutasis
Rienhard Forcher
Penny Barral
Emily Sharp
Richard Knight
Kevin Krago
Bafo Bam
Tony Donaldson
James Donoher
Philip Dunlap
Michael Cunningham
Brent Kanaster
Tatyana Bugajev
Tom Farr
Tamuna Cheishvilli
Bronagh Waugh
Anne Mitchell
John Jones
Frazer Douglas
Lucy Perkins
Felix Wightman
Iona Holden
David Payne
Aere Adel
Louis Alsamori
Gurmil Singh Dahrmi
Mark Dickson Deans
Jack Wright
Kurt Kleinmann
Simon Scholes
Samantha Scholes
William Hall
Kevin Hosier
Lyle Strader
Jack Burris
Corey Johnson
Robert Whittington
Amy Lynn Church
P.J. McCarthy
Steve Roberts
Benjamin Till
Natalie Walter
Salih Palo
Pip Utton
Crystal Akie Hanano
K Herzeliya
Rafael Haider
Niel McCormack
Alexei Palamarenko
Andrew Taylor
Mel Williamson
Robin Hanson
John Wallick
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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